SOPA is Not over yet - Don't Relax - Fight This!

[John Phoenix]

For Americans Everywhere

Sign this Demand Progress website page to help fight this bill !!

[h=3]Fight Back: Congress Pushing Broad Internet Snooping Bill[/h] "A direct assault on Internet users" is what the ACLU is calling it. A U.S. House committee has already approved HR 1981, a broad Internet snooping bill which was introduced last year.
They want to force Internet service providers to keep track of and retain their customers' information -- including your name, address, phone number, credit card numbers, bank account numbers, and temporarily-assigned IP addresses.
And get this: It's authored by lead SOPA sponsor Lamar Smith.
The ACLU, EFF, Demand Progress, and 25 other civil liberties and privacy groups have expressed our opposition to this legislation. Will you join us, by emailing your lawmakers today? Just use the form at right.

ISPs would collect and retain your data whether or not you're accused of a crime. Supporters shamelessly dubbed it the "Protecting Children From Internet Pornographers Act," but our staunchest allies in Congress are calling it what it is: an all-encompassing Internet snooping bill.

Rep. Zoe Lofgren of California, who led Democratic opposition to the bill said, "It represents a data bank of every digital act by every American [that would] let us find out where every single American visited Web sites."
[h=3]Just fill out the form at right and we'll automatically email your lawmakers.

[/h] CLICK HERE TO HELP FIGHT THIS BILL --> https://act.demandprogress.org/act/snooping/

Here is the Link to the CNET story that has more details than this short summery: http://news.cnet.com/8301-31921_3-5...s-have-isp-snooping-bill-in-their-crosshairs/

Here is a little bit from that page.

It took an Internet-wide outcry from millions of voters to prompt Rep. Lamar Smith, author of the Stop Online Piracy Act, to postpone a vote on the controversial Hollywood-backed bill.
Now Smith, a conservative Texas Republican, is being targeted a second time: for championing legislation that would require Internet service providers to keep track of their customers, in case police want to review those logs in the future. His bill is called H.R. 1981.

Texas Rep. Lamar Smith, Hollywood's favorite Republican, and the author of two controversial bills: SOPA and H.R. 1981
(Credit: U.S. House of Representatives)




The latest campaign is designed to build on last month's remarkable protests, which included Wikipedia going dark for a day and Google and Amazon.com posting anti-SOPA warnings on their home pages. Irate voters overwhelmed the U.S. Senate's Web site and, importantly, demonstrated to politicians that Internet users could be a potent political force.
"This is yet another government assault on the Internet and its users," said Demand Progress Executive Director David Segal. "We taught Congress a lesson last month: we need to do to H.R. 1981 what we did to SOPA, and make it clear to Lamar Smith and the rest of Congress that they can't run roughshod over Internet freedom."
Demand Progress, a liberal advocacy group and enthusiastic adversary of large copyright holders, claims to have generated more than 86,000 e-mails as of this afternoon to politicians opposing H.R. 1981. (The SOPA-supporting Motion Picture Association of America has accused Demand Progress of being allied with "offshore rogue Web sites that promote the theft and illegal marketing of American products like movies, video games, and software.")

Much more at the link above including an interesting ISP SNOOPNG TIMELINE.

http://news.cnet.com/8301-31921_3-5...s-have-isp-snooping-bill-in-their-crosshairs/

Lets say the FDA doesn't agree with some posts on ECF and wants to make an example out of some folks. If this bill passes they can get your details and internet usage history from your ISP much easier than they can now. They would be able to build a case against you based on all your past internet usage history - basically treating you like a criminal when you have not had due process of Law finding you guilty of a crime.

I say fight this and all who seek to destroy our Internet Freedoms and right to free speech.


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[CountCaffeine]

Don't forget about ACTA as well. It is SOPA big brother with TEETH.

 

[echofinder]

But John, it's FOR THE CHILDREN!! If you are against H.R. 1981 that means you support child pornography! Haha, resorting to child exploitation is always a sign of desperation... pathetic.

I agree we need to fight both this law & especially ACTA. On other fronts, Canada has a SOPA-esque law on the table & the US is threatening Sweden for not playing along with our anti-digital rights crusade.