House approves CISPA despite last-minute push by opponents

Cnet.com ^ | 04/26/2012 | Declan McCullagh

[voicereason]

The U.S. House of Representatives today approved a controversial Internet surveillance bill, rejecting increasingly vocal arguments from critics that it would do more to endanger Americans' privacy than aid cybersecurity.

By a vote of 248 to 168, a bipartisan majority approved the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act, or CISPA, which would permit Internet companies to hand over confidential customer records and communications to the National Security Agency and other portions of the U.S. government.

[sickoflibs]

RE :”tell me again why i should waste the fuel to drive to the polls...just another opportunity for a seatbelt ticket ??”

You probably shouldn't be posting that you don't wear seatbelts with this new internet spy law coming out.

Wait till the Republican Tea Party revolution House passes a new Federal seat-belt law.

You have to vote Republican 'To save the country'.

[HKMk23]

One party. Two labels.

Yeah, but for purposes of truth in advertising the names should be changed to "Evil" and "Witless."

[Gilbo_3]

You probably shouldn't be posting that you don't wear seatbelts with this new internet spy law coming out.

actually, i didnt post that i dont wear em...just the FACT that i can get cited for it, regardless, everytime i leave the house, on the whim of the nannies...

soon, even stayin in the house will cross the line of the lords...

[bert]

———Quayle Amendment: ———

We have here the work of an up and coming conservative who is destined for greater things.

I saw him on Cavuto some time ago and was very impressed with his bearing and his words

[Gilbo_3]

and BTW, i was told this was 'federal' hwy 'safety' month...so effectively, the tp missed the opportunity to pass it, they can only enhance and ratchet up the pressure on the states... just like the crystal ball tells us internet providers will go from volunteering info on terrorists, to reporting my online shopping at wallyworld...

once we're all safely restrained in our basements, then the tp will have completed the mission...

[sickoflibs]

I am always worried that Republicans might betray us and work with Dems on an across state line sales tax regulation that forces companies outside of states to collect their sales taxes,.

[arthurus]

In principle I would have to oppose this thing but the reality is that this crap is already happening. The law only makes it officially permitted. Whether or not the services are “handing over” the material, the government is getting it, all of it. Making it legal, I suppose, makes the info legally available for use in prosecuting or shutting down citizens and services for whatever.

[arthurus]

I thought we voted in a Republican Majority in the US House so this kind of crap would not occur.

We work hard and we get our guys elected but the reality is that at the moment when their elections are secured they cease to be our guys. The money available to them in open and covert bribery and general corruption is far greater for liberals and totalitarians than it is for conservatives, enough so that the knowledge that they might be there for but a single term if they abandon those who elected them is not enough to "keep them honest." It is essentially a protection racket up there. Corporate money flows to the politicians (and bureaucrats) who are in a position and and have the proclivity to hurt you. It is protection money. Conservative officeholders already oppose regulation and taxation thus don't have to be placated. Liberal officeholders' financial status is upgraded tremendously in one term, Conservatives in office do not share in that largesse.

[arthurus]

A seatbelt violation easily becomes a citation enhancement for a motorist who, when pulled over for whatever, says “huh?” instead of “I’m sorry, Sir, yes Sir, I deserve more, Sir” whether he is wearing one or not.

[Cowman]

tell me again why i should waste the fuel to drive to the polls...just another opportunity for a seatbelt ticket ???

I find it interesting how much the arguments can change over time. I remember when Jerry Williams was leading the fight against seatbelt laws in MA and even got the law overturned in the late eighties. A few years later the law was put back in and now it's taken for granted that it has always been that way and we just want the points to not go on our insurance.

There's no reflection on the battle over mandatory insurance laws, seatbelt laws, the major fight over federal speed limits or even the loss of personal liberty that income tax caused.

It's the Overton Window.

[af_vet_rr]

So much for Republicans looking out for us....

There has got to be a conspiracy among House Republicans to piss off Conservatives and get young people out to vote for Obama, because that's what this kind of crap does.

I expect this crap out of Pelosi, not the other way around. I said Lamar Smith will take this as a sign that he can sneak SOPA through, and he wants to pass it pretty badly to satisfy his Hollywood donors.

[af_vet_rr]

I know clueless “conservative” Lamar Smith must have voted for it.

Of course he did. Lamar Smith stops being conservative the moment he can help his Hollywood buddies out - don't forget that he plans on eventually SOPA. He was really pissed that the public got upset with him over SOPA, but it motivated him to keep on trying to pass it.

CISPA + SOPA = Republicans acting like the Chinese government, while at the same time helping get young people out to vote for Obama and driving Conservatives away from the GOP.

Maybe these Republicans are secretly trying to destroy the GOP from within, because between their actions in the House, and Romney getting closer to the nomination, that's what's going to happen.

[Wilhelm Tell]

There is a certain sort of stupid “conservative” who claims to be for limited government. But say the words “law and order” or “national security” and these same “conservatves” salivate, go into convulsions and emerge off the floor as unlimited government super-fascists.