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Message Posted: Mar 27, 2013 2:49:20 PM
IMPORTANT UPDATE on this issue that all of us that use the NET should be concerned about.
"One of the most controversial aspects of that act was to make it easier to force private companies to turn over business records of their customers when requested via a National Security Letter; these companies were forbidden from notifying the customer or anyone else about the NSL. Last week, nearly 12 years after the PATRIOT Act became law and more than 100,000 NSLs had been issued, a federal judge declared those NSLs unconstitutional.
Now we have CISPA, which is kind of an NSL in reverse. It allows private companies to share your business records with the government, pretty much whenever they feel a sudden cyber attack panic coming on."
Controversial cyber security bill, which is hungry for your private information
[Edited by: Gas Cat at 3/27/2013 5:53:33 PM EST]
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Message Posted: Aug 2, 2012 5:03:07 PM
UPDATE . . .
Remember when it stunk because the really terrible CISPA suddenly passed the House? Well, because thousands of you emailed and called your Senators, CISPA and its Senate counterpart are both dead for now!
You made it happen, but it was really close -- if thousands of us did not call, email, and visit our elected officials, then senators would be busy turning CISPA into law right now.
It's great that when we band together, we can win. The “Internet Spring” that started when SOPA got crushed (followed by ACTA falling in Europe) now has its third victory - CISPA.
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Message Posted: May 24, 2012 2:41:38 PM
New York Senate bill seeks to end anonymous internet posting.
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If the bill passes, get ready to hand over your full name and home address
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Message Posted: May 5, 2012 2:08:00 PM
Here is the latest information. WE the PEOPLE should really care about this IF you care about the Internet.
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The Insert link is not working, so I had to copy and paste the article. Sorry about that... This is By Robert X. Cringely | InfoWorld. (CREDITING THE SOUCE since the insert link is now working)
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Despite much wailing and gnashing of teeth in this and other corners of the InterWebs, the U.S. House of Representatives passed the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act (CISPA) yesterday, a day earlier than expected.
Though not before our fine legislative members spent seven hours grandstanding for C-SPAN and debating a few choice amendments. The good news is that legislators removed language that defined "cyber threats" as including the theft of intellectual property. The RIAA and MPAA will have to wait another day for their little gift from Congress.
The bad news is that the House refused to even consider amendments that would strengthen the bill's weak privacy provisions, and it broadened the scope of the bill from cyber security to virtually any use of the Internet that could cause "physical or psychological harm" to minors or threaten the national security of the United States. As TechDirt's Leigh Beadon notes:
The government would be able to search information it collects under CISPA for the purposes of investigating American citizens with complete immunity from all privacy protections as long as they can claim someone committed a "cyber security crime." Basically it says the 4th Amendment does not apply online, at all.
For Cnet's Declan McCullagh, the controversy over CISPA boils down to one word: "notwithstanding." Because the text of CISPA declares that its authority applies "notwithstanding any other provision of law," CISPA then trumps any other law that might protect your medical records, school transcripts, video rental histories, and the like.
It works kind of like this: Notwithstanding any laws prohibiting grand theft, I'm going to steal your car. Notwithstanding your right to physical safety, I'm going to punch you in the nose. Notwithstanding the U.S. Constitution, I'm going to drag you out of your bed in the middle of the night, put you in shackles, and change your forwarding address to Gitmo for the next 10 years.
However, the House did amend CISPA to keep private companies from sharing records detailing your library habits, tax returns, and any guns you've bought. Apparently reading, shooting, and paying taxes are not threats to cyber security.
CISPA isn't law -- yet. It still has to go to the Senate, where it could simply wither and die or be combined with several other competing cyber security bills (more likely the latter). And the Obama White House has threatened to veto it, though it's unclear if that threat still holds for an amended version of the bill.
The fight continues. But make no mistake: This is the most important digital legislation we've seen in a long time, possibly ever. As the ACLU notes:
Although a carefully crafted information sharing program that strictly limits the information to be shared and includes robust privacy safeguards could be an effective approach to cyber security, CISPA lacks such protections for individual rights. CISPA's "information sharing" regime allows the transfer of vast amounts of data, including sensitive information like Internet use history or the content of emails, to any agency in the government including military and intelligence agencies like the National Security Agency or the Department of Defense Cyber Command.
Big Brother will soon be following you on Twitter. When our only protection is the hope that Facebook or AT&T or Comcast won't voluntarily roll over and give Uncle Sam all our information, then we have no protection at all.
[Edited by: Gas Cat at 5/5/2012 5:14:42 PM EST]
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Message Posted: Apr 17, 2012 7:24:18 PM
NEW BILL same old . . .
Congress is considering legislation that would create backdoor wiretaps into our daily communications. These “cybersecurity” bills would give companies a free pass to monitor and collect communications, including huge amounts of personal data like your text messages and emails. Companies could ship that data wholesale to the government or anyone else provided they claim it was for "cybersecurity purposes." Tell Congress that they can’t use vaguely defined "cybersecurity threats" as a shortcut to shredding the Constitution.
Don’t Let Congress Use "Cybersecurity" Fears to Trample on Civil Liberties
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Message Posted: Mar 4, 2012 9:16:31 AM
I read about that. That could be interesting this thursday. I will post just
after midnight. Than will have to wait and see if this website will work
on friday.
Its not about a virus really. Its about taking it over and watching us!!
