Microsoft Backs Away from CISPA Support, citing Privacy - Polidicks

[quote][URL]http://news.cnet.com/8301-33062_3-57423580/microsoft-backs-away-from-cispa-support-citing-privacy/[/URL] Microsoft has been counted as a supporter of CISPA since the beginning. Now the company tells CNET any new law must allow "us to honor the privacy and security promises we make to our customers" and protect "consumer privacy."[/quote] Go MS.

And the dominoes begin to fall.

And at last they got reasonable.

good move MS

They wouldn't have be backing away from it if CISPA didn't get into public view.

I guess this means Apple are all for it?

I actually have a bit of my respect for Microsoft renewed, thanks to their dropping of the support of this plutocratic fascism. I only hope it can convince others to follow suit and thoroughly bludgeon the Republican pigs.

[QUOTE=inconspicious;35745865]I guess this means Apple are all for it?[/QUOTE] I don't think it makes too much of a difference to them. They already have more information on more people than anyone else besides various governments and Facebook. Though Apple has the most credit card info of any company in the world.

You shouldn't respect MS. If it gets vetoed it makes them look bad. I'm sure that's the only reason they're pulling away.

We shouldn't be congratulating them for ditching CISPA this late, we should be disgusted with them for not ditching it earlier.

Companies must remember the most important thing and that is their customers are people. I support companies that cater to my needs and MS is catering to my freedom.

As plokoon pointed out, they don't care about us. They care about their image. They would have supported and lobbied for this bill had it not come into public attention.

[QUOTE=TheFilmSlacker;35748797]Don't they realize that people don't want them?[/QUOTE] that would be making the misguided assumption that the government actually cares about the people

[QUOTE=Sonicdude;35747362]Companies must remember the most important thing and that is their customers are people. I support companies that cater to my needs and MS is catering to my freedom.[/QUOTE]Not really no they don't. They see you as a wallet with an opinion. They improve their rep so that you open up for them. Businesses rarely care about their customers as people. The only reason to have good public rep is so that people trust you more and buy into your bullshit. Many companies have shown that you don't even need good rep if you have a fanbase of sheep aka apple or activision. When you're in their grasp they can do whatever they want and drain you of your monies.

[QUOTE=ironman17;35746584]I actually have a bit of my respect for Microsoft renewed, thanks to their dropping of the support of this plutocratic fascism. I only hope it can convince others to follow suit and thoroughly bludgeon the Republican pigs.[/QUOTE] Sweet jesus that was a long winded attempt to sound smart. :v:

They backed up from SOPA as well. Why sign it in the first place? I understand the value of products and copyright and all that stuff, but shouldn't they read before they support?

[QUOTE=TheFilmSlacker;35748797]The same thing happened with SOPA. A bunch of big companies supported it until they found out that things would get ugly if it passed, so a lot of them started to back out. Why are they even trying at this point to push these bills? They've failed about 3-4 times now with bills that were all very similar. Don't they realize that people don't want them?[/QUOTE] They're hoping sooner or later we'll stop caring. At the same time they're testing their boundaries; if they couldn't cut off access to sites, maybe (god knows why) people would react better to privacy infringements. I'm sure that's what goes on in their minds.

[QUOTE=KILLTHIS;35748970]They backed up from SOPA as well. Why sign it in the first place? I understand the value of products and copyright and all that stuff, but shouldn't they read before they support?[/QUOTE]They do, and they'll be onboard every followup to this type of bill in the future. If the public notices it they'll back out and pretend that they knew nothing about it until just then, but when a version which no one pays attention to shows up they'll personally run it all the way to the finish line.

Blocking an attack from a beast does not kill the beast, he will be back again and maybe even stronger.

It must mean [I]something[/I] when such a high profile company backs off from supporting CISPA.