Tech at Night: CISPA passes the House, FCC passes campaign regulations, Boehner calls out Obama
Neil Stevens
RedState
4/28/2012
So, the Internet died this week or something. CISPA was amended much, as I gather mostly tightening up some alleged privacy concerns. Then it passed the House. I don’t know if it’ll become law, but it’s a good idea. The comparisons with SOPS are deceptive.
Speaker Boehner cut to the heart of the matter, pointing out that President Obama’s CISPA veto threat was rooted in his desire to control the Internet. The White House was stung enough to reply, but it’s true: CISPA opposition is a ruse to fool feeble minded leftys into thinking Republicans are the threat, rather than the Democrat Cybersecurity bill in the Senate, pushed by Joe Lieberman. It’s Lieberman-Collins that’s the threat to liberty online…
The article continues at RedState.
CAJ note: We still hate the idea of CISPA and the potential danger of whatever language might be hidden in the legislation. That door of the government spying on citizens, once opened, will never close again. The Patriot Act has proven this. We’re just not regulations kind of people here and believe that government (especially this administration and its bureaucrats) has repeatedly proven itself to be untrustworthy and abusive of its authority. We’re not “feeble minded leftys” and think politicians from both parties can be a threat on their own. But we always feel compelled to offer all reasonable points of view on any topic, even if we disagree, so you can decide for yourselves.
