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April 16th, 2012 
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Week of protests against CISPA begins
Steve Watson
Prisonplanet.com
April 16, 2012
A coalition of advocacy groups has begun a week of intensive protests against the latest attack on the free and open internet, The Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act (CISPA). The draconian legislation would force companies to ignore existing privacy laws and share information with the federal government.
At the forefront of the coalition’s protest efforts is a Twitter takeover, whereby users are being asked to use the hashtags #CongressTMI and #CISPA in an attempt to create the same level of publicity that was generated during the height of the protests against The Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) earlier this year.
The organizations are pushing ahead with a mass distribution of letters and articles to raise awareness of the implications of CISPA, which is sponsored by Michigan Republican Mike Rogers.
The groups do not plan on conducting any “blackouts”, shutting down their websites as happened during the SOPA protests. Instead they will focus on informational campaigns aiming to teach people about all the cybersecurity bills currently in Congress.
The revelation that Facebook is supporting the legislation has also raised awareness of the issue ahead of the protests.
“Freedom of expression and the protection of online privacy are increasingly under threat in democratic countries, where a series of bills and draft laws is sacrificing them in the interests of national security or copyright,” Reporters Without Borders said in a statement.
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“A blanket monitoring system is never an appropriate solution. Reporters Without Borders opposes CISPA and ask Congress to reject this legislation.” the statement says.
Other groups taking part in the internet-wide protests include Access Now, American Civil Liberties Union, American Library Association, Avaaz, Canadian Internet Policy and Public Interest Clinic, Center for Democracy and Technology, The Constitution Project, Demand Progress, Electronic Frontier Foundation, Fight for the Future, Free Press, OpenMedia.ca, Open the Government, Privacy Rights Clearinghouse, Reverse Robo Call, Sunlight Foundation, Techdirt, and TechFreedom.
“The Rogers bill gives companies a free pass to monitor and collect communications and share that data with the government and other companies, so long as they do so for ‘cybersecurity purposes,’” the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has noted. “Just invoking ‘cybersecurity threats’ is enough to grant companies immunity from nearly all civil and criminal liability, effectively creating an exemption from all existing law.”
Both the EFF and the Center for Democracy have noted that CISPA effectively legislates for monitoring and collecting online communications without the knowledge of the parties concerned and funneling them directly to the National Security Agency or the DOD’s Cybercommand.
Kendall Burman of the Center for Democracy and Technology spoke about CISPA in a recent interview with RT:
“We have a number of concerns with something like this bill that creates sort of a vast hole in the privacy law to allow government to receive these kinds of information.”
Burman added that the bill, as it stands, allows the U.S. government to involve itself in any online correspondence if it believes there is reason to suspect “cyber crime”, which it does not even clearly define.
Josh Levy, the Internet campaign director of the organization Free Press has noted that the bill “would have a chilling effect on free speech — creating an environment in which we refrain from posting on Facebook, conducting Web searches, sending emails, writing blog posts or communicating online for fear that the National Security Agency — the same agency that’s conducted online “warrantless wiretapping” for years — could come knocking.”
As we reported recently, the defeat of SOPA in January has not stalled the attempted crackdown on the open internet. If anything, government and corporate efforts to control the net have substantially accelerated.
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Steve Watson is the London based writer and editor for Alex Jones’ Infowars.net, and Prisonplanet.com. He has a Masters Degree in International Relations from the School of Politics at The University of Nottingham in England.
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HOw do they think they will do that?
NO one as yet arrested BUSH father or son or Obama????? and they will crush the internet censorship?
come on get real! you comes up with stuff like this anyway?
they have not yet arrested the real evil minds that walk free ???? Ya shure they are going to beat this bill shure they are????
I guess they beat the detention bill also??????
Why do they need to Constantly attack our freedoms? They should be increasing our freedoms not attacking them. In that regard Congress is a complete and total failure.
What is the “Excuse of the Day” this time? The endless worn-out “terrorism” excuse? The real terrorists are the writers of this CISPA bill! They wish to make the Internet a giant Securitate.
I suppose that you would prefer to bitch, than make an effort to DO something?
Vic Reply:
April 16th, 2012 at 11:37 am
not at all. Thats all they say they do bla bla bla bla and what are they doing in reality? voting for abusive detention bills and what about empeachment????
bitching????? How many say I love you and when you look at there actions, they are pushing hatred????? racism and discrimination???? bitching?????
2008 Ron Paul wants to investigate the FED (audit it) where is that movement at?
Bitching?
B.S. nobody is gonna crush the internet. They can try but they will fail. The American people are the most protected people on the planet as long as they follow the rules of our founding father’s. They have set up a system that works. However if you brake the rules it effects everybody. There are always those who will try to cheat the system. They may get by with it for awhile but even a mobster hates a rip off, a traitor and a whimp. Your whining, conspiracy and
libertyorslavery Reply:
April 16th, 2012 at 11:37 am
A gun works pretty well for changing things very quickly… HLS is that gun.
And no… the Internet is the finest tool for control invented since Ricky Called out to Lucy in the 50s. So no it is going nowhere… but its control of speech is on the target list.
Why do you think the men of power in the early 20th century determined that control of something like 25 papers nationally could control speech… did their study in the first place? Yes that is historical fact.
Control of thought is the goal. And yes there is a huge danger… and no I don’t think we will get much from this… … let’s watch… the outcome.
Vic Reply:
April 16th, 2012 at 11:41 am
Like you say: They have set up a system that works. you mean that worked? no?
never forget the following: 1991 George walker Hebert Bush announced a New world order in front of mainstream media and the world?????????
we are now 2012 and look around, they are eating up the constitution and have been and nothing has been done yet?
The system that works like you say, is not working for if it would be working these evil criminals devil worshipers would have been arrested by now no?
suspicion about everything that is beyond your grasp is not helping any one. When you lost all your trust in humanities goodwill you lost everything. Surround yourself with people who still work torch the future and have a positive outlook on life.
Vic Reply:
April 16th, 2012 at 11:42 am
YEP follow the light. for it leads to our freedoms.
“Both the EFF and the Center for Democracy have noted that CISPA effectively legislates for monitoring and collecting online communications without the knowledge of the parties concerned and funneling them directly to the National Security Agency or the DOD’s Cybercommand.”
Total coincidence that NSA just built a computer complex capable on doing that on a global scale 😉
Don’t do Twitter so “hashtags” is new to me! Interesting.
Take a look at the list of supporting groups. The American Library association can not see the difference between porn being accessed in a public library on the local towns dime… and the First Amendment.
The ACLU… is a Jewish legal fund to defend that Tribes world state aims… and the deconstruction of America in that aim… and on rare occasions… they throw a bone in service of their First Amendment creds… whose original godfather said to the Russians… basically… ‘don’t worry our Freedom of Speech front is just that,’ the quote is online.
This is controlled opposition and the article should say at least THAT IS MIGHT BE. NO doubt many people are sincere but we should be aware… . Where this usually ends up is a declared victory with a law that seems attenuated… but in reality gives the Cartel all it wanted or more in the first place.