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 Lacking a Corporate Outcry, CISPA Looks Likely to PassPosted on Apr 28, 2012
The hacking collective Anonymous is back with another pulse-pounding video, this time in an attempt to rally the American public against the “SOPA-like” CISPA bill that passed the House of Representatives and now heads to the Senate. But CISPA is not SOPA and the difference is significant. SOPA was a law introduced in late 2011 aimed at giving media and entertainment companies the authority to order Internet service providers to block websites that enable copyright infringement. The bill would have given corporations the power to censor most if not all sites where people connect to share information and media. There was big corporate opposition to SOPA—AOL, Google, Facebook, eBay and scores of other Internet companies rallied to organize a full day of Internet blackout, which placed tremendous pressure on lawmakers to abandon the bill. This time, however, Microsoft appears to be the lone corporate power speaking against CISPA. Previously a supporter of the bill, a spokesperson for the company recently said that any law governing the Internet must allow “us to honor the privacy and security promises we make to our customers.” Why are other companies not banding together to fight CISPA as they did against SOPA? Probably because only the privacy of Internet users is at stake: The law would not directly interfere with any company’s ability to do business. Divided from the powerful corporations that once spoke for them, opposing CISPA seems to be in the urgent interest of American citizens alone. And without the resources and organization required to wage an aggressive public battle, it seems a certainty that lawmakers who back the legislation will prevail. —Alexander Reed Kelly Advertisement
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By EmileZ, April 30, 2012 at 2:58 am Link to this comment
Dear Anonymous,
Thank you for opposing CISPA, I also oppose CISPA.
Now could you scrap the V for Vendetta masks, the corny music, dramatic electronically altered voice, and find a decent spokesperson please??
Pretty please???
Okay forget it. Forget I said anything. (oops, Anonymous does not forgive and forget, I forgot). Being a superhero is fun. It is a barrel of fun monkeys. Why didn’t I see that before. It is funny. Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha.
I have drawn a few alternate Anonymous icons (but I don’t have a scanner so you won’t find them on my computer). Perhaps I will send them to you some day. I think it would be fun if you had an Anonymous icon page, where artists and other less exalted folks, could have their submissions posted because it is an awesome idea and it is fun. Maybe you already do. If so, never mind.
Love and righteous vengeance,
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By rend it, April 29, 2012 at 6:54 pm Link to this comment
hope i can still pick up easy chicks on craigslist.
Report thisBy joe, April 29, 2012 at 10:09 am Link to this comment
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With the recent National Defense Act and now CISPA, the government will
ultimately be able to censor what information you have access to, be able
to invade your cell phone and pc at will to be sure you have no
“Incriminating” - that means anti establishment - material on either, and if
all else fails and you become a thorn in their side they can tag you with
“Enemy of the State” - without proof of evidence or even due process - and
make you disappear forever and never have to tell anyone that they took
you.
With CISPA they will ultimately have complete control over all information -
Report thisgiving them the power to alter everyone’s reality to be what they want it to
be, and the power to search freely without warrant or show of cause for any
and all dissidents. Welcome to the new Facist America.
By adc14, April 28, 2012 at 6:25 pm Link to this comment
Our country is headed down the fascist road. Our system of government is so corrupt, it leaks putrid products of decay onto everything it touches. A government unresponsive to the people and beholden to the wealthy, an apathetic and ignorant populace, a growing militarization-industrial complex, militarization of the local police, curtailment of civil rights and increased surveillance by Big Brother. Tell me, what does that add up to you?
Report thisBy gerard, April 28, 2012 at 1:26 pm Link to this comment
Dear Anonymous: And Step 2 is .....?
Please note: It has always been next to imposible to get very many people to write letters and make phone calls to Congress or anybody else in government because Congress and others in government simply don’t play fair. They ignore mail and calls, and half the time kick you out of their offices. At best they just pretend to say “thank you” and move right along.
Report thisThat’s why people take to the streets, eventually—which is entirely permissable under rights guaranteed in our—OUR—Constitution. But ... how about when cops with tear gas and sticks—even guns—become more legal than the OUR Constitution?
By diamond, April 28, 2012 at 12:27 pm Link to this comment
“it seems a certainty that lawmakers…”
They are not lawmakers: they are lawbreakers and they want to censor the internet to avoid the consequences of their crimes.
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