Besides, don't you think free speech advocacy groups, large private network holders like AT&T, Comcast, and others would be a little upset if the government was trying to seize control of private citizens and corporations networks? Yet no press releases from them. Odd don't you think?

It's because these cyber security bills are about securing government networks, both civilian and military.

Yeah, some of them probably have some stupid wording in them, like the proposed "kill-switch" that made the news but was dropped when the law writers were told it'd be nigh impossible without a trillion dollar investment to change the fundamental nature of the internet.

In government parlance, "civilian" means agencies like Social Security Administration. Non-military. "Private" means you and me.