CISPA The New Internet Censorship Bill...

Well I found an Online Petition to help against this Censorship Bill, click on the link below:

http://www.avaaz.org/en/stop_cispa/?cl=1702181514&v=13511

Under the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act (CISPA), if a cyber threat is even suspected, companies we use to access the Internet will have the right to collect information on our activities, share that with the government, refuse to notify us that we are being watched and then use a blanket immunity clause to protect themselves from being sued for violation of privacy or any other illegal action. It's a crazy destruction of the privacy we all rely on in our everyday emails, Skype chats, web searches and more.

But we know that the US Congress is afraid of the world's response. This is the third time they have tried to rebrand their attempt to attack our Internet freedom and push it through under the radar, each time changing the law's name and hoping citizens would be asleep at the wheel. Already, Internet rights groups like the Electronic Frontier Foundation have condemned the bill for its interference with basic privacy rights -- now it's time for us to speak out.
 
Well here's a new petition against CISPA:

http://www.avaaz.org/en/stop_cispa_corporate_global/?tta

Do what you can and spread the word...
 
Sprinklepock said:
I really don't think Congress is going to ever prevail with these bills.

I'm sure it'll fail as hard as SOPA did.
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It will, but we still want it dead. CISPA is evil, putting a censor over the internet is impossible.
 
Card Slinger J said:
I recently heard on msnbc that the White House has already threatened to veto this bill. I wouldn't worry folks...
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Well, there are loopholes Congress can use to bypass that, such as its ability to override a veto if it gets enough votes within both the Senate and the House of Representatives. However, I still wasn't worried anyways since the chances of this bill passing seemed pretty slim to begin with.
 
Welp, sounds like it got passed:

http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20120426/14505718671/insanity-cispa-just-got-way-worse-then-passed-rushed-vote.shtml
 
Obama has said he'll veto it. Hopefully it won't have enough votes to be made into law.
 
Well most Democrats are opposed to CISPA from what I've understood, and since we have a Democratic Senate in Congress it's looking like they should get enough votes to block the bill from passing into law.

It's a shame that Republicans aren't Pro-Internet when they are using a bill like CISPA as a pawn for their own dirty politics against Obama who they are trying to make into a 1 term President. It's these kinds of politics that's dividing our country...

More details on the links below:

http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20120426/14505718671/insanity-cispa-just-got-way-worse-then-passed-rushed-vote.shtml

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/04/26/cispa-passes-house_n_1457548.html

Republicans are wanting to pass CISPA mainly because of Cyber Attacks from China hacking into U.S. Websites to further improve their own economy and country thus turning the U.S. into a Third World Country but it shouldn't be at the cost of stripping American citizens of their own privacy on the Internet.
 
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