Indy Michael - at WAOI: September 2014

Aaron's Law

To sign the petition, let's stop the CFAA assault on internet connectivity.

But signing is just our opening salvo because the government fear of the internet is raising its head, as Aaron predicted it would again, even after how soundly SOPA/PIPA and CISPA were defeated. Even Cispa's been reintroduced somewhere.

The unidentified authorship of the bill being 'discussed' in the Judiciary Committee is so entirely a faulty law, as to make knowing or communicating with Anonymous equivalent to membership in a racketeering group, and such would carry penalties that rival severity reserved for mobsters. Other vagueness would allow you to be prosecuted for checking Facebook at the office, if that was against company rules. Racketeering-unjust parallels and extremely unbalanced thinking has to be stopped.

This CFAA was misbegotten to start with, back in the 1980s, shows an extreme lack of knowledge of internet and computer realities, and should be trashed. It's not decent enough to fix. The current interest was supposed to fix it after they saw how it could, and was, abused, to target Aaron for his successful work against their previous attacks on connectivity, but instead this latest action has allowed the hateful ignorants to make it even worse.

Alert your congressman, keep after them and stay in touch with Demand Progress on Facebook as they monitor, negotiate, and bring news. Check often. Get the latest arguments, like Techdirt's demand to gut that failed law. Like who's on the committee, timing and actions. TTYL

Indy Michael - at WAOI

Sunday, September 21, 2014

Walking Out on Climate Marches