Just like they do in China. More of our Freedom gone!! When will the people
of this country stand up!!! We're going back to the Roman error time.
Just my opinion.
[Edited by: Lighting10K at 3/4/2012 12:17:03 PM EST]
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Message Posted: Feb 23, 2012 11:46:53 AM
More information that could shut down the internet on March 8, 2012.
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FBI Could Shut Off Internet for Thousands on March 8 to Eradicate Virus
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Just trying to let people know what is going on.
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Message Posted: Feb 23, 2012 2:55:51 AM
vote no!!!!
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Message Posted: Feb 23, 2012 2:22:07 AM
this administration?
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Message Posted: Feb 22, 2012 9:09:59 PM
this is an international threat using the UN and other such lousy organizations.
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Message Posted: Feb 22, 2012 9:08:35 PM
There is another threat coming from ACTA
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Message Posted: Feb 21, 2012 9:16:19 PM
you never told us before that you started this thread.
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Message Posted: Feb 21, 2012 9:15:42 PM
hi gascat!
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Message Posted: Jan 17, 2012 9:08:19 PM
The only presidential candidate to oppose SOPA is Ron Paul
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Message Posted: Jan 17, 2012 5:21:01 PM
Tomorrow, January 18th, 2012, will be the largest internet protest in history. Thousands of sites across the internet, including some of the biggest in the world, will be blacking out and directing people to contact Congress to kill the web censorship bill, SOPA and PIPA.
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Message Posted: Jan 13, 2012 2:49:14 PM
More information that anyone using the internet should know about.
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On Jan. 18th there is going to be an all-out strike on the internet.
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Websites across the internet are going dark in protest of the internet censorship bills in Congress, SOPA and PIPA.
Some of the biggest sites in the world are participating
[Edited by: Gas Cat at 1/13/2012 5:50:59 PM EST]
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Message Posted: Nov 24, 2011 12:05:27 PM
New information:
"The Internet Censorship Bill took a massive beating last week (yeah, you did that!) but drug companies, movie studios and the Chamber of Commerce do *not* go down easy.
Now-- get this-- they're telling Congress it's a "jobs" bill.
This is dangerous. Everyone in Congress is desperate to do something to create jobs. Now the most powerful lobbies in Washington are banging down their doors, saying "this is your (only) chance to pass a jobs bill."
Since Congress is away for the holiday, there's one priority: sign up as many people as possible for a massive call-in day when Congress returns.
Click here to join in, by committing to call your Senator
Since the House's "SOPA" has such a bad name (yes, you did that) lobbyists are moving their weight behind the Senate version, PIPA ("The PROTECT IP Act"). The Senate's censorship bill is just as bad; it's only missing a few of SOPA's extra-crazy provisions, like the ones that could send you to jail for singing a pop song on YouTube. The website blocking provisions are all there. Still, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid thinks that with the attention on SOPA, he can sneak PIPA through quickly when Congress returns.
Reid needs to know this bill won't move forward without a fight. That's why we're organizing a call-in day for Tuesday, using the same tools that our heroes at Tumblr used last week. It's kind of perfect. While Congress rests we've got 5 full days to sign up friends, colleagues, Twitter followers-- everybody. Then on Tuesday we'll unleash a storm of phone calls.
Click here to sign up, and then get others signed up too.
This weekend, instead of nobly vegging out on the internet, you can fight for the future of the internet and freedom of speech. Every ounce of time you spend counts.
Signups now, phone calls Tuesday. Start your engines.
Holmes Wilson
Fight for the Future / AmericanCensorship.org "
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Message Posted: Nov 19, 2011 8:30:14 AM
Additional information. The fight is NOT over.
"Last week there was a small meeting at Mozilla to discuss SOPA, the Internet Censorship Bill.
It was eerie. The DC groups were practically screaming "this bill is the worst we've ever seen, and we can't stop it" -- while everyone else had barely heard of it. The consensus? We needed to wake people up.
Well, this week the Internet woke up. *You* woke the Internet up.
Check out the numbers and screenshots from American Censorship Day.
Over 80,000 Tumblr users called ther representatives. SOPA was a trending tweet in the U.S. and between the Electronic Fronteir Foundation, Avaaz, and Demand Progress (groups that are just now working together!) we sent Congress over 1,000,000 emails.
The scary part? We still might lose. Though growing fast, our coalition still isn't strong enough.
The bill is backed by an unholy alliance of Hollywood, its unions, drug companies, and the Chamber of Commerce. They are pouring money into it, and they've been working on this for years. Yesterday, big players like Tumblr, Mozilla, Reddit, BoingBoing and even 4chan came out strong on our side. Now it's your turn. We've got to dig in and go viral.
Can you tell 20 friends about the Internet Censorship Bill?
Or just forward this email.
And remember, the thing that made yesterday so powerful were the thousands of people who ran "Stop Censorship" messages on their sites.
Can you add a "Stop Censorship" message to your blog, Tumblr, Facebook, or YouTube pages? Click here for the code.
If you ran "Stop Censorship" or the "Contact Congress" splash on your page, we humbly ask you to keep running it until this bill is dead, and to find more people who can. We understand if you can't, but the bill is just as bad as it was yesterday -- so we've got to ask.
Click here to get the code to add to your page. It's easy.
This week was amazing -- thanks for everything you've done. There will be more, we promise.
Holmes Wilson
Fight for the Future
AmericanCensorship.org"
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