真的新聞
新聞是真的，提案的議員和法案名稱是Joe Lieberman, a repeat offender on rights versus regulation, in a bill called Protecting Cyberspace as a National Asset Act of 2010。不過大意並非只是單純封鎖互連網（像中國目前這樣），而是為了反恐如果狀況緊急時可以關閉（大意）網路的核心協定，如dns（domain name system網域名稱系統），因為美國掌握多數核心網路通訊協定。節錄如下，Unfortunately, too much of the core of the internet resides in the US - let's put it this way, they cannot shut down machines in Australia, but they can completely isolate us and shut down certain core functions like the DNS ... they can render the internet fairly useless for the rest of the world," he（One of Australia's top communications experts, University of Sydney associate professor Bjorn Landfeldt） said.
