CISPA: Nightmare Cybersecurity Bill

CISPA, or the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protect Act, also known as HR 3523 is a cybersecurity House bill that's already gained over 100 sponsors and is perhaps the worst of them all. It would allow companies to collect and monitor private communications and share them with the government, and anyone else. So is it really as scary as it sounds? EFF's Trevor Timm explains.

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[b0ondockz]

How about a bill to monitor every phone conversation, every text message, and all internet activity of anybody holding public office? They do work for us after all.

[MetalAcitistJim]

the state is scared that people are gonna think for themselves and find that they're not believing the "reality" scripted for them and that the people will rise out of the anger to prevent another rise of fascism, tisk tisk, collapse is imminent. Be prepared for the incoming storm. Stay safe all.

[chrisholz64]

This means I can't text someone and tell them to fuck off

[Julian Alexander]

lol you wanna do them or something?

[Shezaad Durgahed]

In terms of human beings, this is 3.9 billion people -- 57 percent of the world's population-living under non-democracies and 1.6 billion people living under full-fledged dictatorships. The list of free, non-free and partially-free nations around the world closely correlates to the rankings by different monitoring organizations regarding internet freedom.

This world is controlled by shit governments...kill themmm

[Shezaad Durgahed]

We must destroyed democracy, we are ready for wars against government...

[MonkeyMoonShine]

:)