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CISPA Sponsor Says Protests Are Mere 'Turbulence'

Posted by Soulskill on from the don't-make-us-shut-down-the-internet-again-buddy dept.

SolKeshNaranek writes with news that Representative Mike Rogers (R-MI), sponsor of CISPA, has decided to tempt fate by referring to the protests that are springing up as 'turbulence on the way down to landing.' From the article: "What really comes through in the article — which mostly talks about how Rogers has been supposedly working with Google to change some of the language in the bill to make it more acceptable -- is how little concern Rogers has for the public. Instead, most of the article just talks about how he's been working with tech companies to make sure they're okay with the bill. And while that's a start, it's no surprise that lots of tech companies would be okay with CISPA, because it grants them broad immunity if they happen to hand over all sorts of private info to the government. But to then call the protests mere 'turbulence' is pretty damned insulting to the actual people this will impact the most: the public, whose privacy may be violated."

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  1. Re:Wait a procorporation teet sucking Republican R by stms · · Score: 5, Informative

    Why are so many /.ers insisting that Dems are less guilty than the Republicans in this fight we've recently been having over internet freedom. SOPA/PIPA had some bipartison support (and opposition) but it was mostly the Democrates bill. Check out this informative wikipedia article. Both sides are equally full of currupt assholes stop giving one side a free pass just because you think they're ideallistically superior. Idealism doesn't mean shit when you have two wolves (the politcal parties) and a sheep (the people) deciding what's for dinner. They mainly just argue about how they're going to cook us.

  2. Re:Well... by Hatta · · Score: 4, Informative

    Left and Right are completely irrelevant when it comes to civil liberties. One thing that the vast majority of both parties

    In the US, both major parties are right wing. One is just more extreme than the other. There is exactly one moderate in Congress, Bernie Sanders.

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  3. Re:Constituants. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    "... the only violence done was done to us."

    They say smoking pot damages memory, and in your case it seems true.

    I guess you don't remember the Weather Underground, or the Black Panthers.

    I was there too, and I wasn't stoned. You have a selective memory which is quite inaccurate.