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SOPA is back, and it's called CISPA now
13 years ago
Hi, Internet. Time to fight again.
We beat SOPA/PIPA in January. Awesome. But we knew that the powers behind it would fight back and try again. They have. And it's worse.
CISPA - the Cyber Intelligence Sharing & Protection Act - is a bill which allows the government and private companies to share any information with each other if such information is somehow related to a "cyber threat". This means privacy protection laws no longer apply as long as you mumble something about "cybersecurity".
A "cyber threat", according to CISPA, is anything from hacking a power grid to torrenting a Lady Gaga album. And, of course, nobody has to prove that anything's going on, they just have to "suspect" a "threat".
For example: Your employer mumbles something to Facebook about "cybersecurity" while handing them a bunch of money. Facebook then gives your employer access to your account. Facebook does not have to tell you they did this, and you cannot sue them for it. Now your employer knows that you fuck people in a dog suit.
Oh, and the MPAA and RIAA can use it to sue more people. But seriously, Facebook telling your boss that you fuck people in a dog suit. This can happen under CISPA, and there'll be nothing you can do about it.
(Yes, Facebook has come out and said "oh no we'd NEVER ever do that sort of thing" but come on, they're Facebook.)
(Also, yes, I know that you'd never talk about your fursuit sex habit on Facebook, but have you made a passing reference to something you did at Anthrocon? And has one of your Facebook friends posted a picture of you in suit? And can that somehow be traced to your FurAffinity account? There are people who get paid ridiculous amounts of money to find these connections. Any half-decent private investigator can find you out if you've ever so much as touched the Internet.)
Now, this is going to be more difficult to fight than SOPA and PIPA, because we're less likely to have gigantic corporations on our side. Gigantic corporations hated SOPA, because they would have to do a whole bunch of costly police work on their user base. But gigantic corporations love CISPA, because they're allowed to remain completely anonymous and face NO legal liability for handing your personal information over to whoever the hell asks nicely enough. They can publicly say, "we're 100% committed to our users' privacy and never reveal their personal data", but then go right ahead and do it anyway without being required to tell you. And if you find out, then you can't sue them. (Which, right now, you can, by the way)
SOPA was the "Stop Online Piracy Act". CISPA is more like the "Stop Online Privacy Act". Except it'll actually succeed at doing that.
We beat SOPA/PIPA in January. Awesome. But we knew that the powers behind it would fight back and try again. They have. And it's worse.
CISPA - the Cyber Intelligence Sharing & Protection Act - is a bill which allows the government and private companies to share any information with each other if such information is somehow related to a "cyber threat". This means privacy protection laws no longer apply as long as you mumble something about "cybersecurity".
A "cyber threat", according to CISPA, is anything from hacking a power grid to torrenting a Lady Gaga album. And, of course, nobody has to prove that anything's going on, they just have to "suspect" a "threat".
For example: Your employer mumbles something to Facebook about "cybersecurity" while handing them a bunch of money. Facebook then gives your employer access to your account. Facebook does not have to tell you they did this, and you cannot sue them for it. Now your employer knows that you fuck people in a dog suit.
Oh, and the MPAA and RIAA can use it to sue more people. But seriously, Facebook telling your boss that you fuck people in a dog suit. This can happen under CISPA, and there'll be nothing you can do about it.
(Yes, Facebook has come out and said "oh no we'd NEVER ever do that sort of thing" but come on, they're Facebook.)
(Also, yes, I know that you'd never talk about your fursuit sex habit on Facebook, but have you made a passing reference to something you did at Anthrocon? And has one of your Facebook friends posted a picture of you in suit? And can that somehow be traced to your FurAffinity account? There are people who get paid ridiculous amounts of money to find these connections. Any half-decent private investigator can find you out if you've ever so much as touched the Internet.)
Now, this is going to be more difficult to fight than SOPA and PIPA, because we're less likely to have gigantic corporations on our side. Gigantic corporations hated SOPA, because they would have to do a whole bunch of costly police work on their user base. But gigantic corporations love CISPA, because they're allowed to remain completely anonymous and face NO legal liability for handing your personal information over to whoever the hell asks nicely enough. They can publicly say, "we're 100% committed to our users' privacy and never reveal their personal data", but then go right ahead and do it anyway without being required to tell you. And if you find out, then you can't sue them. (Which, right now, you can, by the way)
SOPA was the "Stop Online Piracy Act". CISPA is more like the "Stop Online Privacy Act". Except it'll actually succeed at doing that.
and I've heard rumors that amendments to cispa is to be expected to water it down
as well as the crap it allows be volunatry
but still, we need to stop this bill.