SOPA Mutates Into Much Worse CISPA, the Latest Threat to Internet Free Speech

• “What CISPA will do, if passed, is remove all the legal barriers that currently stop internet service providers, government agencies, and others from arbitrarily spying on internet users.”
• Whistleblower: The NSA is Lying–U.S. Government Has Copies of Most of Your Emails
• Feds Want Way to Hack Xboxes and Wiis for Evidence

Ethan A. Huff, Natural News

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Just because SOPA and PIPA, the infamous internet "kill switch" bills, are largely dead does not mean the threat to internet free speech has become any less serious. The Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act (CISPA), also known as H.R. 3523, is the latest mutation of these internet censorship and spying bills to hit the U.S. Congress -- and unless the American people speak up now to stop it, CISPA could lead to far worse repercussions for online free speech than SOPA or PIPA ever would have.

CNET, the popular technology news website that was among many others who spoke up against SOPA and PIPA earlier in the year, is also one of many now sounding the alarm about CISPA, which was authored by Rep. Mike Rogers (R-Mich.) and Rep. Dutch Ruppersberger (D-Md.). Though the bill's promoters are marketing it as being nothing like SOPA or PIPA, CISPA is exactly like those bills, except worse.

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Whistleblower: The NSA is Lying–U.S. Government Has Copies of Most of Your Emails, Amy Goodman, Democracy Now!
Submitted by Evergreene Digest Contributing Editor Kevin Zeese
National Security Agency whistleblower William Binney reveals he believes domestic surveillance has become more expansive under President Obama than President George W. Bush. He estimates the NSA has assembled 20 trillion "transactions" — phone calls, emails and other forms of data — from Americans. This likely includes copies of almost all of the emails sent and received from most people living in the United States. Binney talks about Section 215 of the USA PATRIOT Act and challenges NSA Director Keith Alexander’s assertion that the NSA is not intercepting information about U.S. citizens. This interview is part of a 4-part special. Click here to see segment 1, 2, and 4. [includes rush transcript]

Feds Want Way to Hack Xboxes and Wiis for Evidence, Kim Zetter, Wired

• Although reformatting a device before selling it should erase such data, researchers at Drexel University have recently claimed they could extract credit card information and a billing address from the hard drive of an XBox 360 even after it was reformatted.
• You are being tracked online.