Anyone heard of the latest attempt called "CISPA" ?

[SoTxBob]

Since the other attempts like SOPA seem to have failed, here's the next one....

"CISPA: say 'goodbye' to privacy and freedom
Lately Congress has attempted to sneak legislation that could change the face of the Internet as we know it, and all in the name of national security. First there was SOPA, the Stop Online Piracy Act, but now CISPA (Cyber Intelligence Sharing Protection Act) is threatening the privacy and freedom of US citizens. No online activity will be safe when it comes to these bills because as of now what's considered a cyber security threat is a large grey area, but David Seaman, journalist and host of The DL Show, joins us to take a closer look at CISPA."

 

[Jupiter551]

They need better acronyms if they want to get this through. POOPA for example.

 

[Zoomer]

You are using Russia Today as the source? Whilst I don't doubt there is truth in the reporting (to a degree), I also don't doubt Russia Today's utterly insane way of reporting things
During the London riots Russia Today was reporting it as if the rioters were simply Joe Public who were angry about austerity - instead of criminal gangs and then selfish greedy bystanders who join in to make a few quick quid whilst they thought the cops weren't looking. Was amusing.

 

[Mirra]

The Wikipedia article *mostly* agrees with the video posted but Wikipedia does give a bit of a "light at the end of the tunnel" feeling by saying there are already plans to fix some of the key privacy concerns by narrowing the scope of when the information CISPA would make available could be used. It hasn't happened yet and until it does, it really is a very serious threat.

Even once it happens, I am tired of bills that want to invade our internet privacy. There are so many problems in America that NEED legislative attention but they keep pushing crap like this around instead. Our priorities are so messed up.

The plus side on this one is because it doesn't focus so much on intellectual property they don't plan on breaking the whole damn internet with DNS filtering. Instead they'll allow law enforcement agencies, private security agencies, and other parts of the government to read all your emails and see all those google searches you made that one night. You know the night I mean. You didn't even realize they made porn like that did you? Well I hope you enjoyed yourself.

 

[Jupiter551]

I think it's really sneaky that bills get shot down on the basis of people not wanting the internet regulated, so they just propose another one. Eventually they must be hoping (and they're probably right) that people will get tired of the news about it and they'll start getting through.

Once one of these bills makes it through they'll start pushing redesigned versions of the already rejected ones in behind them. I hope people keep the pressure up and let representatives know that if they continue supporting efforts to undermine unregulated internet they won't be voted back in.

 

[Mork]

Sad some people would rather criticize a particular source than bothering about the subject matter...
cispa is all over google and from what I have seen before this thread, the OP is pretty close to accurate. Seems this time the blackout protests like last time by google and the others isnt going to happen.
just for a random sampling tho....

http://www.usnews.com/news/articles/201 ... inst-cispa
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/04/2 ... 39981.html
http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2012 ... nformation
http://thehill.com/blogs/hillicon-valle ... um=twitter


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