Posted on 04/26/2012 7:15:54 PM PDT by Nachum
Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), formerly the ranking member on the Intelligence Committee, voted against the measure.
After the vote, she tweeted: "I voted no on #CISPA-it didn't strike the right balance & #GOP didn't allow amendments to strengthen privacy protections." Continue Reading Text Size
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The House adopted several amendments to the bill before passing it, including one by Rep. Mick Mulvaney (R-S.C.) that added a five-year sunset to the bill.
But lawmakers voted to reject a motion to recommit by Rep. Ed Perlmuttter, who sought to add language specifying that nothing in the bill could be construed to allow employers and the government to mandate that employees and job applicants disclose confidential passwords without a court order. The defeated motion also would have added language saying that nothing in the bill could allow the government to block access to the Web through “the creation of a national Internet firewall similar to the ‘Great Internet Firewall of China.'”
Privacy hawks were disappointed with the outcome of the passage vote.
"Americans should be concerned at the extent to which their privacy will be
(Excerpt) Read more at politico.com ...
Another friggin’ law that will have to be settled in court. Damn!
how come every time these wonderkins do something for our security we end up less free
Repubs as bad as deems on thing stuff maybe worse...
I’m sorry. Let rephrase reply #2:
Another friggin’ bill that, if it becomes law, will have to be settled in court. Damn!
how come every time these wonderkins do something for our security we end up less free
Repubs as bad as dems on this stuff maybe worse...
To keep “freedom of speech” safely where it belongs....in the hands of the Government.
...Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), formerly the ranking member on the Intelligence Committee, voted against the measure.
Only for the 90% of "conservatives" who spend their day worrying about Sanford, FL and Obama's vacations.
You can be sure Mr Constitution (Levin) won't utter a peep about it on the air.
Boy, this 2010 Tea Party House sure is for limited government! /sarc
Oh...there won’t be much fuss here on Free Republic just as there wasn’t much fuss over SOFA or NDAA.
This site is going small “f” for “free”.
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I think the thread is dead already. Pathetic.
Glad to see my Pubbie Congressman, Thad McCotter, was one of the few Republicans to vote against this bill.
Here’s some excerpts from this website
Basically this {Quayle’s amendment} 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.
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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.
Most congressional Repubs will protect corporate interests over personal liberty every time.
My company seems to be one of the big donors to the CISPA PAC so I guess we’ll be in position to profit or reap contracts from this bill. meh.
It makes no difference between D or R politicians. They are all beholden to the lobby money. They all look at us citizens as potentially guilty of something while they take money from their corporate bribers and their cash cows.
No corporation should get immunity at the sacrifice of and taxpayer and citizens expense and privacy. We the people are the “owners” of the USA, not corporations or special interests. Our politicians of both Parties look at it as just the opposite.
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