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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."
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I don't know if we can say the *did* something right. It's more like they didn't do something wrong.
... to implement the provisions, the thing may not be dead. It may be metastisizing.
enators are 'drafting separate bills' to include some CISPA provisions.
Apparently you missed that part. Let me translate: "Who gave this damned thing a name? All the hippies are up in arms over it again! Scrap it, pull the wording out and we'll introduce different parts of it at different times so they don't have an easy target to complain about. Also, we'll all be able to separately oppose parts of it while supporting others, there-by shift blame all over so no-one can target any of us directly when the they realize we passed it anyway."
This.
It will just end up pieced into a bunch of farm subsidy or highway dedication bills over the next few months.
senators are 'drafting separate bills' to include some CISPA provisions
Death by guillotine vs death by 1000 cuts
Being on cut #549 is not much of a victory.
You're still going to end up dead..
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My guess is it will be the Boston Marathon Relief Act, or the Stop Terrorism Act, or some feel good sounding name that makes people want to support it just because they don't want to be labeled as supporting terrorism...or not supporting victims of Boston or whatever.
Exactly. Liberties usually don't get cancelled wholesale, they're chipped away until only skeletons remain. Both easier to slip each bit in under the radar and easier to avoid blame for doing so.
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.
Since everything was done in secret, I can't even remotely provide proper feedback into our broken democratic system.
Sure you can - your democratically elected, public officials attempted to secretly alter public policy; Therefore, they are not worthy of re-election.
Apart from that, you can always hound them about their secret activities, and when they try to give you some bullshit excuse, use their own words against them:
If you have done nothing wrong...
An enigma, wrapped in a riddle, shrouded in bacon and cheese