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- ACLU: CISPA Is Dead (For Now) (US News, April 25, 2013):

The Senate will not take up the controversial cybersecurity bill, is drafting separate legislation

CISPA is all but dead, again.

The controversial cybersecurity bill known as the Cyber Information Sharing and Protection Act, which passed the House of Representatives last week, will almost certainly be shelved by the Senate, according to a representative of the U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation.

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Tags: CISPA, Global News, Government, Internet, Law, Politics

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- House Passes CISPA … The Privacy-Shredding Web Spying Bill

- U.S. House of Representatives Shamefully Passes CISPA; Internet Freedom Advocates Prepare for a Battle in the Senate (Electronic Frontier Foundation, April 18, 2013):

Today, Internet freedom advocates everywhere turned their eyes to the U.S. House of Representatives as that legislative body considered the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act.

For the second year in a row,  the House voted to approve CISPA, a bill that would allow companies to bypass all existing privacy law to spy on communications and pass sensitive user data to the government.  EFF condemns the vote in the House and vows to continue the fight in the Senate.

“CISPA is a poorly drafted bill that would provide a gaping exception to bedrock privacy law,” EFF Senior Staff Attorney Kurt Opsahl said. “While we all agree that our nation needs to address pressing Internet security issues, this bill sacrifices online privacy while failing to take common-sense steps to improve security.”

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Tags: Barack Obama, CISPA, Dictatorship, Global News, Government, New World Order, Obama administration, Politics, U.S.

- House Passes CISPA … the Privacy-Shredding Web Spying Bill (ZeroHedge, April 18, 2013):

Image by William Banzai

The privacy-shredding Internet spying bill – CISPA – has passed the House.

Our only chance is to stop it in the Senate. Background here and here.

Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian also urges us to contact Google, Facebook and Twitter and demand that they stand up to defeat CISPA:

Tags: Barack Obama, CISPA, Dictatorship, Global News, Government, New World Order, Obama administration, Politics, U.S.

- Obama to ‘bypass Congress’ on CISPA with cybersecurity executive order (RT, Feb 11, 2013):

Unable to reach a deal with Congress, President Obama plans to use his power to exert executive actions against the will of lawmakers. The president will issue orders addressing controversial topics including cybersecurity.

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Tags: Barack Obama, CISPA, Congress, cyber, Dictatorship, Global News, Government, Internet, New World Order, Obama administration, Politics, U.S.

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First TRAPWIRE, now RIOT, the new product from the defence company, Raytheon, and which is featured in the above video. RIOT will use GPS and other technologies to track people anywhere in the world. It also boast predictive capabilities (work out the most likely location the target will go to next). RIOT will basically search, analyse and organise all social network content globally.

Tags: CISPA, Facebook, Internet, New World Order, Raytheon, Society, Surveillance, Technology, Twitter, U.S.

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- Feinstein’s Gun Control Bill Will Trigger The Next American Revolution (Alt-Market, Dec 28, 2012):

ll political power comes from the barrel of a gun. The communist party must command all the guns, that way, no guns can ever be used to command the party – Mao Tse Tung

After a shooting spree, they always want to take the guns away from the people who didn’t do it. I sure as hell wouldn’t want to live in a society where the only people allowed guns are the police and the military – William Burroughs

Revolution?  Yes, it all sounds rather “extreme”, but the cold hard reality of our era is not going to comfort us with diplomacies and niceties, so honestly, why should I have to sugar coat anything?  We live in extreme times and there is no longer room for prancing around the ultimate consequences of that which is taking place in America today.  This country is increasingly sliding towards the edge of internal conflict.  The Liberty Movement and true Constitutionalists see it, subsections of Republicans and Democrats see it, and most of all, the federal government sees it.  In fact, they may even be counting on it.

