Jim Harper, director of information policy studies at the free-market Cato Institute and a member of a Homeland Security advisory panel, says that supporters of the bill have yet to make the argument that such governmental emergency powers will do more good than harm.

„They recognize that a total Internet kill switch is totally unacceptable,“ Harper said today. „A smaller Internet kill switch, or a series of kill switches, is also unacceptable…How does this make cybersecurity better? They have no answer.“