*I like the simplicity and clarity of this Feinstein Burr proposal. It's about asserting state power, flat out. If you really, truly want to assert the rule of national law over all electronics in your territory, of course you have to ban Internet browsers. To eliminate a transnational cyberspace, you've got to create a Chinese Great Firewall, only much more so.
*That's not impossible. China is the existence proof. If the US Senate is gonna become the ultimate arbiter for US citizens because that is the rule of law in a democratic republic, hey, have at it. See if that policy gets votes. Any nation that builds walls with Mexico could wall off the Internet. Because the Internet's like Mexico only much, much more so.
*It's no use pretending that math won't allow it and geeks can't possibly do it. That's like pretending that the NSA doesn't exist. It's like pretending that Google, Apple, Facebook, Amazon and Microsoft would be bitterly unhappy to eliminate the Internet and replace it with five legally-regulated silos. Of course the Stacks could do that, it would be a computational oligopoly. It would severely damage some global market opportunities, but it would make all kinds of commercial, legal and military sense.
https://www.justsecurity.org/30740/feinstein-burr-bill-bans-browser/
*The "Compliance With Court Orders Act," currently under discussion.
