CD025: What's in CISPA?

Congressional Dish

Jennifer Briney

News, Government, Politics

4.6 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 25 April 2013

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

H.R. 624: The "Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act", better known as CISPA, passed the House of Representatives and is now moving into the Senate. It's a better bill than it was in the last Congress, but it's still not ready to become law. Links to information in this podcast Music: Democracy is Dangerous by Thomas Pace (found on Music Alley by mevio) Text of H.R. 624: CISPA as it passed the House of Representatives Congressional Dish summary of CISPA White House veto threat Representatives Quoted in This Episode (in order of appearance) Rep. Alcee Hastings of Florida Rep. Rob Woodall of Georgia Rep. Mike Rogers of Michigan Rep. Jared Polis of Colorado Rep. Adam Schiff of California Rep. Bill Enyart of Illinois Further Reading Sunlight Foundation article on lobbying efforts for CISPA

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0:00.0	The Hey there are loyal listeners new listeners friends family and anyone else who happens to hear this. This is the 25th episode of
0:24.2	Congressional dish and I'm your host Jennifer Briny. This episode is the
0:28.3	promised episode on CISBA, the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act, which is getting the
0:34.9	Internet's all a flutter in protests. So this is actually going to be a pretty
0:40.7	packed episode. There's a lot to talk about here, so let's just get started right away.
0:45.6	No doubt about it.
0:51.6	Democracy's dangerous.
0:54.0	She seems so strange to us.
0:56.0	Some might say it's just as well we live without it.
1:00.0	And I get ashamed of us. If it's all the same is going to take the plane
1:05.3	It's gonna save us from ourselves. I've been digging in you got to play the game to win
1:12.3	You got to play the game to win to open up your eyes and make a change in eyes.
1:16.0	No doubt about it.
1:19.0	Democracy is dangerous.
1:21.0	It's all the same.
1:22.0	It's going to save us from ourselves.
1:27.0	All right, so last week, specifically April 18th, if you want to know the date, SISPA passed the House of Representatives.
1:36.6	Now SISPA stands for the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act.
1:40.9	This is a zombie bill revived from the dead from the 112th Congress and people hated
1:45.8	this bill last time around and it's drawing fierce protest from the internet again
1:49.3	this year even though there are improvements in the bill from last year.
1:53.0	Now there's lots of rumors going around and upon looking at quite a few blog posts this week,
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