Cory Doctorow at 9:56 am Mon, Feb 18
CISPA is a sweeping, privacy-annihilating Internet law that we killed last year. The Congressmen who introduced it haven’t learned their lesson and they’ve reintroduced it. The price of freedom is eternal vigilance, right? We killed CISPA once before. We will kill CISPA again. It only works if you take part.
Last year, Representatives Rogers and Ruppersberger introduced CISPA, which would create a gaping new exemption to existing privacy law. CISPA would grant companies more power to obtain “threat” information (such as from private communications of users) and to disclose that data to the government without a warrant — including sending data to the National Security Agency.
Tonight on Southern Talk in the Midnight. Join Host Dave Fluee from somewhere in the great Southeast as he digs for newly discovered evidence of Alien and UFO existence. This Guest has new information to release tonight. For their safety we cannot release the name of our guest until the program begins. Join Dave tonight On The Air | 10PM – Saturday Nights PST – 12AM CST. You can listen worldwide online or via a local or shortwave affiliate. Whichever device you choose, be sure not to miss this program tonight! There will be no replays available. You have been warned. Listen...
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