CISPA: New Support Comes After Convenient Visit

[Hoofbite]

On Monday, the same day that IBM flew nearly 200 executives to Washington D.C. to lobby Congress in support of CISPA, 36 members of the House signed onto the bill as new co-sponsors. Prior to Monday, CISPA had only 2 co-sponsors since being introduced in February.

I wonder what kind of talks they had......

http://maplight.org/content/73226

 

[ThaBigP]

I wonder what kind of talks they had......

http://maplight.org/content/73226

Probably the "I'll scratch your back ..." type. And I hope POTUS does a better job vetoing this than he did NDAA.

On a side note, I literally laugh out loud at the difference between the reaction to SOPA and CISPA. All the Kewel Kiddds on FB/Twitter were handing out text-over-picture memes demanding SOPA die, DIE, DIE!!!! ... because Google and Facebook told them to. With CISPA it's dead silence from the Kewel Kiddds. The reason? I can only say that SOPA gave the gov't power over web properties - they had their hand on the plug and could yank an entire domain if copyright infringement had been reported. But with CISPA, the same data sharing is there, only under the guise of giving web companies a little badge and uniform ... they're now "partners" with gov't in spying on us and handing over their aggregated data to the gov't. Too bad the Kewel Kiddds didn't notice...

 

[Hoofbite]

Kids are too detached from politics to know what to do unless told otherwise.

That and SOPA looked to have a real chance at being passed. I wouldn't worry, I have little doubt that CISPA will get similar treatment if it gets that far.