CISPA has been passed in the United States senate. Some say it holds all the government counter measures of SOPA only that it is much more worse piece of draconian internet legislation.
What is CISPA? Think of it as Orwellian internet legislation that gives the government all the access to spy on your internet activities. It also allows the government to target anybody it views to be threatening individuals to the establishment and it officially discontinues the free flow of information.
At the moment it is waiting on congress and executive dictatorial powers to enact it fully.
Most observers say that it will more than likely pass after the senate with congress and the executive dictatorial powers where in effect it will go nationwide for the entire national United States.
By the way, if it goes into effect I am going into hiding off the grid completely.
Lots of luck everybody.
I wonder when the mass dissapearings will happen… HaHa!
Nor really. “Orwellian” is a generic adjective, term.
It definitely will pass merely because the UN controls such things, not Congress.
Congress is really just there for show and precise wording, not the actual laws.
Overuse of smilies - a dead giveaway. This is like Barcelona vs Bayer Leverkusen. For your information, Leverkusen is in Germany. So in this analogy, you are Leverkusen.
I want to nuance this, for what it’s worth. It has a context most of you overlook. The US government is responsible for the development of computers as part of the arms race in the 1940’s, an interest that has been behind virtually every development in the digital age. Most of it would not have been possible without the governments funding and its focus of intent. Even many video game houses are branches of military industries. So it should not be a surprise that, wherever that the internet is becoming a place to create disorder and destabilize powers-that-be, these powers aim to restrict this function, and use all means to re-centralize themselves.
There may be more going on than that, I am not in a position to judge that accurately. But often citizens speaks of the internet as if it belongs to them, and are morally entitled to use it as a tool against the governments influence. I find the Pirate Party very amusing and sympathetic, but their premises aren’t very logical. They’re just open warfare against the government and against rules of property that were accepted until people found out that they could easily get things for free.
You might want to note that EVERY “free-downloader” used to date is designed to allow for stealing and has encouraged it through their advertising and also produced by the major media producers who have sued for internet control to be in their own hands so as to stop theft. It is another case of producing the problem if you want to gain the authority to control the entire game.
