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We need to stop CISPA

  • 18-04-2013 8:08pm
    #1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 356 ✭✭


    The government again are trying to bring in new laws that threaten to radically change the internet for worse, now they're trying to bring in CISPA which will turn all the major websites into government spies, these are just the first stepping stones for them to turn the internet into something that serves the government, rather than the people so everyone needs to make it official that we're not going to stand it:
    http://www.sitesnotspies.org/
    I don't know whether all the countries in the world are following the USs lead or what, but it seems the world governments are now in a rush to censor and manipulate the internet for their ends, regardless of the fact that the people oppose it. This trend of proposing new restrictions for the internet is only going to continue, and unless we put an end to it, the internet will no longer be the medium for free speech and sharing of information that it is now.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,622 ✭✭✭✭coylemj


    BogMonkey wrote: »
    The internet will no longer be the medium for free speech and sharing of information that it is now.

    And without the 'sharing of information' which is the linchpin of the internet, we'd have no source of conspiracy theories and scare stories and then where would we be?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 40,291 ✭✭✭✭Gatling


    As long as there's free porn

    Who cares :-)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 356 ✭✭BogMonkey


    In the past you could have called this a conspiracy theory, but its actually happening now.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 393 ✭✭godwin


    Learn 2 VPN bro , problem solved.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,111 ✭✭✭ResearchWill


    BogMonkey wrote: »
    The government again are trying to bring in new laws that threaten to radically change the internet for worse, now they're trying to bring in CISPA which will turn all the major websites into government spies, these are just the first stepping stones for them to turn the internet into something that serves the government, rather than the people so everyone needs to make it official that we're not going to stand it:
    http://www.sitesnotspies.org/
    I don't know whether all the countries in the world are following the USs lead or what, but it seems the world governments are now in a rush to censor and manipulate the internet for their ends, regardless of the fact that the people oppose it. This trend of proposing new restrictions for the internet is only going to continue, and unless we put an end to it, the internet will no longer be the medium for free speech and sharing of information that it is now.


    I have not read the act in full yet, http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/BILLS-112hr3523rfs/pdf/BILLS-112hr3523rfs.pdf but what I have read does not it seems to me do as is claimed. Can you point out the sections that turn websites in to spies.


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