only passed by the house
not the senate
hopefully someone wills step up
ill be off the internets if this passes the senate and sign into law
by o bummer
As I understand it the White House has vowed to veto the bill. This is just political strategy.
Just like Obozo said he was going to veto NDAA, but then he waited til new years eve and signed it into law when no one was paying attention.
i'm all fucked up here ....... is it obama's fault?, or bushes fault?, or did reagan set it up to become clinton's fault?
or is it our fault for being o.k. with getting fucked coming and going ...... every day for the last 50 years?
The battle lines are drawn. We must bombard our senators in protest! This is just the latest outrage in the attempt to monitor and control every phase of our lives.
"The White House believes the government ought to control the Internet, government ought to set standards and government ought to take care of everything that's needed for cybersecurity," Boehner told reporters at his weekly news conference. "They're in a camp all by themselves."
Faced with widespread privacy concerns, Rogers and Rep. C.A. "Dutch" Ruppersberger of Maryland, the Intelligence panel's top Democrat, pulled together an amendment that limits the government's use of threat information to five specific purposes: cybersecurity; investigation and prosecution of cybersecurity crimes; protection of individuals from death or serious bodily harm; protection of minors from child pornography; and the protection of national security.
Said Rep. Joe Barton, R-Texas: "Until we protect the privacy rights of our citizens, the solution is worse than the problem."
Countering criticism of Big Brother run amok, proponents argued that the bill does not allow the government to monitor private networks, read private emails or close a website. It urges companies that share data to remove personal information.
"There is no government surveillance, none, not any in this bill," Rogers said.
"In an effort to foster information sharing, this bill would erode the privacy protections of every single American using the Internet. It would create a 'Wild West' of information sharing," said Rep. Bennie Thompson of Mississippi, the top Democrat on the House Homeland Security Committee.
Just can't figure why anyone would or could vote for a republican's.
You sound like a republican that is odd?
I fail to see how any of this is an issue much less worse than what the ridiculous liberals were trying to do:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/47196773/ns/technology_and_science-security/?ocid=ansmsnbc11#.T5o1XFIuiSo
So does anyone have a cogent argument as to why this bill is not good and how on Earth the republicans are bad or wanting to spy on you when the democrats version did just that...
Are some of you simply reading the title of a bill and not the actual substance?
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"Once in government hands, this information can be used for undefined 'national security' purposes unrelated to cybersecurity," a coalition that included the American Civil Liberties Union and former conservative Rep. Bob Barr, R-Ga., wrote lawmakers Thursday.
Faced with widespread privacy concerns, Rogers and Rep. C.A. "Dutch" Ruppersberger of Maryland, the Intelligence panel's top Democrat, pulled together an amendment that limits the government's use of threat information to five specific purposes: cybersecurity; investigation and prosecution of cybersecurity crimes; protection of individuals from death or serious bodily harm; protection of minors from child pornography; and the protection of national security
Said Rep. Joe Barton, R-Texas: "Until we protect the privacy rights of our citizens, the solution is worse than the problem."
Countering criticism of Big Brother run amok, proponents argued that the bill does not allow the government to monitor private networks, read private emails or close a website. It urges companies that share data to remove personal information.
"There is no government surveillance, none, not any in this bill," Rogers said.
Said Rep. Joe Barton, R-Texas: "Until we protect the privacy rights of our citizens, the solution is worse than the problem."