Over the past two years alone, multiple draconian policies have been enacted through executive order by the Obama Administration which build upon the civil liberty crushing actions of George W. Bush and press far beyond.  The Patriot Acts, the FISA domestic spy bill, the bailouts of corrupt international banks, attempts at CISPA and SOPA, actions like the NDAA authorizing the treatment of U.S. citizens as “enemy combatants” without rights to due process; all paint a picture so clear only a one-celled amoeba (or your average suburban yuppie) would not see it.  You and I, and everyone else for that matter, have been designated potential targets of the state.  Our rights have been made forfeit.

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Tags: Barack Obama, CISPA, Dianne Feinstein, Global News, Government, Guns, NDAA, Obama administration, Politics, SOPA, U.S.

- CISPA passes the House; epic privacy battle moves to the Senate (Natural News, April 30, 2012):

If you’re not familiar with “Washingtonspeak” – that odd, unique variance of the English language in which words don’t really mean what they are supposed to mean – you might not know that the lawmakers who wrote the new Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act (CISPA) aren’t really too concerned about the protection aspect of the legislation, at least as it applies to the general public’s concern about privacy.

Yes, the word “protection” is in the title, but a closer examination of the language of the bill, as well as its intent, by those who know how things works on Capitol Hill, find that the only “protection” the bill offers is that afforded the federal government.

According to a summary of the bill by the Congressional Research Service, the legislation amends “the National Security Act of 1947 to add provisions concerning cyber threat intelligence and information sharing.” In particular, cyber threat intelligence is defined “as information in the possession of an element of the intelligence community directly pertaining to a vulnerability of, or threat to, a system or network of a government or private entity [...]”

What that means, essentially, is that it will be easier for the government and the private sector to share information about cyber threats, which, truthfully, is a major emerging national security problem.

Making conditions ripe for privacy violations – again

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Tags: 1984, ACLU, Barack Obama, Big Brother, CISPA, Congress, Constitution, Dictatorship, George Orwell, Global News, Government, Internet, Law, New World Order, Obama administration, Politics, Senate, Society, Surveillance, Technology, U.S.

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- Here Is The List Of Traitors In The House of Representatives Who Voted For CISPA

Brent Daggett previously reported on how dangerous CISPA really is for End the Lie and I have pointed out how over 3,000,000 businesses across the United States – including companies like Google who opposed SOPA – expressed their support for the bill, which likely played a large role in its passage.

It passed with a 248-168 vote and quite unfortunately, the amended version which was voted on is even worse than it was originally, if you can believe that.

While I thought such a thing would never be possible, indeed the final version of CISPA is considerably more dangerous than the previous incarnations.

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Tags: 1984, ACLU, Barack Obama, Big Brother, CISPA, Constitution, Dictatorship, George Orwell, Global News, Government, Internet, Law, New World Order, Obama administration, Politics, Society, Surveillance, Technology, U.S.

- H.R. 3523: Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act (On Passage of the Bill) (GovTrack.us)

And like with the NDAA Ron Paul didn’t vote!

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- SOPA Mutates Into Much Worse CISPA, The Latest Threat To Internet Free Speech

- CISPA Bill To Obliterate Privacy Laws Under Guise of Cybersecurity, A Blank Check of Privacy Invasion

Tags: 1984, Big Brother, CISPA, Dictatorship, George Orwell, Global News, Government, Law, New World Order, Politics, Surveillance, U.S.

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- SOPA Mutates Into Much Worse CISPA, The Latest Threat To Internet Free Speech

- CISPA Bill To Obliterate Privacy Laws Under Guise of Cybersecurity, A Blank Check of Privacy Invasion (Hot Hardware, April 26, 2012):

There’s a bill currently up for debate in the US House of Representatives that would give companies and government agencies the right to share information when issues of cybersecurity were at stake. If the first thing you thought after reading that was “Wait, don’t we already do this,” the answer is “Yes, we do.” The Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act (CISPA) is drawing fire for certain provisions that drastically expand the definition of what data can be shared and for the way they handle existing data protections.

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Tags: 1984, ACLU, Barack Obama, Big Brother, CISPA, Constitution, Dictatorship, George Orwell, Global News, Government, Internet, Law, New World Order, Obama administration, Politics, Society, Surveillance, Technology, U.S.