CISPA passed the House. Why should you care? Because this piece of legislation is just one more step toward an online police state. It received bi-partisan support. Liberty loving Republicans and obstructionist Democrats voted “Nay”. The rest voted “Yay” with a few who abstained from casting their vote.
This government is moving toward total control. Left, right, it doesn’t matter. Together the political parties of this country want control. They are destroying your freedom and liberty. Nancy Pelosi may vote against CISPA but she sure as shit had no problem taking away your health care freedom. Michelle Bachmann may lead the fight against health care but she sure had no problem voting for this piece of dystopian crap.
None of them are fighting for your liberty and freedom. They are fighting for their control. And sadly 50% of the country that are mooching off the government think that is perfectly fine. And the totalitarian, big government, state marches on.
Gizmodo reports:
The bill is still unabashedly a violation of your privacy rights—nearly anything you say or do online can be handed over to the government without so much as a warrant—although version of the bill that passed this afternoon is both better and worse than it had been in its original form. As CNET points out, one amendment was withdrawn before the proceedings that would have given the Department of Homeland Security sweeping and, more importantly, superseding authority. When it was in, CISPA would have been a DHS trump card, essentially, overruling any local or state legislation that contradicted it. That’s gone.
That doesn’t, though, mean that you should stop worrying about CISPA. As the EFF makes all too clear, the truly concerning parts of the bill—the ones that give the government the right to conduct surveillance on your Internet everything without your knowledge or permission—are firmly in place…
…Comparisons between SOPA and CISPA have been cropping up, and they’re inevitable because they’re both an uncomfortable and disquieting intersection of government and Internet. But the two bills are also different in crucial ways. Where SOPA aimed to prosecute, CISPA will spy. Where citizens rallied against SOPA in final days before voting, CISPA has remained largely off the radar. Where tech giants stood up against SOPA, they’ve lined up to join the CISPA caravan.
The good news is that it more than likely won’t pass the Senate. If it does Obama threatens veto. This is the first thing in the last 3.5 years that I have supported the President or the Democrat led Senate on.
