SOPA 2? Activists aim to kill cyber bill

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0412/75034.html

Cyber activists are looking to write a sequel to their takedown of SOPA with a “week of action” aimed at killing the new Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act.

But the sequel's seldom as good as the original. And supporters say CISPA ain't SOPA.

SOPA, backed by the movie and music industries, would have cracked down on online piracy, making it harder for users to get cheap entertainment online. CISPA is aimed at combatting cyberattacks by encouraging private companies to share information about cyberthreats with the government. More important, the tech companies that battled against SOPA and helped foster protests through their social media platforms aren’t up in arms about CISPA.

Facebook, for example, is supporting it.

Some of the same people who helped defeat SOPA earlier this year — forcing a bipartisan lineup of co-sponsors to flee — say CISPA is another example of Congress attempting to jam through a vaguely written bill that would have negative implications for anyone who uses the Internet. EFF says, like SOPA, CISPA is written so broadly that it could be used by companies and the government to block access to sites that allegedly host infringing content.