If you forgot about CISPA, it’s the latest version of the internet spying bill that Congress has been trying to pass for years. So not only did Edward Snowden alert the American public and the world of the extraordinarily unconstitutional and immoral activities of the NSA and U.S. government, his information also stopped CISPA dead in its tracks…at least for now. It seems the plan is to reintroduce the bill in the fall, by which time the powers that be assume the S&P 500 will be up another 200 points and the public won’t even remember what the NSA is. From The Verge:
US lawmakers have been trying for the past two years to pass new bills that would set up information sharing programs between tech companies and the government. But those bills, including the controversial Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act (CISPA), look like they will be spending even more time in legislative limbo. Bloomberg news reports today that House and Senate lawmakers are holding back on introducing their own versions of CISPA or similar cyber information sharing legislation till at least this fall, due primarily to the public outcry following the revelations of the NSA’s secret internet spying program PRISM and its surveillance of millions of personal phone records.
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Just for the record,if it had not been Snowden it would have been someone else.What occurred was inevitable.Compare the situation pre Snowden to a dam,backed up and ready to burst,but backed up with information much too sensitive to keep suppressed.The powers that be should have no ill will toward Snowden because it had to happen sooner or later.
ReplyDeleteIm waiting to see if the gov uses a drone to get him.
ReplyDeleteThey won't EVER put Snowden on (public) trial. If you anything about NSA, you know they prefer just to hope everything calms down, rather than put their methods and information in the public eye. He's likely to be killed by a CIA agent (otherwise know as an "unidentified assailant"). On another note, remember when the powers that be called Orwell an delusional paranoid-type person, writing fantasy? Riiiight. Looks more like a prophet now, huh? Even Orwell would be totally amazed at where we are today. Keep cheering.
ReplyDeleteI've had many (3) conversations with Andy Harris about this, and he was still convinced the internet needed CISPA or a similar "Protection". Against all my reasoning, he was adamant that we (the government) needed to "fix" the internet.
ReplyDeleteAs many times i told him it's not broken, and when it breaks, we fix it, he wouldn't break.
What say you now, Andy? I know you read here.
Andy Harris voted for CISPA and the Patriot Act twice. WHY??? He always talks about his parents escaping communism and he votes for these laws? He has overstayed his welcome.
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