Mixed Review 4-27-12(CISPA)

The Mixed review is a record of my daily(nightly) readings. I hope it provides a resource for your own projects and projections into the intricacies of our world.


The 1st Item of the night is: Insanity: CISPA Just Got Way Worse, And Then Passed On Rushed Vote.


I DID NOT WRITE THIS ARTICAL BUT AM PUTING IT UP AS A WHOLE BECOUSE IT SHOULD BE READ.

Insanity: CISPA Just Got Way Worse, And Then Passed On Rushed Vote

from the this-is-crazy dept

Up until this afternoon, the final vote on CISPA was supposed to be tomorrow. Then, abruptly, it was moved up today—and the House voted in favor of its passage with a vote of 248-168. But that's not even the worst part.
The vote followed the debate on amendments, several of which were passed. Among them was an absolutely terrible change (pdf and embedded below—scroll to amendment #6) to the definition of what the government can do with shared information, put forth by Rep. Quayle. Astonishingly, it was described as limiting the government's power, even though it in fact expands it by adding more items to the list of acceptable purposes for which shared information can be used. Even more astonishingly, it passed with a near-unanimous vote. The CISPA that was just approved by the House is much worse than the CISPA being discussed as recently as this morning.
Previously, CISPA allowed the government to use information for "cybersecurity" or "national security" purposes. Those purposes have not been limited or removed. Instead, three more valid uses have been added: investigation and prosecution of cybersecurity crime, protection of individuals, and protection of children. Cybersecurity crime is defined as any crime involving network disruption or hacking, plus any violation of the CFAA.
Basically this means CISPA can no longer be called a cybersecurity bill at all. The government would be able to search information it collects under CISPA for the purposes of investigating American citizens with complete immunity from all privacy protections as long as they can claim someone committed a "cybersecurity crime". Basically it says the 4th Amendment does not apply online, at all. Moreover, the government could do whatever it wants with the data as long as it can claim that someone was in danger of bodily harm, or that children were somehow threatened—again, notwithstanding absolutely any other law that would normally limit the government's power.
Somehow, incredibly, this was described as limiting CISPA, but it accomplishes the exact opposite. This is very, very bad.
There were some good amendments adopted too—clarifying some definitions, including the fact that merely violating a TOS does not constitute unauthorized network access—but frankly none of them matter in the light of this change. CISPA is now a completely unsupportable bill that rewrites (and effectively eliminates) all privacy laws for any situation that involves a computer. Far from the defense against malevolent foreign entities that the bill was described as by its authors, it is now an explicit attack on the freedoms of every American.


http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20120426/14505718671/insanity-cispa-just-got-way-worse-then-passed-rushed-vote.shtml

The 2ed Item of the night is: Ron Paul: CISPA is the New SOPA 

The 3ed Item of the night is: Senator Bernie Sanders on corporate personhood.

 The 4th Item of the night is: who voted for CISPA?

This appears to be some teaparty guy's list of CISPA voters.

http://12160.info/profiles/blogs/list-of-traitors-in-the-house-who-voted-for-cispa?xg_source=activity

heres the goverment vertion: http://www.govtrack.us/congress/votes/112-2012/h192

The 5th Item of the Night is: CISPA: the actual  bill.


Bill Text Versions112th Congress (2011-2012)H.R.3523

http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c112:H.R.3523

 

The 6th Item of the night is: how corporations come to power in a "democratic" system.

                                 Murray N. Rothbard on  The Founding of the Federal Reserve 

The 7th Item of the night is: Chomsky on government "intervention."

                                       

This is a great interview with Noam Chomsky, it deserves a full  review but I don't have much time to night so here are a few fine points of interest: 1st, Market societies don't exist, 2ed popular pressure insists on human rights (not big deals), 3ed health care became a priority for the state when the manufacturing industry got involved, 4th everyone should support welfare state in order to press the institutions to their limits while developing "alternative institutions".

The 8th Item of the night is: Boehner: House Will Vote On Student Loans. (NPR)

http://www.npr.org/2012/04/26/151444468/boehner-house-will-vote-on-student-loans