LOL the irony is that when i hear those terms in regards to ANY law i won't trust it and in fact will turn against it. Hell even things like the "Amber Alert Law" as well as the "PROTECT Act" laws were used to censor fictional imagery. Thus we have people being arrested for simpsons porn. Also they were used to get around supreme court rulings that defended such material.
But yeah the more a bill is advertised as being for "protection" or for "saving the children" the more i question it.
---------- Post added 2012-04-28 at 09:45 AM ----------
This one too. I swear even my parents who normally have good reasoning trusted the government with it. I never did.
---------- Post added 2012-04-28 at 09:46 AM ----------
This guy pretty much nailed my worries on the head. Hello 1984.
http://rt.com/news/microsoft-cispa-cyber-security-232/
Microsoft read the new amendments and decided they no longer would support CISPA as it was no longer about protection, it was about "Spying" and big brother. good for them, though they never should have trusted it in the first place imo :P
"By both militarizing the administration of cyber security, creating a broadly based notion of what information can be shared, and allowing the government to use that information in any capacity once it has been obtained, US Representative Ron Paul describing CISPA as "Big Brother writ large."
A mere two steps away from becoming law, Software freedom activist Richard Stallman told RT CISPA undermines the Constitution by nearly abolishing “people’s right not to be unreasonably searched.”
“If you store any data in a US company, that company – with few exceptions – is legally required to hand that data over to US government without even a search warrant, so I think both individuals and governments should take precautions to make sure that their citizens’ data is not being handed over to US companies or their foreign subsidiaries, which are also subject to that same hypocritically named Patriot Act," he warned."
Pretty sure the hell hole that is facebook would go to shit immediately once the internet becomes heavily regulated, no sharing videos of your dog because its wearing a collar with a copyrighted logo on it and then suddenly the fbi is raiding your home for copyright infringement because big brother knows your address, friends, habits, name, probably your credit card info (im 99% sure there was some shit passed that required all encryption services being provided be breakable by the company giving out the services for "national security" or something.
They do not seem to care, as they think that CISPA removes any liablity they have regarding anything any of there posters says or does.
---------- Post added 2012-04-30 at 12:04 AM ----------
And I have never had a facebook or seen a reason to. I have friends that i talk to in real life. If they are far away we can talk on the phone or even instant message..they do not need to know that I came home from work and had a sandwich and drank a scotch. :P (Just my opinion)
---------- Post added 2012-04-30 at 12:06 AM ----------
And I have never had a facebook or seen a reason to. I have friends that i talk to in real life. If they are far away we can talk on the phone or even instant message..they do not need to know that I came home from work and had a sandwich and drank a scotch. :P (Just my opinion)