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CISPA Seems Dead In the US Senate

Posted by timothy on from the in-the-senate-dead-is-a-good-disguise dept.

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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  1. The Senate did something right at last. by Stormthirst · · Score: 4, Informative

    That's all

    1. Re:The Senate did something right at last. by T.E.D. · · Score: 5, Funny

      Cherish it. You're not likely to see that again in your lifetime.

      Wrong! Anytime you need something to not get done, the US Senate is there for you. Its like their superpower.

    2. Re:The Senate did something right at last. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Insightful

      I don't know if we can say the *did* something right. It's more like they didn't do something wrong.

    3. Re:The Senate did something right at last. by Charliemopps · · Score: 5, Insightful

      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."

    4. Re:The Senate did something right at last. by netwarerip · · Score: 4, Insightful

      This.
      It will just end up pieced into a bunch of farm subsidy or highway dedication bills over the next few months.

    5. Re:The Senate did something right at last. by TubeSteak · · Score: 4, Insightful

      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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    6. Re:The Senate did something right at last. by cdrudge · · Score: 5, Insightful

      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.

    7. Re:The Senate did something right at last. by DriveDog · · Score: 5, Insightful

      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.

    8. Re:The Senate did something right at last. by i+kan+reed · · Score: 2

      Too bad they did it in secret. I wrote my senators asking them to reject CISPA, and that my vote would hinge on whether they opposed it. Since everything was done in secret, I can't even remotely provide proper feedback into our broken democratic system.
      Hooray broken democracy.

    9. Re:The Senate did something right at last. by CanHasDIY · · Score: 3, Insightful

      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...

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    10. Re:The Senate did something right at last. by Carewolf · · Score: 4, Informative

      Wrong! Anytime you need something to not get done, the US Senate is there for you. Its like their superpower.

      Actually, they are not very good at that either. They just repealed the law that made it illegal for them to do insider trading. So now the senate are once again the only people in the US legally allowed to do insider trading.

      The law repealing it got accepted in record time with no objections.

      So, no. Not even when what they SHOULD do is nothing, can thet manage to do the right thing.

    11. Re:The Senate did something right at last. by GLMDesigns · · Score: 2

      Let's hope they will be good enough to kill the internet sales tax as well.

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    12. Re:The Senate did something right at last. by paulzeye · · Score: 2

      Bruce Schneier commented on this and has some links that may provide a primary source: http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2013/04/securing_congre.html

  2. For now by TWiTfan · · Score: 3, Insightful

    As a governor once said: "I'll be back."

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  3. Wait... we won for once? by danudwary · · Score: 2

    What's really going on? There must be some other way we're being screwed here....

  4. If they're drafting separate bills ... by geckoFeet · · Score: 4, Insightful

    ... to implement the provisions, the thing may not be dead. It may be metastisizing.

  5. Say what? by grenadeh · · Score: 5, Insightful

    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.

    1. Re:Say what? by CanHasDIY · · Score: 2

      Sounds to me that, if we need to be regulating anything, it's the knee-jerk reactionary jackasses scared of their own shadows...

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