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A law that grants immunity for sharing vaguely defined information for a vaguely defined purpose, and then authorizes the government to use that information for

• tptacek 15y ago
  No, it's not, because the law of the land already allows service providers to voluntarily share information about the usage of their service (ie, email if they operate an email service) to the government without restriction, so long as that sharing is incident to an effort to protect their own service. In other words: service providers can share any information that is ostensibly about abuse of their own services; what they can't do is feed information about e.g. drug trafficking conducted over their service to help build a case against drug trafficking. CISPA also relies on voluntary sharing and is also framed around efforts to protect services. That doesn't make it a good bill. I don't think it is, and I "oppose" it (for whatever that's worth). But I oppose it because it's an ineffective measure, not because it's a threat to the Internet.