<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt"><h2 class="story_title">Talk Begins of Online ‘Blackout’ in CISPA Protest</h2>
<div class="date">Posted 2013-04-19 18:08:42</div><br>(NEW YORK) -- No sooner had the House of
Representatives passed the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act
(CISPA), on Thursday, than word began spreading of an online protest.
Some are suggesting the protest take the form of a “blackout” – going
offline for 24 hours, displaying censorship bars over content or posting
statements of opposition to Internet censorship — similar to last
year’s opposition to the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and the Protect
IP Act (PIPA).<br><div class="description"><br>Supporters on Twitter have begun tweeting the hashtag #CISPABlackout to promote the proposed April 22 “blackout.”<br><br>Though
proponents see the bill as a strong measure to fight cyber threats and
better protect citizens, organizations like the American Civil Liberties
Union, The Internet Defense League and the Electronic Frontier
Foundation oppose CISPA because of the jurisdiction it would provide for
the federal government to procure personal information shared with
private-sector entities such as Google or Facebook. ( Read more at: http://kticradio.com/news/business/?more=33414201 )<br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13.3333px; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13.3333px; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><br></div></div></body></html>