Texas CISPA Bill Scheduled for Monday Vote
The Texas CISPA bill, approved unanimously by the House last week, may be passed by the Legislature within 24 hours. It has been scheduled for a vote on Monday.
The bill, now slightly altered SB 1052 in the Senate, does the following:
- Requires any Internet provider that serves Texans to hand over private communication and files.
- Sets no standard for warrants for such seizures, enabling arbitrary violations of Texans’ privacy.
- Forces Internet providers to respond within 15-30 days (and sometimes 4-30), giving them almost no time to protect information not targeted.
- Makes it a crime for an officer, director or owner of a company to not comply with the request within the 15-30 day window.
- Opens the door to politically-motivated seizures of online communication.
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Infowars: U.N.’s ITU pursues Internet control — again — this week
Violet Blue
zdnet.com
May 13, 2013The Fifth World Telecommunication/ICT Policy Forum (“WTPF-13″) will be held in Geneva, Switzerland, this week for three days, May 14-16.
As with the bellicose WCIT-12 (the U.N.’s 2012 World Conference on International Telecommunications) last December in Dubai and its accompanying protests and dramatic walkout by the U.S. delegation, this Forum will be run by the United Nations notoriously dubious telecommunications arm, the ITU.
WTPF-13 — with its Twitter hashtag #WTPF13 and counter-tag #OpWTF — is ITU’s final preparation forThe 2014 ITU Plenipotentiary Conference (“PP-14″), ITU’s Fall 2014 plenipotentiary meeting.
In February, outgoing U.S. Federal Communications Commissioner Robert McDowell testified to Congress in a joint U.S. House subcommittee hearing on international Internet governance that U.N.’s ITU Internet plans “must be stopped.”
Should You Go to Jail for Unlocking Your Phone? (by ReasonTV)
Meet The New CISPA, Same As The Old CIPSA
Last year, thanks to a public outcry, the effort to pass overreaching cybersecurity legislation stalled in the Senate. Now supporters have reintroduced the House version of that legislation — the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act (CISPA).
The “new” version is in fact identical to the original CISPA — and poses the same threat to our digital civil liberties and our freedom to connect online.
Here’s what we had to say about CISPA last April:
CISPA would allow companies and the government to bypass privacy protections and share all sorts of information about what Americans do online. The legislation makes it far easier for authorities and private companies to spy on your email traffic, comb through your mobile texts, filter your online content and even block access to popular websites.
The new CISPA — just like the old CISPA — would protect companies like Facebook and Microsoft from legal liability when they hand over your sensitive online data to the federal government, without any regard for your privacy. The bill would permit the government — including the National Security Agency and the Department of Homeland Security — to use that information for matters that have nothing to do with cybersecurity. The whole process would, of course, take place behind closed doors, with no accountability to the public.
Last year’s activism succeeded in improving a similar bill in the Senate, before that bill ultimately failed to move forward. At the time, President Obama vowed to veto any destructive CISPA-like bill that reached his desk.
This time around, for a number of reasons — including changes in Obama’s staff and shifting political dynamics — it’s unclear if the president would once again commit to vetoing CISPA. So if this “new” bill goes farther than it did last time around, we simply don’t know what will happen.
If CISPA becomes law, it will be a major blow to our online privacy. But more than that, CISPA’s passage would have a chilling effect on our freedom to connect online. We won’t feel as free to state unpopular opinions, or to speak truth to power, if we know that Big Brother is getting a feed of everything we say and do.
This is not what the free and open Internet is about. We need to bury this bill for good.
Related: Obama Declares His Support For The Cybersecurity Act of 2012
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Alex's Blog: School Board Wants To Take Copyrights Away From Students And Teachers
Donna Anderson
Infowars.com
February 11, 2013
Photo: Chance Agrella.
A proposal under consideration by a school board in Upper Marlboro, MD, is intended to protect the privacy rights of the school district but it may end up stifling creativity. If it passes, Prince George County Board of…
This happening now at least one school I know of. Its a college called Degipen. All student works are owned by the school, who is owned by Nintendo of America. I am surprised not more schools are doing this deed.
Copyright is nothing more then goverment granted monopoly on ideas.
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What is CISPA? (by LibertyNewsNetwork1)
What is CISPA?
The Cyber Intelligence Sharing & Protection Act is a proposed bill that will essentially give the government, private security agencies, and corporations the right to anonymously access your private information on your computer and let them do with it what they please. The bill was proposed in hopes to cut down on piracy, but CISPA poses much more problems for citizens than actually fixing them.
Copyright Industry Calls For Broad Search Engine Controls
From Slashdot.org:
The copyright battles going on right now are not all about SOPA, PIPA, or even the wider-reaching ACTA: suraj.sun snips thus from TorrentFreak: “At a behind-closed-doors meeting facilitated by the UK Department for Culture, Media and Sport, copyright holders have handed out a list of demands to Google, Bing and Yahoo. To curb the growing piracy problem, Hollywood and the major music labels want the search engines to de-list popular filesharing sites such as The Pirate Bay, and give higher ranking to authorized sites. … If the copyright industry had their way, Google and other search engines would no longer link to sites such as The Pirate Bay and isoHunt. In a detailed proposal handed out during a meeting with Google, Yahoo and Bing, various copyright holders made their demands clear. The document, which describes a government-overlooked ‘Voluntary Code of Practice’ for search engines, was not intended for public consumption but the Open Rights Group obtained it through a Freedom of Information (FOI) request.”
