Brendan Sasso and Bernie Becker thehill.com Legislation that would empower states to tax online purchases cleared a key hurdle in the Senate on Monday after winning an enthusiastic endorsement from President Obama. Senators advanced the bill in 74-20 procedural vote… Continue Reading
Zack Whittaker zdnet.com The controversial Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act (CISPA) just passed the U.S. House, and will now head to the upper Senate chamber for further deliberation. Rinse and repeat. This isn’t the first time that this has… Continue Reading
Declan McCullagh cnet.com The United Nations is calling for more surveillance of Internet users, saying it would help to investigate and prosecute terrorists. A 148-page report (PDF) released today titled “The Use of the Internet for Terrorist Purposes” warns that… Continue Reading
Joe Wolverton, II New American The secretive conferences where delegates are hammering out the details of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) are effectively rewriting the law for the United States, particularly in the area of intellectual property. The TPP is an… Continue Reading
rt.com ACTA has received a knockout blow from the European Parliament as the majority of MEPs voted in favor of rejecting the controversial trade agreement, which critics say would protect copyright at the expense of freedom of speech on the… Continue Reading
Brendan Sasso thehill.com House lawmakers will consider an international proposal next week to give the United Nations more control over the Internet. The proposal is backed by China, Russia, Brazil, India and other UN members, and would give the UN’s… Continue Reading
Kurt Nimmo Infowars.com April 27, 2012 Once again, Congress has ignored the will of the people. For weeks it has been obvious that millions of Americans are steadfastly opposed to CISPA, the so-called cybersecurity legislation passed by the House last… Continue Reading
Kurt Nimmo Infowars.com April 24, 2012 On Monday, a group of prominent engineers, professionals and academics posted an open letter to Congress stating their opposition to CISPA, the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act that trashes the Fourth Amendment and… Continue Reading
Infowars.com Tuesday, April 17, 2012 A coalition of advocacy groups has begun a week of intensive protests against the latest attack on the free and open internet, The Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act (CISPA). The draconian legislation would force… Continue Reading
rt.com April 9, 2012 As United States lawmakers continue to consider anti-piracy legislation in Congress, they’ve found an ally in Netflix. Now the streaming content giant has created its own super PAC, whose main goal is to promote SOPA-like legislation.… Continue Reading
Alabama Truth Radio Live Broadcast April 9th, 2012 Welcome back! We start the week off by covering the new insidious bill named CISPA, which is just a new more powerful form of the SOPA/PIPA bills from last year. Next we… Continue Reading
Signatures 928 out of 1,000 Petitioning CISPA BILL(the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act)(SOPA RENAMED) Created By Alex Mcclenon pleasanton, CA Why This Is Important The SOPA-like bill; CISPA, would give companies the power to collect information on their subscribers… Continue Reading
rt.com A 23-year-old student from the UK will be extradited to the United States to face trial for operating a website overseas that linked visitors to external pages that hosted copyrighted material. Richard O’Dwyer of Sheffield Hallam University in northern… Continue Reading
rt.com Traditionally known as FuckFBIFriday, this weekend’s eve turned into FuckCIAFriday, as hacktivists downed the official website for the Central Intelligence Agency of the United States cia.gov. At approximately 3:10 p.m. Eastern time one of twitter accounts related to the… Continue Reading
rt.com Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) launches a second round of attacks in an attempt to censor the Internet. After trying to adopt Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and Protect IP Act (PIPA), both pieces of legislation turned out… Continue Reading