[liberationtech] And right on cue, the flush our civil liberties down the toilet boys rear their ugly heads

[Joseph Lorenzo Hall]

On 4/18/13 9:52 PM, Shava Nerad wrote:
> Earlier today, btw, I predicted that this is why CISPA had a chance of
> passing the Senate, unless Leahy or some other eloquent champion spends
> considerable political and social capital smacking it down.

This view isn't shared by many in DC... here's a blurb from today's
Politico story on the passage:

"For now, the two chambers just don’t see eye to eye on cybersecurity —
and the House’s bill as written cannot pass the Senate or earn a
signature from President Barack Obama. [...]

But the Obama administration still isn’t sold on the House’s approach,
which it threatened to veto earlier this week. Even after changes made
at the eleventh hour that addressed some of its criticisms, the White
House stayed silent after CISPA passed.
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The Senate, meanwhile, doesn’t yet have a proposal on information
sharing or most other related areas of cybersecurity reform. And one of
its top cybersecurity voices, Sen. Jay Rockefeller (D-W.Va.), slammed
CISPA in particular Thursday for “insufficient” privacy protections,
even as he praised the House for its progress."

http://www.politico.com/story/2013/04/congress-still-at-cyber-odds-after-cispa-passage-90309.html

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