The internet has dodged many perils during the past year – SOPA, ACTA, and CISPA, just to name a few. The world wide web has changed the world as we know it. It’s made the world a smaller place, led to amazing discoveries, and even sparked revolution. Google wants us to celebrate our freedom this [...]
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January’s web-wide protests of the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) were effective. They were so effective, in fact, that the alarming piece of legislation fell apart and died in its tracks. The threat is far from over, however, as other nefarious pieces of legislation have popped up in its place, including ACTA and CISPA. Now, [...]
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It wasn’t supposed to happen this way. The House of Representatives was supposed to debate the controversial Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act last night (Thursday) and then vote on it today (Friday). As usual, though, Congress is trying to speed things up before the outcry over the questionable piece of legislation becomes to loud [...]
An online petition to protest the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act, otherwise known as CISPA, has reached over three-quarters of a million signatures. As of this writing, the petition, launched on April 5 on Avaaz.org, has over 765,000 signature. The petition describes CISPA as a bill “that would give private companies and the U.S. [...]
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If there’s one thing that’s become abundantly clear over the last few months, it’s that the internet won’t be completely safe until the government runs out of acronyms. Having safely defeated SOPA and PIPA, and fatally wounded ACTA, along comes CISPA. The Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act of 2011 (CISPA), also known as H.R. [...]
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