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CISPA is the New SOPA
04/27/12(Fri)18:59 No.2844728
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 http://paul.house.gov/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1966
>Earlier
this year, strong public opposition led by several prominent websites
forced Congressional leaders to cancel votes on two bills known in
Washington as “SOPA” and “PIPA.” Both of these bills threatened search
engines and websites with possible shutdowns if the Justice Department
deemed them insufficiently cooperative with our phony “war on terror,”
or if they were merely accused of copyright infringement. Fortunately
the American public flooded Capitol Hill with phone calls and
Congressional leaders dropped both bills.
>But
we should never underestimate the federal government’s insatiable
desire to control the internet. Statists of all parties, persuasions,
and nationalities hate the free, unbridled flow of information, ideas,
and goods via the internet. They resent the notion that ordinary people
can communicate and trade across the world without government filters or
approvals. So they continually seek to impose controls, always under
the guise of fighting terrorism or protecting “intellectual property”
rights.
>The latest assault on internet freedom is called the “Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act,” or “CISPA,” |
