Power vs. The Internet

CISPA Goes to The Floor for a Vote, Privacy Amendments Blocked - Contact Your Senator!
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2013/04/cispa-goes-floor-vote-privacy-amendments-blocked

CISPA is back:
Oppose Cispa if you value any privacy in our digital world:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/apr/18/cispa-2013-house-vote-internet-privacy
http://911blogger.com/news/2013-04-18/110-us-house-just-passed-cispa-undermining-privacy-millions-internet-users

Also:
The Computer Fraud and Abuse Act is the law under which Aaron Swartz and other innovators and activists have been threatened with decades in prison. The CFAA is so broad that law enforcement says it criminalizes all sorts of mundane Internet use: Potentially even breaking a website's fine print terms of service agreement. Don't set up a Myspace page for your cat. Don't fudge your height on a dating site. Don't share your Facebook password with anybody: You could be committing a federal crime.

http://www.fixthecfaa.com/

CISPA Passed. Here's the Roll Call…

http://clerk.house.gov/evs/2013/roll117.xml

Don't ask for your government for your Privacy, take it back

CISPA,Iwas wondering what

CISPA,Iwas wondering what this Boston false flag was really about. Now it makes perfect sense.

First comment sums it up

CISPA 'dead' in Senate, privacy concerns cited (zdnet.com): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5609660

""Undead" is more like. This thing will keep coming back under different names until it passes." -tsotha

Inching towards the tax on speech

http://news.yahoo.com/internet-sales-tax-embraced-no-tax-republicans-071018037--finance.html

http://www.opensecrets.org/news/2013/04/internet-sales-tax.html

Incrementalism.

All transactions traced. You are a criminal if you don't comply. That "mark of the beast" thing is getting uncomfortably real.

DOJ: We don't need warrants for e-mail, Facebook chats

DOJ: We don't need warrants for e-mail, Facebook chats
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-57583395-38/doj-we-dont-need-warrants-for-e-mail-facebook-chats/

FBI Pursuing Real-Time Gmail Spying Powers as “Top Priority” for 2013
http://www.slate.com/blogs/future_tense/2013/03/26/andrew_weissmann_fbi_wants_real_time_gmail_dropbox_spying_power.html

IRS claims it can read your e-mail without a warrant. The ACLU has obtained internal IRS documents that say Americans enjoy "generally no privacy" in their e-mail messages, Facebook chats, and other electronic communications.
http://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/1c2gpg/irs_claims_it_can_read_your_email_without_a/

The FBI released additional documents about its controversial Carnivore technology Thursday, and critics immediately lambasted it as proof that the email-tapping program is more powerful and invasive than the government has disclosed.
http://news.cnet.com/2100-1023-248762.html

FBI uses phony profiles on social networks to track suspects
http://content.usatoday.com/communities/ondeadline/post/2010/03/fbi-uses-phony-profiles-on-social-networks-to-gather-infor...

Facebook scans chats and posts for criminal activity
http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-57471570-93/facebook-scans-chats-and-posts-for-criminal-activity/?tag=postrtcol;mostPop

How Is It That A Random Comment On Reddit Leads To Your Friend Getting Tracked By The FBI? | Techdirt
http://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/drgp9/how_is_it_that_a_random_comment_on_reddit_leads/

CIA tracks global pulse on Twitter, Facebook
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-205_162-57318372/cia-tracks-global-pulse-on-twitter-facebook/

NSA's Domestic Spying Grows As Agency Sweeps Up Data

Terror Fight Blurs Line Over Domain; Tracking Email
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB120511973377523845.html?mod=hps_us_whats_news

NYPD Sargent calls for crackdown on social media dissent: “If you’re not a terrorist, if you’re not a threat, prove it, This is the price you pay to live in free society right now” - http://news.yahoo.com/teenagers-social-media-terrorism-threat-level-hard-assess-131320139.html

The Internet's Own Boy - Official Trailer

A dynamic and tragic portrait of the life of Reddit developer and computer prodigy Aaron Swartz, a champion of open access who grew up to lead the internet community into a new age of data sharing and free speech. Available in Theaters and On Demand June 27.

http://www.slate.com/blogs/future_tense/2014/04/29/_the_internet_s_own_boy_about_aaron_swartz_is_a_kickstarter_funded_docu...