Have you heard of the horrible thing called CISPA (Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act)? This act, if passed, will allow government officials to look at YOUR private info on the Web. Tell me, do you want Obama looking at every embarrassing detail of your life?

No? I didn't think so.

But! I have two ways to beat down this horrible bill!

1- Go to and scroll down. You should find CISPA there, on the left side of the page. You need to give your e-mail, and I know that people don't like doing that, but would you prefer a world like in The Bar Code Tattoo? (For those who don't know, in The Bar Code Tattoo by Suzanne Weyn, everyone who is seventeen years or older must get a bar code tattoo. In that tattoo is all of your information. The government does something to make the bar code tattoos not work for people who are less than perfect-for example, if you had a bar code tattoo and your grandmother had cancer, or you had a disease, your bar code tattoo would not work. Without a working bar code tattoo, you can't buy or sell. Is this the kind of future we want? Where certain people are pushed down on the stair ladder of life because of things out of their control?)

2-Apparently, companies such as AT&T, Facebook, Intel, Microsoft, and Verizon support CISPA. If you have Facebook, don't use it for as long as you can. If your phone is AT&T or Verizon, don't use it for as long as possible or keep it to a minimum. If you're planning to get something by Microsoft or Intel, don't. It's just a period of time for us, but its major losses in money for them-that is, if we DO boycott them.

Other CISPA supporters are:

TechAmerica IBM Oracle Corporation Symantec Business Software Alliance

The CTIA-The Wireless Association

Hundreds More

So, please, if you own anything or are planning to get anything by the above countries, boycott it. Three days, a week, months, or even a year if you can-just as long as it takes to beat down CISPA. Google it, you'll see. Also, if you have any form of contact with anyone who has connections to the government, use it. Heck, it doesn't even have to be connections with the U. S. government! Just… ANY government. As long as it's not the North Korean government, or any government that would… You know… Attack us. Then again, I doubt that anyone from N. Korea is allowed to read this.

Don't even get me started on ACTA. Oops, too late.

Have you heard of PIPA and SOPA? This is practically the same thing. Australia, Canada, Japan, Morocco, New Zealand, Singapore, South Korea, The European Union, and 22 countries of the European Union have signed. If you live in any of these countries, please-PROTEST!

ACTA is a supposed 'anti-piracy' act, but will it really help? It'll just shut down any websites that insult companies with enough money to get the site gone! Take a look at this:

Kadar Arif, the rapporteur (a person appointed by a deliberate body to investigation issue) of the process of getting the E. U. to sign ACTA said;

"I want to denounce in the strongest possible manner the entire process that led to the signature of this agreement: no inclusion of civil society organizations, a lack of transparency from the start of negotiations, repeated postponing of the signature of the rest without explanation being ever given, exclusion of the EU Parliament's demands that were expressed on several occasions in our assembly."

What do you think of that? If that's not in the slightest dodgy, I don't know WHAT is. Act against ACTA!

And don't just assume 'this is old news' and not do anything. Both CISPA and ACTA can be passed, and it's up to us to stop them. Most of all don't think that you can't do anything. The power of the people beat down PIPA and SOPA, two bills that would have restricted our Internet freedom. WE have corrected the government before, and we can show them the right thing to do once more! Let's fight for our freedom on the Net!

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