The Internet Protection Act of 2013

A BILL

To prohibit the federal government and all agencies and employeeds of the federal government, including any element of the intelligence community, from any act which limits or prevents, directly or indirectly, the internet access of any group, organization, or movement, composed of US citizens, or individual citizen of the United States or her territories or protectorates, or of the operation of the internet itself, in the name of national security or any other stated reason.


Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,


SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

This Act may be cited as the ‘Internet Protection Act of 2013’.

SEC. 2. PROHIBITION OF INTERFERENCE IN THE OPERATION OR USE OF THE INTERNET.

(a) No law shall be passed, and no existing law shall be enforced, which limits or prevents, directly or indirectly, the internet access of any group, organization, or movement, composed of US citizens, or of an individual citizen of the United States or her territories or protectorates, or of the operation of any website, or of the internet itself, in the name of national security or any other stated reason, except as described in (c).

(b) No agency or employee of the federal government, including all elected or appointed officials and any element of the intelligence community, shall commit any act which limits or prevents, directly or indirectly, the internet access of any group, organization, or movement, composed of US citizens, or of an individual citizen of the United States or her territories or protectorates, or of the operation of any website, or of the internet itself, in the name of national security or any other stated reason, except as described in (c).

(c) Exception- This prohibition does not apply to singular websites given legal cease and desist orders in matters of copyright enforcement, subject to all conditions of the Constitution and the Bill of Rights, when ordered by a federal judge.

(d) Definition- In this section, the term ‘intelligence community’ has the meaning given the term in section 3(4) of the National Security Act of 1947 (50 U.S.C. 401a(4)).