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I posted this on the White House "Contact Us" webpage: "I received notice on a technology message board that CISPA is being reintroduced with an executive orde
by kunai 14y ago
I posted this on the White House "Contact Us" webpage:
"I received notice on a technology message board that CISPA is being reintroduced with an executive order. The previous bill, which was shot down a few years ago, would have infringed upon our God-granted rights. Now that it is being reinstated, I wanted to express my concern for the citizens of America, who, with every day, and every tick of the clock, are subject to a more powerful and potentially tyrannical government that is eroding their privacy and rights one by one.
I would also like to express to the administration that they are merely public servants, and nothing more. The citizens of the United States are their rulers, not vice versa. This administration, and the previous Republican one, are by far the worst in terms of right infringement. The PATRIOT Act, the Section 1021 of the NDAA 2012, and now CISPA have all but erased the privacy of American citizens.
They may not mind now, but the American citizens know about their government. We the people of the United States are not blind. We can see through the smoke and mirrors that the bars of government continue to put up. If you erode our rights, we will be upset. And when we are upset, you will lose your jobs, your credibility, your haughtiness, and your confidence.
Remember, a volcano never stays dormant forever."
Any thoughts? Or should I just start one of those seemingly useless petitions on WhiteHouse.gov?
Feel free to use the above text if you're going to contact your senators or the like.
- pekk 14y agoThe point of the petitions on whitehouse.gov is to get your view seen by other people and perhaps get some answer from some official under the executive. If that's good enough for you, do it. If you believe that posting a petition on whitehouse.gov and getting a few thousand people to "Like" it should automatically result in legislation, or an official saying what you agree with, then don't bother.
- kunai 14y ago> If you believe that posting a petition on whitehouse.gov and getting a few thousand people to "Like" it should automatically result in legislation, or an official saying what you agree with That's not what I believe at all. I'm just saying that there needs to be a less broad approach to CISPA and that there needs to be a more clear explanation as to what exactly can or cannot be tracked, because with the current legislation, indefinite snooping of innocent individuals is possible under it. The bill itself is fine. It is by no means the same as SOPA or PIPA, but it's also poorly written and allows companies and the U.S. Government to exploit citizens. That's what people need to get attention to. The website that this post links to is misleading; look at some other sources of information to see what really is going on.
- tptacek 14y agoHow does did CISPA allow companies to "exploit citizens"? When you answer that, try to capture what it was that companies couldn't do before CISPA and could have done after CISPA, and how they'd have had any incentive to use CISPA as their vector to do those things.
- ismarc 14y agoCall your representatives. Seriously, honestly, call them up and explain it to the staffer who answers the phone. Make sure to let them know that you are a voting member of your district and express your opinions politely and confidently. They really do listen to what their constituency has to say, which is a large part of why younger generation's interests are rarely represented. The older generations are actually communicating with their representatives rather than fire-and-forget style of voting. A trip to their office is the most powerful for communicating how you feel, a phone call next, a written letter next and an email is basically a "I don't care much" type message. While you won't reach your representative directly, the staffers do pass on the feedback to the representative (each office is different, some will read each piece of mail while others only get summaries of what people in general are communicating about). A representative democracy works only when you actually communicate to your representative what your interests are.
- skcin7 14y agoI just wanted to post real quick to say that I have experience calling my congressman and talking with staffers politely but confidently and can confirm that they did indeed take my opinions and ideas very seriously, or at least gave me the impression that they did.