House Passes CISPA cybersecurity bill today, 248-168...

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...204 rinos voted for the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act , 140 Democrats voted against it.

Naturally, Ron Paul was among the 28 Republicans who voted against the bill. Here is a statement re: CISPA he released recently:

CISPA is the New SOPA

Earlier this year, strong public opposition led by several prominent websites forced Congressional leaders to cancel votes on two bills known in Washington as “SOPA” and “PIPA.” Both of these bills threatened search engines and websites with possible shutdowns if the Justice Department deemed them insufficiently cooperative with our phony “war on terror,” or if they were merely accused of copyright infringement. Fortunately the American public flooded Capitol Hill with phone calls and Congressional leaders dropped both bills.

But we should never underestimate the federal government’s insatiable desire to control the internet. Statists of all parties, persuasions, and nationalities hate the free, unbridled flow of information, ideas, and goods via the internet. They resent the notion that ordinary people can communicate and trade across the world without government filters or approvals. So they continually seek to impose controls, always under the guise of fighting terrorism or protecting “intellectual property” rights.

The latest assault on internet freedom is called the “Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act,” or “CISPA,” which may be considered by Congress this week. CISPA is essentially an internet monitoring bill that permits both the federal government and private companies to view your private online communications with no judicial oversight--provided, of course, that they do so in the name of “cybersecurity.” The bill is very broadly written, and allows the Department of Homeland Security to obtain large swaths of personal information contained in your emails or other online communication. It also allows emails and private information found online to be used for purposes far beyond any reasonable definition of fighting cyberterrorism.

CISPA represents an alarming form of corporatism, as it further intertwines government with companies like Google and Facebook. It permits them to hand over your private communications to government officials without a warrant, circumventing well-established federal laws like the Wiretap Act and the Electronic Communications Privacy Act. It also grants them broad immunity from lawsuits for doing so, leaving you without recourse for invasions of privacy. Simply put, CISPA encourages some of our most successful internet companies to act as government spies, sowing distrust of social media and chilling communication in one segment of the world economy where America still leads.

Proponents of CISPA may be well-intentioned, but they unquestionably are leading us toward a national security state rather than a free constitutional republic. Imagine having government-approved employees embedded at Facebook, complete with federal security clearances, serving as conduits for secret information about their American customers. If you believe in privacy and free markets, you should be deeply concerned about the proposed marriage of government intelligence gathering with private, profit-seeking companies. CISPA is Big Brother writ large, putting the resources of private industry to work for the nefarious purpose of spying on the American people.We can only hope the public responds to CISPA as it did to SOPA back in January. I urge you to learn more about the bill by reading a synopsis provided by the Electronic Frontier Foundation on their website at eff.org. I also urge you to call your federal Senators and Representatives and urge them to oppose CISPA and similar bills that attack internet freedom.

http://paul.house.gov/index.php?opt...w-sopa&catid=62:texas-straight-talk&Itemid=69

And if you'd like to read more info re: CISPA, here's a good FAQ link that disagrees with Paul's assertion the bill is a "New SOPA"...

...rather, of the potential of civil liberties being violated, they write, "CISPA is not so much SOPA but instead a new form of the Patriot Act."

http://paidcontent.org/2012/04/26/faq-what-you-need-to-know-about-fridays-cispa-vote/

 

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[koalabear]

We need a list of gun owners for national security reasons.

 

[evesdream]

You're posting this in a forum whose measure for freedom of speech is based on whether or not one can say the word "nigger" on Literotica.

 

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[koalabear]

From the article I linked:

"There has been a lot of misinformation online regarding this bill’s impact on privacy and civil liberties. This legislation allows companies to provide the government information about the cyberattack, computer code and things of that nature, and encourages companies to strip out any personal information. The information received by the government must be used for a cybersecurity or national security purposes. The bill expressly prohibits the government from requiring companies to give information in exchange for the cyber threat intelligence. And finally, the bill requires an annual report from the inspector general of the intelligence community to ensure none of the information provided to the government is mishandled or misused. Every step of this process is completely voluntary. The government cannot require companies to do or hand over anything. The bill does not allow the government to monitor private networks, read private email or censor or shut down any website."

It's giant can of worms.

 

[Shagly]

...204 rinos voted for the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act , 140 Democrats voted against it.

Naturally, Ron Paul was among the 28 Republicans who voted against the bill. Here is a statement re: CISPA he released recently:



And if you'd like to read more info re: CISPA, here's a good FAQ link that disagrees with Paul's assertion the bill is a "New SOPA"...

...rather, of the potential of civil liberties being violated, they write, "CISPA is not so much SOPA but instead a new form of the Patriot Act."

http://paidcontent.org/2012/04/26/faq-what-you-need-to-know-about-fridays-cispa-vote/

248 bit encryption here we come.

 

[Shagly]

We need a list of gun owners for national security reasons.

Not including the "Black market".

 

[IndieSnob]

In other words if your rights are being stomped on by Republicans under the falsehood of national security, it's A-OK.

 

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[Shagly]

You man 2048 right?

Thats it, if the Navy can use it we can use it.

 

[eyer]

You're posting this in a forum whose measure for freedom of speech is based on whether or not one can say the word "nigger" on Literotica.

! REPORTED !

 

[koalabear]

it would have been a lot worse if Obama would have gotten what he wanted.

