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Renegade:
Well, you knew that the psychopathic control freaks wouldn't wait long before their next attack on your freedom of speech, and this time around, the name is "CISPA - Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act". So, they're dressing it up as "cyber security" now... Oh puh-lease... <insert mouth-frothing string of obscenities and profanity here />

It's seriously getting difficult to track the sheer number of pieces of legislation designed to strip our freedoms...

Anyways, here's an article on the newest attempt to assassinate freedom of speech:

http://www.activistpost.com/2012/04/fascism-comes-to-internet-introducing.html

The CISPA acronym is probably the most honest of those proposed thus far, and certainly is self-explanatory: the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act. Cybersecurity initiatives themselves are framed in such a way as to declare the free and open Internet to be subsumed into national security infrastructure, thus giving it over to the Pentagon, NSA, and other agents for use in surveillance and even offensive war.  However, CISPA goes one step further to suggest that all information transmitted on this national security infrastructure is fair game for the prying eyes of the State. Most likely the private sector must bow to any and all demands made, or face being labeled as supporters of terrorism.

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They're never going to give up.


* SOPA
* PIPA
* OPEN
* ACTA
* Bill C-11
* HR 1981 PC-FIPA (thanks to TaoPhoenix)
* CISPA (H. R. 3523)
* PrECISE Act (H. R. 3674)
* SECURE IT (S.2151)
* Cybersecurity Act of 2012 (S.2105)

* Online Safety Bill (HL Bill 137) (thanks again to TaoPhoenix)
Am I missing any? Please feel free to add to the list as I know that there are similar pieces of evil legislation in different countries...


EDIT - Updated list.
EDIT - Added several more. (2012-04-06)
EDIT - Added HL 137. (2012-04-11)

TaoPhoenix:
Looks like you missed HR 1981 PC-FIPA.

Renegade:
Looks like you missed HR 1981 PC-FIPA.
-TaoPhoenix (April 05, 2012, 05:55 AM)
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Thanks. I updated the list. I'm sure there are more... unfortunately...

zridling:


If at first you don't succeed, try, try, try again.

These will keep coming until they get one passed. Then they'll amend that one forever until we're back to the Dark Ages. Openness is the enemy of governments. Just look at recent news articles on how widely police use phone jamming technology. PS: No soldiers will be found "fighting" for this freedom.

TaoPhoenix:

They have "improved their model" too.
Witchcraft & Communism was the 1.X model that proved vulnerable to both the passing of the chief opponent (Soviet Union) and it was always a little brittle because it was "binary", either you were or were not Those Things, and the illusion of legitimacy of it all cracked under the absurdity.

This time they have at least a trifecta of Terrorism, Porn vs Children, and Copyright & Patents with help from DRM and TOS.

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