#1 23-04-13 01:26:16

viva

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cispa threat - this again?!

Government and corporate forays into limiting our personal freedom online are nothing new to us - last year's SOPA and PIPA scares are compounded by the many attempts on various scales to limit our access to the porn we like to watch.

The internet's wild west days of unpoliced liberty are constantly threatened - so the re-introduction of CISPA, the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection act this year, comes as no great surprise.

But it's important that we resist the activism burn-out that comes when we fight and fight and don't seem to get anywhere. This CISPA thing, it's bad news.

Anonymity is one of the core tenets of our internet experience - allowing for tech crimes, yes, but also protecting those of us who exist without safety in physical spaces, and giving those marginalized voices a chance to speak up, loud and clear, without fear of violent retribution. Protesters living in fascist political climates, abused spouses reaching out to their community for help, GLBTQ youth in unfriendly environments accessing information about their sexuality, folks who want to nude up and get sexy without fear of social or physical retribution, people with uncommon kinks - these and many more groups of people rely upon internet anonymity to explore themselves and their culture, to seek help, and to make themselves heard.

I found Violet Blue's post today really enlightening, outlining why CISPA is bad for the internet nude models she likes to feature in her Eye Candy posts - sticking info between hot pictures of beautiful women is a good way to get attention, though to be honest reading about CISPA leaves me a bit too cold to enjoy the pics. 

Violet Blue -#stopCISPA babes

Last edited by viva (23-04-13 06:40:53)

troyforyou

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Registered: 05-04-08

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Re: cispa threat - this again?!

and they're going to tie is back to the Boston tragedy, just you watch.  "We need to know who is searching for pressure cookers" etc etc