Slowly but surely he is getting it.

 

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[Frizzle_Fry]

Naturally, Ron Paul was among the 28 Republicans who voted against the bill.

Because Paul doesn't just give "limited government/personal responsibility" lip service, he actually votes it. Someday people are going to get tired of EVERYTHING being illegal and impossibly regulated to the point you can't leave your house without paying the gov for your "going into public" permit.

How do y'all self proclaimed conservatives feel about Obama ....opps I mean Romney care coming to a neighborhood near you?

 

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Because Paul doesn't just give "limited government/personal responsibility" lip service, he actually votes it. Someday people are going to get tired of EVERYTHING being illegal and impossibly regulated to the point you can't leave your house without paying the gov for your "going into public" permit.

How do y'all self proclaimed conservatives feel about Obama ....opps I mean Romney care coming to a neighborhood near you?

I cannot speak for all "conservatives", of course...

...but as a loyal, longtime, and loud laudatory Republican Party member, I view "Romney care" as probably the most outstanding dose of health care plannage the world has ever known. I also consider the man the hero of this generation, and I hope he turns total Nazi and assassinates stoners like you.

I cannot wait to vote for such a remarkable human being this November; I am so excited that we have a chance finally to get a real Americun back in the White House. Yay!

And, if you don't love that kind of Amerika...

...you can leave it, faggot!

Yeah!!

 

[Frizzle_Fry]

I cannot speak for all "conservatives", of course...

...but as a loyal, longtime, and loud laudatory Republican Party member, I view "Romney care" as probably the most outstanding dose of health care plannage the world has ever known.

LOL you would...."If a republican dose it it's great, dem dose it its' socialism!!!"
fucking hypocrite

I also consider the man the hero of this generation, and I hope he turns total Nazi and assassinates stoners like you.

FREEDOM!!! LIBERTY!!!! BUT ONLY MY BRAND OF IT!!! more hypocrisy.....I'm fucking shocked.
http://rlv.zcache.com/poker_face_rage_face_meme_flyer-p244848404789425638b73co_400.jpg

I cannot wait to vote for such a remarkable human being this November; I am so excited that we have a chance finally to get a real Americun back in the White House. Yay!

Dose your mother know you are hanging out in FOX's tool shed at this hour?

And, if you don't love that kind of Amerika...

...you can leave it, faggot!

Yeah!!

lol that's just funny.

 

[Mike_Yates]

There are very dark ulterior political motives behind all of the draconian legislation passed by the Obama administration. Such legislation has absolutely nothing to do with legitimate security concerns, but rather it is meant to serve the needs of various cloak and dagger special interests and to deliberately assault civil liberties.

The Amerikan police state needs more tools and infrastructure to spy on citizens whom dare to dissent against it, so they can be vetted and blacklisted more efficiently.

The "land of the free" more closely resembles that of the old East-German communist bloc with each passing day. It's only a matter of time before we start having disappearances and assassinations of political dissidents along with a massive political prison system (on US soil) where torture and executions take place.

These brutal totalitarian erosions of democracy are very important in protecting us from the CIA-concoction "Al Qaeda".

 

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lol that's just funny.

You're so stoned right now...

...you don't even realize how "funny".

 

[Mike_Yates]

Greedy and corrupt special interests have bribed, threatened, and intimidated our elected federal representatives enough to the point where they actually fear for their careers, or even their lives, if they don't pass these corrupt and draconian bills.

"The system" is entirely run by greedy and power-hungry criminals and is fundamentally broken at every level.

 

[Frizzle_Fry]

You're so stoned right now...

...you don't even realize how "funny".

Actually I'm not baked atm.....got a lab to go to in a few hrs and I don't go play with deadly shit baked. Afterwards though....party on like a true freedom loving american

Got some sticky icky icky just waiting to get set on fire....ever smoked organic LED grown White Russian that has been curing an excessively long time? It's great shit...dulls the chronic pain of the shrapnel stuck in my spine and makes cartoons and sex just amazing.

 

[FazilKotuk]

Now I really want a drink. Damn. Wankers. All but Ron Paul and those others with the courage to oppose this madness.

 

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Actually I'm not baked atm........

Then the stupid you show in this thread must be inherent...

...dulls the chronic pain of the shrapnel stuck in my spine and makes cartoons and sex just amazing.

Of course it does...

...you know that other thread where you pointed out to another poster the way to tell who has really actually killed someone is that the killer won't brag?

How do you feel about posters continually touting their service experiences and war wounds?

 

[Frizzle_Fry]

Then the stupid you show in this thread must be inherent...

Blow it out your ass old man.

Of course it does...

...you know that other thread where you pointed out to another poster the way to tell who has really actually killed someone is that the killer won't brag?

well you can't tell if they are a killer if they don't say anything about it now can you? that's the whole point you retard. I said you know when someone is full of shit when they brag about killing others.

How do you feel about posters continually touting their service experiences and war wounds?

You assume it's a war wound... I never said it was. Please...share with me what experiences I have posted about. I'm kinda curious if you can tell me what units I served with, how many deployments to where and when, what schools I attended, what certs I have, how long I was in...common. Since I'm continually touting them you should have no problem finding quotes all over the place right?


I think you are just mad I called your political icon out for the hypocritical slime ball he is.