SOPA, PIPA, ACTA... and now CISPA

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Here's the next thing the SOPA, PIPA and ACTA supporters are up to:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyber_Intelligence_Sharing_and_Protection_Act
http://www.digitaltrends.com/opinion/cispa-is-not-the-new-sopa-heres-why/
http://rt.com/usa/news/cispa-bill-sopa-internet-175/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j6BKU9mCnn0

The technology industry will not be opposing it this time and people will probably not care too much about it, since they're accustomed to giving away their private information to the corporations voluntarily:

For most people, however, sharing information about ourselves is just the way things work nowadays. We post every aspect of our lives online, from what we’re eating to our location to all the gritty details of last night. These companies already know all our secrets. In other words: privacy just ain’t what it used to be. And I just don’t see every Jack, Jill, and John getting their knickers in a knot over something that sounds like what they do on a regular basis — share information — or which many people believe is already happening: that Facebook, Google, Twitter, and every other Web company out there hands over our private information the second Uncle Sam looks at them funny. We are in Brave New World, not 1984.

Second — and this is the real problem — the CISPA opposition does not yet have the technology industry on its side. In fact, many of the most important players, the ones with the big scary guns, have already embedded themselves in the enemy’s camp. Facebook, Microsoft, Oracle, IBM, Intel, AT&T, Verizon — all of them (and many others) have already sent letters to congress voicing support for CISPA. And that should come as no surprise. Whereas SOPA and PIPA were bad for many companies that do business on the Internet, and burdened them with the unholy task of policing the Web (or facing repercussions if they did’t), this bill makes life easier for them; it removes regulations and the risk of getting sued for handing over our information to The Law. Not to mention doing what the bill says it’s going to do: protecting them from cyber threats.

In short: Supporting CISPA is in these companies’ interest. Supporting SOPA/PIPA was not.

Quote is from the digitaltrends.com article.