New CISPA Cybersecurity Bill Even Worse Than SOPA

An anonymous reader writes "As congressmen in Washington consider how to handle the ongoing issue of cyberattacks, some legislators have lent their support to a new act that, if passed, would let the government pry into the personal correspondence of anyone of their choosing. This is SOPA being passed in smaller chunks... 'H.R. 3523, a piece of legislation dubbed the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act (or CISPA for short) has vague definitions that could allow Congress to circumvent existing exemptions to online privacy laws and essentially monitor, censor and stop any online communication that it considers disruptive to the government or private parties.'"

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Re:Only restrict, never grant.

[gottabeme]

What a skewed perspective you have. Religion isn't as big a deal in the two parties as the media makes it out to be. Calling all Republicans "fundamentalist Christians" (which is really a non-sequitur that can mean whatever the speaker wants it to mean) is ludicrous. And saying that all Republicans want to "control how other people live their lives" is ridiculous as well.

Yeah, there are SOME people who think that homosexuality should be illegal. Well good luck with that. They are a tiny minority. I think it's immoral but even I don't think it should be illegal. You should stop generalizing so much--it's foolish and ignorant. It prevents rational discourse and actual learning.

IMO the Democrats want to control the populace FAR more than the Republicans. Think, Obamacare, taxes, gun control, welfare, job enforcement, and general nanny-state stuff.

Maybe the parties aren't as far apart as they used to be--but it's silly to lump them together like you did, and to lump their internal values together like that. Reality is far more complex.