Even worse than SOPA: New CISPA cybersecurity bill will censor the Web

[PeeKnuckle]

An onrush of condemnation and criticism kept the SOPA and PIPA acts from passing earlier this year, but US lawmakers have already authored another authoritarian bill that could give them free reign to creep the Web in the name of cybersecurity.

As congressmen in Washington consider how to handle the ongoing issue of cyberattacks, some legislators have lent their support to a new act that, if passed, would let the government pry into the personal correspondence of anyone of their choosing.

H.R. 3523, a piece of legislation dubbed the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act (or CISPA for short), has been created under the guise of being a necessary implement in America’s war against cyberattacks. But the vague verbiage contained within the pages of the paper could allow Congress to circumvent existing exemptions to online privacy laws and essentially monitor, censor and stop any online communication that it considers disruptive to the government or private parties. Critics have already come after CISPA for the capabilities that it will give to seemingly any federal entity that claims it is threatened by online interactions, but unlike the Stop Online Privacy Act and the Protect IP Acts that were discarded on the Capitol Building floor after incredibly successful online campaigns to crush them, widespread recognition of what the latest would-be law will do has yet to surface to the same degree.

Definitely read on

http://rt.com/usa/news/cispa-bill-sopa-internet-175/

[Dateranoth]

They'll never give up. We'll just have to continue to stand up.

[Skylark95]

Whatever happened to freedom of speech and privacy?

[PeeKnuckle]

'Terrorism' happened.

[Avahra]

Ugh. Seriously they are more pressing matters they could be dealing with over these.