APRIL 22, 2013
CISPA, the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act, is a misnomer. It's not framed as any sort of protection for cyperspace or the vast majority of its inhabitants, like you and me. In fact, it's just the opposite.
Contact your Senator, and any other Senators you care about: http://www.senate.gov/general/contact_information/senators_cfm.cfm
A more accurate name would be the Corporate Internet Piracy and Selling Act.
The wording of the bill (click here for the current text and moneytrail on HR 3523) is about turning the web into an unlimited raiding party for any private sector firm to plow into your posts, your emails, your social networking accounts, and anything else, mine it for anything they please, and share it with any government agency or even with other firms if they like.
Your IP is on the block. So is everything about you.
Your creative work is now up for grabs, and Microsoft or Facebook can help themselves -- under the totally misapplied label of national security.
You will have absolutely no recourse. There is no judicial oversight for any of this staggering invasion of privacy.
Contact your Senator, and any other Senators you care about: http://www.senate.gov/general/contact_information/senators_cfm.cfm
It's the end of independent bloggers with rare diseases, offering hope and info and support to each other and others like us -- and unlike us. Any of us could be wiped out without warning, for saying one commercially inconvenient thing.
If you were worried about the government being able to spy on you before, you are about to enter a whole new realm of being right. These companies can report any of your activity, to any branch of the government, at any time... without telling you, without representation, without any right of appeal, without any form of recourse or redress. You can't even ask if they've done so! No warrants, subpoenas, or notification of any kind are provided for.
Still want to participate in those edgy artistic, educational or political groups? You are about to be exposed to a level of invasive percipience that's totally new in the real world.
Thought police, literally, can mine and trade and report your thoughts and work to the least convenient authority, and profit by it.
Contact your Senator, and any other Senators you care about: http://www.senate.gov/general/contact_information/senators_cfm.cfm
CISPA is stupid, thoughtless, bad for education, bad for the economy, bad for the web, and certainly bad for me and you.
Let your Senator know that it's up to them to stop the vile idiocy perpetrated by the lower House and you will be watching to make sure that they do it.
Contact your Senator, and any other Senators you care about: http://www.senate.gov/general/contact_information/senators_cfm.cfm
