Internet kill switch
An Internet Kill Switch is a concept to the Internet or parts of it in terms of an emergency stop button ( English kill switch to shut down). In the event of threats to public safety , the Internet and mobile telephony should be interrupted. In contrast to the German Access Difficulty Act , in such scenarios not only the DNS server should be switched off or reprogrammed, but the data lines should be "genuinely" interrupted. For example, Egypt had the providers shut down the BGP routers in 2011 so that there was no longer any physical regular way for users to switch data lines via detours. Since the Internet is a complex data network with an extensive infrastructure, “kill switch” is just the generic term for different concepts with different effects. Another possibility would be to separate the main transmission lines ( backbones ).
On May 4, 2015, representatives of the UN , the OSCE , the Organization of American States (OAS) and the African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights (ACHPR) issued a joint statement in Riga against the excessive restriction of freedom of expression in crisis situations.
On January 11, 2016, the United States Supreme Court declined to hear a complaint from the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) seeking to compel the United States Department of Homeland Security to provide details of preparations to shutdown the Internet and cell phones to publish.
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Individual evidence
- ↑ Harald Weiss: Telephone and Internet providers have to obey. chip.de, January 31, 2011
- ↑ Internet kill switch? Who's Got the Keys? on the ICANN website
- ^ Joint declaration on freedom of expression and responses to conflict situation.
- ↑ Derrick Broze: The US Government has on internet kill switch - and it's none of your business. Mint Press News, January 14, 2015, accessed November 19, 2016.