Rose by any other name would be called censorship. If they can do this. What other things will they demand from search engines? Will they make certain worlds illegal to use in a search?
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Are You Ready For The Universal Internet ID That Barack Obama Wants To Impose On All Of Us?
The American Dream
Jan 20, 2011The Obama administration is developing a “universal Internet ID” program that would watch, track, monitor and potentially control your activity on the Internet. These“trusted identities” are being touted as a way to increase safety and security on the Internet and as a way to eliminate the need for dozens of different usernames and passwords. But is a universal Internet ID that is issued and controlled by the U.S. government really a good idea? Right now, Obama administration officials are trying to make it seem as non-threatening as possible. They are insisting that it will not be mandatory. They are insisting that it would be impossible for hackers to steal the universal Internet identities. They are insisting that none of our personal information will be gathered or used by federal agencies. But in light of how regularly the government has abused our liberties and freedoms in recent years in the name of “security”, should we really believe what they are saying about this new universal Internet ID?
Perhaps to assuage concerns about “Big Brother”, the Obama administration is proposing that the U.S. Commerce Department be the one to oversee these new universal Internet identities.
But how long do you think it would take for the Department of Homeland Security (along with several dozen other government agencies) to get involved in “administering” these “trusted identities”?
The potential for government abuse of such a system is absolutely staggering. As we have seen so many times over the past few years, when you give government bureaucrats an inch, often they end up taking several miles.
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ACTA Explained - Spread the Word (by btb617)
ACTA will ruin the Internet as we know it. Spread this video as much as you can to let the public know about it so we can try to stop it. SOPA is nearly dead but the government will never stop trying to take our rights away unless we fight!
Discussion of the Bill:
http://reddit.com/r/acta
ACTA Petitions:
http://www.stopp-acta.info/english/get+involved/petition/petition.html
ACTA Secret: Obama Lord of the RIAA Copyright Trolls Movie Trailer Mike Mozart STEAL THIS VIDEO! (by JeepersMedia)
ACTA is being Created by the Nest of RIAA Copyright Trolls the USA President Obama Hand Picked for his Department of Justice!
SIGN the FREE RICHARD O’DWYER Online Petition! http://www.gopetition.com/petitions/stop-extradition-fair-uk-trial-for-richar…
The RIAA hand Picked Copyright Trolls are Crafting and controlling these laws Worldwide and USA President Obama gave them ALL the Power and Money to Do it!
LINKS;
Obama Appoint the 5th RIAA Attorney
http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2009/04/obama-taps-fift/
Obama: Stop Filling Administration with RIAA Insiders
http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2009/04/obama-stop-fill/
Obama Supports 150,000 fine per infringed work
http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2009/03/obama-sides-wit-2/
Obama Declares Proposed IP Treaty a “National Security Secret”
http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2009/03/obama-declares
Obama Supports the RIAA Against Jammie Rasset Thomas
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-10201831-38.html
Obama Proves He Is an RIAA Lapdog
http://ilikekillnerds.com/2011/01/obama-proves-he-is-an-riaa-lapdog/
Obama Supports $150,000 Per Infringed Work Wired
http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2009/03/obama-sides-wit-2/
Obama Keep Filling the DOJ with RIAA Attorneys
http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2009/04/obama-keep-fill/
Evaluating Congress’s Response to Online Piracy (Julian Sanchez) (by catoinstitutevideo)
http://www.cato.org/event.php?eventid=8841
Cato Institute research fellow Julian Sanchez discusses the Stop Online Piracy Act and the Protect IP Act on Capitol Hill.
SUPPORT HR 3785, A BILL TO REPEAL THE INDEFINITE DETENTION OF US CITIZENS PROVISION (SECT. 1021) OF THE NDAA
Click the above link to contact your Congressmen, it only takes a few seconds.
It worked for SOPA and this is so much more important.
Read the bill HERE.
Though, truthfully, the president already has this ability. In fact, the entire Bill of Rights has already been underminded by presidential authority. There’s a huge list of these things. But, nonetheless, the NDAA just reaffirms the presidents authority already granted to him through the AUMF.
What I’m saying is that even without the NDAA, the president can already detain you indefinitely, without due process, regardless of your American citizenship.
Here’s a link to the list of presidential authorities that we seem to ignore, all of which have the ability to really fuck your shit up. This NDAA thing is getting a lot of attention, as it should, but it’s ironic that we ignore the list of other egregious presidential powers that were not given to the president in the Constitution.
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SUPPORT HR 3785, A BILL TO REPEAL THE INDEFINITE DETENTION OF US CITIZENS PROVISION (SECT. 1021) OF THE NDAA
Click the above link to contact your Congressmen, it only takes a few seconds.
It worked for SOPA and this is so much more important.
Read the bill HERE.
