Stop the surge of draconian Internet Bills

The Issue

They’re doing it again! Congress, despite complaints regarding shelved anti-piracy bills SOPA and PIPA, decided to try to monitor the Internet again with cybersecurity bills instead! There are three this time! There’s the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act of 2011 by Rep. Mike Rogers, which will allow congress to bypass prior legislation altogether to censor and monitor whatever they don’t like. There’s also McCain’s SECURE IT bill, another draconian legislation which has the military monitoring the bill instead. Finally, Joe Lieberman’s Cybersecurity Act of 2012, while it doesn’t affect the main internet indirectly, allows the Department of Homeland Security to pester tech companies until they conform to their crappy security “upgrades.” Clearly none of these bills are good for the overall internet.

Make Congress reconsider these bills in favor of more tolerable solutions that prevent hackers from attacking the internet while not harming the users, like creating a more decentralized internet replacement like Meshnet in the website https://pay.reddit.com/r/darknetplan.

Please join the Reddit Activist Network at https://pay.reddit.com/r/evolutionReddit and help us with our fight for freedom from tyranny. Also, email your state’s representatives and senator to not support these bills when they come to a vote. Finally, please donate to the Electronic Frontier Foundation (eff.com) to help win the fight against Internet tyranny.

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The Issue

They’re doing it again! Congress, despite complaints regarding shelved anti-piracy bills SOPA and PIPA, decided to try to monitor the Internet again with cybersecurity bills instead! There are three this time! There’s the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act of 2011 by Rep. Mike Rogers, which will allow congress to bypass prior legislation altogether to censor and monitor whatever they don’t like. There’s also McCain’s SECURE IT bill, another draconian legislation which has the military monitoring the bill instead. Finally, Joe Lieberman’s Cybersecurity Act of 2012, while it doesn’t affect the main internet indirectly, allows the Department of Homeland Security to pester tech companies until they conform to their crappy security “upgrades.” Clearly none of these bills are good for the overall internet.

Make Congress reconsider these bills in favor of more tolerable solutions that prevent hackers from attacking the internet while not harming the users, like creating a more decentralized internet replacement like Meshnet in the website https://pay.reddit.com/r/darknetplan.

Please join the Reddit Activist Network at https://pay.reddit.com/r/evolutionReddit and help us with our fight for freedom from tyranny. Also, email your state’s representatives and senator to not support these bills when they come to a vote. Finally, please donate to the Electronic Frontier Foundation (eff.com) to help win the fight against Internet tyranny.

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Petition created on March 11, 2012