I'm delighted to be bringing you the wonderful news that it seems as if CISPA is likely to be defeated in the Senate over privacy concerns. If you'd like to read the whole story then check out my link: CISPA 'dead' in Senate, privacy concerns cited

There are still many troubling events going on and know this...they will just rewrite the bill and eventually one of it's incarnations will pass. Keep up the pressure and keep up your involvement. Together there is nothing we can't do.

 

Good. CISPA isn't wanted here anyways

 

It’s worse than we thought. CNET has obtained 1,000 pages of government documents that reveal the Obama administration secretly authorized a backdoor for warrantless online wiretapping. Basically, the government promised not to prosecute companies for breaking privacy laws as long as they co-operated with government spying.

That sounds familiar, right? It's basically what CISPA is supposed to do. CISPA is just a legal framework for what the U.S. government has been already doing secretly (and possibly illegally) -- violating our online privacy rights.

We don’t want to live in a country where that’s okay. Help us respond quickly and loudly! It's unacceptable for the U.S. Government to violate the world’s online privacy, regardless of what acronym they use for it.


See info here:
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-57581161-38/u.s-gives-big-secret-push-to-internet-surveillance/

Take action here:
http://www.cispaisback.org/

 

Unfortunately this isn't news to me. The FBI was found to have initiated 10,000+ illegal spying activities including wiretapping and internet monitoring for a number of years post 9/11...and those are just the ones that came to light. Imagine how many we don't even know about. The military-industrial complex is completely out of control these days and things are about to get much much worse. Of course if even 1/1000th of its inhabitants actually did anything about it they wouldn't be taking such luxuries with their freedoms.

 

Olymoon
"It’s worse than we thought. CNET has obtained 1,000 pages of government documents that reveal the Obama administration secretly authorized a backdoor for warrantless online wiretapping. Basically, the government promised not to prosecute companies for breaking privacy laws as long as they co-operated with government spying."

Yes there always small print.

 

When you don't like some area of your life you have to go in the opposite direction with the same amount of force. The same can be said about the balance of power between the rulers and the ruled. The truth is that people have only lately become somewhat interested because we're approaching Orwell's 1984 (maybe they thought it was an instruction manual. *no* ) The military-industrial complex has grown considerably since Eisenhower's speech and people didn't even listen to it back then. It seems like they have the power but if you can examine it closely you will see that their power is derived from our obedience. We have a lot of lost time to make up for so we need to keep our eye on the target. Don't get discouraged.

 

one day i will be able to tell my kids of the "wild west" of the internet, and how the government and big business corporations shut it down