How CISPA Got Passed, & How Bad it is.

[Hubert Mitchell]

Up until this afternoon, the final vote on CISPA was supposed to be tomorrow. Then, abruptly, it was moved up today—and the House voted in favor of its passage with a vote of 248-168. But that's not even the worst part.

The vote followed the debate on amendments, several of which were passed. Among them was an absolutely terrible change (pdf and embedded below—scroll to amendment #6) to the definition of what the government can do with shared information, put forth by Rep. Quayle. Astonishingly, it was described as limiting the government's power, even though it in fact expands it by adding more items to the list of acceptable purposes for which shared information can be used. Even more astonishingly, it passed with a near-unanimous vote. The CISPA that was just approved by the House is much worse than the CISPA being discussed as recently as this morning.

Previously, CISPA allowed the government to use information for "cybersecurity" or "national security" purposes. Those purposes have not been limited or removed. Instead, three more valid uses have been added: investigation and prosecution of cybersecurity crime, protection of individuals, and protection of children. Cybersecurity crime is defined as any crime involving network disruption or hacking, plus any violation of the CFAA.

Basically this means CISPA can no longer be called a cybersecurity bill at all. 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 "cybersecurity crime". Basically it says the 4th Amendment does not apply online, at all. Moreover, the government could do whatever it wants with the data as long as it can claim that someone was in danger of bodily harm, or that children were somehow threatened—again, notwithstanding absolutely any other law that would normally limit the government's power.

Link:
http://www.techdirt.com/articles/201204 ... vote.shtml

Weasels are as weasels do!

[free_life2]

A day of infamy

[Hubert Mitchell]

A day of infamy

Yes indeed.

[Julian]

In my opinion it is only a matter of time before a genuine armed revolution takes place in the USA. There is already a communist/dictatorship revolution under way as we have seen far more than ample proof of. The question is, will Americans roll over and become slaves to their own government or will they rise up and take it back?

[henbaker]

china
its to combat chinese hacking

but we all know it will be used for other nefarious purposes. of course

[Connie Fournier]

Harper figures he'll do this to us with C-30, too.

And, why was he secretly meeting with China's Propaganda Chief? Working on a firewall for us, Stephen?

OTTAWA—Normally when the prime minister of Canada receives a high-ranking foreign official, the visit follows a predictable protocol. There are press releases, advanced agendas, and photo ops.

When Li Changchun, the fifth-ranked member of the Chinese regime’s ruling Standing Committee, came to Ottawa last week, there was none of that. Instead, the entire visit was kept under wraps. Details of the meeting emerged only via Chinese press likely in Li’s entourage.

Even after the visit, few details were released by the Prime Minister’s Office save for a photo of Stephen Harper and his guest facing each other in armchairs.

Li is the head of the Chinese regime’s notorious propaganda and censorship system....
http://www.theepochtimes.com/n2/world/c ... 27636.html


http://www.canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/46163

[free_life2]

My guess is they are preparing for worldwide collapse and know when that happens it will be governments that will have to protect itself from all the desperate and angry citizens.

This is too coordinated among all these governments to be anything other than preplanned for government against the people they know is coming. Weird I am a conservative and I sound like an occupier protestor, but I can't see why else this is happening in the coordinated way it is.

[Hubert Mitchell]

My guess is they are preparing for worldwide collapse and know when that happens it will be governments that will have to protect itself from all the desperate and angry citizens.

This is too coordinated among all these governments to be anything other than preplanned for government against the people they know is coming. Weird I am a conservative and I sound like an occupier protestor, but I can't see why else this is happening in the coordinated way it is.

Exactly correct!