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CISPA Seems Dead In the US Senate
An anonymous reader writes with this excerpt from The Daily Dot: "A Senate committee aide, who requested to not be named, told the Daily Dot that 'there is no possible plan to bring up CISPA,' in the Senate. The aide cited the fact that the Senate tried to pass its own cybersecurity bill, the Cybersecurity Act of 2012 (CSA). While unsuccessful, it underscored a desire for legislation that took more explicit efforts to protect individuals' Internet privacy. 'There are just too many problems with it,' the aide said of CISPA. This is backed up by U.S. News and World Report, which has reported that a staffer on the Senate's Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation explicitly claims CISPA is no longer a possibility, and senators are 'drafting separate bills' to include some CISPA provisions."
Really? That's interesting.
It was bad law to begin with. Trying to bend technology to a legislative solution is never advantageous for the end users of the tech.
That's all
As a governor once said: "I'll be back."
The cow says "Moo." The dog says "Woof." The Timothy says "Thanks, valued customer. We appreciate your input."
What's really going on? There must be some other way we're being screwed here....
... to implement the provisions, the thing may not be dead. It may be metastisizing.
EOM
Hahahaha +1 !
They will just parse up the bill and add it as amendments to future legislation.
They have been paid far too much money by big business to let it die here.
I like the wording in this article.: "While unsuccessful, it underscored a desire for legislation that took more explicit efforts to protect individuals' Internet privacy." A desire by whom, praytell? No one who uses the internet wants any legislation PERIOD. We don't want explicit protection, we want absolute laissez faire internet the way it is supposed to be. A desire by "lawmakers"? It isn't their job to come up with the ideas behind the legislation. It's their job to do what their constituents want. While, admittedly, the majority of America is retarded and increasingly so - increasingly falling prey to mob opinion and misinformation from every level so that they are still willing to be spoonfed this Constitution-shredding bullshit, I HIGHLY doubt that each district is going out saying "REGULATE OUR INTERNETS". Not happening. Anywhere.
You need to be sure about these things. Maybe throw some salt on there too.
why yes, google. they must be the focus. *facepalm*
obvious troll is obvious.
EVERYTHING is dead.
If you allow yourself to be distracted and take your eye off the ball, you'll likely get hit in the face.
For the athletically challenged: I mean that if you think CISPA is dead and don't pay attention to it, they will ram it through in a last minute push when you're not looking.
No, see this is how bad legislation works, you have a giant angry chunk of nasty, then it gets defeated into smaller chunks of nasty, those get defeated into even smaller chunks of nasty.
Eventually the individual chunks don't seem to matter so they get passed.
In the end some rich guy strokes his dick with money.
You might say that, I couldn't possibly comment!
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Representatives are not Senators.
It seems to me any time Congress tries to write a patch for the legal system it's always a hack and gets rejected because it's so obviously bad. The peer review works, but the actual writing sucks. Maybe it they stopped pair programming with lobbyists and tried a little user acceptance testing we wouldn't waste a ton of time figuring out what to do about guns and drugs and the internet. Maybe if they tested their ideas first? Stopped bragging about their ignorance of the subjects of the laws they write and become informed? Maybe then the laws would write themselves.
That is what they always say, then they find some way to sneak it under the radar. Just like they are trying with Gun Control
Allow me to quote Mr. Kim Dotcom.
"The war for the internet has begun!"
Keep fighting and don't let up a second. Write your Senators, and Representatives. Just let them know that CISPA is an attack on the 4th amendment, 5th amendment and 1st amendment and 9th amendment.
Spread the word and do not let up.
does this mean the end to the anti CISPA pages like the one I saw during Stop Cyber Spying Week on 4-16-13?
Representatives are not Senators.
I'm perfectly well aware of that. What, exactly, is your point?
Ooh! It's dead!
Shove that giant metal spear into it's chest to be sure!
*LIGHTNING BOLT!*
*Zombie CISPA*
It's alive! Let's give it a new name!
We shall call it FOICRRA! Fuck Over Internet Constituency Rights Rapeage Act!
Let's get a vote!
Chas - The one, the only.
THANK GOD!!!
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or it may be...
Any news from an 'unnamed' source is not worth my time.
A Representative is a representative and a Senator is a representative. Capitalization matters. Classically, as in before the 17th Amendment, a Senator was selected by the State and thus a Senator represents his/her State. However, for the past 100 years, we directly elect Senators which requires campaigning before the electorate and we can spend all day discussing the shortcomings of the modern campaign and the questions and confusions of loyalties that result from that.
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Google supported it. They're not the focus but it's pretty clear they were evil.
Anybody else get the email about this? I'm hearing that CNET has a 1000 page document outlining that the government has already allowed companies total immunity from prosecution over backdoors for wiretapping, and they just want to retroactively make it legal with CISPA.
Am I really late on the game here, or not?
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The legislature passes and the President signs off on a bill either granting the exact *opposite* of CISPA, or enacts legislation stating that such measures shall not be legislated or executivized at all.
Otherwise, as others have suggested it may come back chunk by chunk or attached to must pass legislation.... Or have we all gone so brain dead as to not remember this is the second pass at this, which shall imply a third, fourth, or as many times as needed to pass???
Now you may say that there a technological solution could easily be made. Yes it could. But it's not in the works.
Yes it is. It's called TaxCloud, and it's a web service offered without charge to all U.S. Internet retailers, paid for by states participating in the Streamlined Sales and Use Tax Agreement (SSUTA).
different states tax different items in different ways and change them frequently. For instance NYS taxes clothes when an individual item is 110.00 and above but doesn't when it is below. Now what is an item of clothes and what is an accessory (which is fully taxed.)
States participating in SSUTA have simplified their tax codes precisely to minimize this.
We can easily see a technological solution. There is a central database which all transactions refer to (kept in cache via a google API) and which the STATES are responsible to keep updated.
One such database is called TaxCloud.
CIspa is dead which is Great, a bill like should have never even been inspired to come in to existence. I am glad that it is now dead. However Online privacy is still a concern and people are still very vulnerable to cyber attacks. People have started using VPNs (http://goo.gl/Ddp8U) in order to protect their privacy. the people; living in a democratic state; have to pay an extra penny for their privacy, something the govt is liable to do.