CISPA Bill Sparks Concern Over Potential SOPA 2.0

Los Angeles Times:

In spite of their hopes, Internet activists are finding that their efforts to keep the digital world free of further regulation did not end with SOPA's defeat.

The Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act of 2011 is working its way through Congress, and is the latest proposed legislation to raise concerns among privacy activists. Introduced in November by Rep. Mike Rogers (R-Mich.) and Rep. Dutch Ruppersberger (D-Md.), the stated goal of CISPA is to create new channels for communication between government intelligence entities and private firms regarding potential and emerging cyber-security threats.

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Comments

[Candid Centrist]

11:52 PM on 04/10/2012

What happens when it passes and we're monitored like the UK[1] and censored like China? What happens when the LARGEST medium of free speech in America is under total Federal control[2]? Where does it end?? I'm starting to think that the conspiracy nuts are right on point.

To save what's LEFT of America and the Constitution, we HAVE to elect Ron Paul to TEAR DOWN this mess. If Romney is elected, we won't have any rights left by 2016 - we might even be under that martial law Obama signed in NDRP[3].

Of course, CEO of Facebook Mark Zuckerberg is on par with it now that it isn't targeting large corporations: "This time we're not a threat. We're a partner." If FaceBook endorses it, the mindless slobs that have an account with them will too. We're f***king doomed. :'(

[1] http://www.infosecisland.com/blogview/20918-UK-Proposes-Monitoring-Every-Email-Call-and-Text-Message.html
[2] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j6BKU9mCnn0
[3] http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2012/03/16/executive-order-national-defense-resources-preparedness

[Thanks4Watching]

01:45 PM on 04/10/2012

I read this bill. It is indeed SOPA 2.0. This should be the headline for tech section, if not the front page.

[jtabs]

12:46 PM on 04/10/2012

They won't be satisfied until they control all aspects of our lives and guarantee that we can't organize to oppose them.

[gnudarwin]

11:42 AM on 04/10/2012

#opdefense #cispa #anonymous #opblackout #cybersecurity #censorship #stopcispa

This is SOPA by another means. We want it killed.

Regards,
proclus
http://www.gnu-darwin.org/

[woody7]

10:18 AM on 04/10/2012

BOHICA.......................................................

[bobbyO]

07:51 AM on 04/10/2012

If it looks like a duck and quacks like a duck it's still a duck. This again will kill the Internet as we know it. It's supposed to work in "good faith" right..... Never happen

[ItsEmu]

03:21 AM on 04/10/2012

This is exactly how they do it. They will revive the old SOPA bill in hope that it will get less media attention and thus is easier to pass. If it fails again. They will try it again next year when nobody is thinking about SOPA. And it goes on and on until the big corporations and government got it their way.

[silibalt]

02:08 AM on 04/10/2012

Big Brother wants to watch and obama is in the front row center section.

[Hardy Blacklord]

01:33 AM on 04/10/2012

We need a Great Firewall of America.
Even China has their own Great Firewall, why can't we have one too? We are #1.

[woody7]

10:19 AM on 04/10/2012

only in our minds now a days.........................................................

[funkzillaBOT]

08:45 PM on 04/21/2012

No. We don't.

[JWerner]

12:40 AM on 04/10/2012

And the continual assault on our liberties continues. . .

[Tmus82]

12:19 AM on 04/10/2012

Hey politicians get a clue citizens don't want sopa only corporations and lobbyists. How about you worry about people insted of companys.

[Eroshan]

11:26 AM on 04/10/2012

"corporations are people" Mittens Romney

[Tmus82]

08:17 PM on 04/10/2012

Well you o"mitted" "my friend" very important