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In this episode of Tech Chop, Paul decided to take the time to spread the word about the latest "Big Brother" bill to come out of the U.S. Congress called CISPA, or the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act. If you haven't heard of it, Wikipedia describes the bill’s purpose as follows:

The bill would allow the voluntary sharing of attack and threat information between the U.S. government and security cleared technology and manufacturing companies in an attempt to ensure the security of networks against patterns of attack^.

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CISPA has been criticized by advocates of Internet privacy and neutrality, such as the Electronic Frontier Foundation and Avaaz.org, because they feel it contains too few limits on how and when the government may monitor private information when it might become collaterally entangled in the process of passing threat information, and too few safeguards with respect to how the data may be used; they fear that such new powers may be used to find and punish file sharers and copyright infringers rather than the stated foreign spies or hackers.

Basically what this bill will do is transform online companies you use every day like Facebook, Yahoo, Twitter and Google into spies against you. All of this under the disguise of “cyber security”.
Please use the links below to contact your representatives in the senate and ask them to oppose this bill. This bill MUST die in the senate!

DemandProgress.org Senate Contact

Eff.org Senate Contact

Please share this video with your friends and family. We must spread the word if we are to defeat this bill. I have a feeling that the government wants these bills to pass by quietly without a fight. Lets band together to make sure that does NOT happen!

On a side note, you can get the Anonymous T-Shirt Paul wears in this episode here: (Anonymous T-Shirt)