[quote]President Obama threatened on Tuesday to veto a major cyber security bill unless Congress amends it to include more protections for privacy and civil liberties.
The veto threat comes just a day before a possible vote in Congress on the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act of 2013, or CISPA. The bill aims to make it easier for companies to share information about cyber attacks with other companies and the government.
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[quote]"The Administration still seeks additional improvements and if the bill, as currently crafted, were presented to the President, his senior advisors would recommend that he veto the bill," the statement reads.[/quote]
[url]http://www.latimes.com/business/technology/la-fi-tn-obama-threatens-veto-of-cispa-bill-20130416,0,5917419.story[/url]
How nice of him.
Brobama strikes again.
-I'm so fucking bad at reading, you may as well just put lipstick on my nipples and call me Saucy McClair-
Thank god. We don't need restrictive internet legislation ever.
It'll just come back in different forms until it actually passes.
THANKS, OBAMA!
No seriously, thanks man, you're pretty cool.
Threaten? Why not full out just give the finger to the bill.
[QUOTE=valkery;40307573]Thank god. We don't need restrictive internet legislation ever.[/QUOTE] Very appropriate avatar.
Looks like Obama is trying to rack up some cool kid points by doing this.
[QUOTE=TheJoker;40307779]It'll just come back in different forms until it actually passes.[/QUOTE]
It really can't [I]not[/I] come back. There's no intrinsic reason why, ultimately, the Internet will be less restricted or monitored than mail or phone services. Now that the Internet is becoming a major political and corporate interest, a more overt governmental aspect is inevitable.
This is something I've been thinking about lately. What makes the Internet intrinsically anonymous? What is the difference in privacy from going out to a store to buy something versus going to an online store and buying something?
[QUOTE=KillerJaguar;40308143]This is something I've been thinking about lately. What makes the Internet intrinsically anonymous? What is the difference in privacy from going out to a store to buy something versus going to an online store and buying something?[/QUOTE]
There really isn't, but making it so it becomes impossible for people to try to keep anonymous while online basically for the singular purpose of making corporations happier is something I am deeply against.
Plus there is less judgement when buying something online. It's kinda like using the self check-out, but easier and more convenient, when used in relation to shopping.
[QUOTE=valkery;40308192]There really isn't, but making it so it becomes impossible for people to try to keep anonymous while online basically for the singular purpose of making corporations happier is something I am deeply against.
Plus there is less judgement when buying something online. It's kinda like using the self check-out, but easier and more convenient, when used in relation to shopping.[/QUOTE]
It's nothing like self checkout. Online shopping doesn't have those [I]fucking scales that never work[/I]
Yeah, he said that about the NDAA, too. Then he signed it while complaining about how he didn't like it.
[QUOTE=Ridge;40308300]Yeah, he said that about the NDAA, too. Then he signed it while complaining about how he didn't like it.[/QUOTE]
i heard not signing it would have meant the military's funding not being renewed due to those fucking annoying piggybacking bills. i legit don't know if this is true though
[QUOTE=Ridge;40308300]Yeah, he said that about the NDAA, too. Then he signed it while complaining about how he didn't like it.[/QUOTE]There is a difference between a dubious cyber-security bill and the budget for the entirety of the DoD.
[editline]16th April 2013[/editline]
[QUOTE=Cone;40308357]i heard not signing it would have meant the military's funding not being renewed due to those fucking annoying piggybacking bills. i legit don't know if this is true though[/QUOTE]Yes, NDAA is the budget for the DoD, IE: the military.
[quote]The bill aims to make it easier for companies to share information about cyber attacks with other companies and the government.[/quote]
I'm sorry that I sound like a hippie/conspiracist, but I honestly do not trust corporations to use this power for the good of the consumer.
Wow, did not see this coming. I thought CISPA would blow through Congress and into law like a rocket sled on rails, after what happened in Boston.
[QUOTE=Ridge;40308300]Yeah, he said that about the NDAA, too. Then he signed it while complaining about how he didn't like it.[/QUOTE]
Fucking people and the NDAA. You can't not sign the NDAA, it's the militaries annual budget. It just got some unfortunate, but hardly different things added onto it.
Newsflash, they've been able to do it since the patriot act was signed.
They don't pass plenty of budgets. Budgets related to EVERY aspect of the US government. They can do so for just one part of it as well.
[QUOTE=TheJoker;40307779]It'll just come back in different forms until it actually passes.[/QUOTE]
isnt cispa just the zombie bastard child of SOPA and PIPA which were zombie children of other failed bills
at least obama is concerned with private civil liberties for once, as it is it doesn't stop the NSA from reading this, my email, logging into my 4chan account and reading bank statements
Call me cynical, but the old congressmen will keep trying to pass this type of bill, and in four years when the president is most likely republican, that president will let it pass.
[QUOTE=Paul McCartney;40308835]Fucking people and the NDAA. You can't not sign the NDAA, it's the militaries annual budget. It just got some unfortunate, but hardly different things added onto it.
Newsflash, they've been able to do it since the patriot act was signed.[/QUOTE]
another thing obama signs without any fuss
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(accidently had this still open and hit post before realising I already posted. ignore)
[QUOTE=Sableye;40309511]isnt cispa just the zombie bastard child of SOPA and PIPA which were zombie children of other failed bills
at least obama is concerned with private civil liberties for once, as it is it doesn't stop the NSA from reading this, my email, logging into my 4chan account and reading bank statements[/QUOTE]
CISPA is all about building a warrantless process for companies to hand over user data to the feds. SOPA was more about establishing a national site blacklist.
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