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Tell Facebook: Withdraw Your Support For CISPA. Tell Facebook: Withdraw Your Support For CISPA What is Facebook thinking? They've signed on in support of CISPA -- the new bill that would obliterate online privacy, give the military crazy new abilities to spy on the Internet, and potentially let ISPs block sites and cut off users accused of piracy. First, please help push this viral on Facebook by using this link -- you'll be sharing the campaign, along with the photo of Mark Zuckerberg at right: Then please sign on at right to add your name to our open letter. The Center for Democracy and Technology says, "CISPA has a very broad, almost unlimited definition of the information that can be shared with government agencies and it supersedes all other privacy laws. " According to the Electronic Frontier Foundation: Urban Explorer and Photographer Dan Marbaix Takes Stunning Photographs of Abandoned Buildings.

Photographer Dan Marbaix is what is known as an "urban explorer. " He travels from city to city, exploring abandoned houses, asylums, churches, state buildings and much, much more. He has been arrested over 20 times for his trespassing - and even held at gunpoint - but he refuses to give up his search for things that exist outside of the mundane. You'll see why. Dan wasn't supposed to be in ANY of these places, but you'll be glad he was. Above is an abandoned house in Germany. It's hard to define what exactly makes these pictures so beautiful.

Is it the fact that humans have abandoned their dwellings? Or because it seems that life goes on, even when people aren't present? Some places are left in the state they were abandoned in. No matter how many times he has been threatened or arrested, Dan thinks it's all worth it. The Chambre du Commerce in Antwep, Belgium, was erected in 1872 as a reconstruction of a 1531 Stock Exchange.

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Fight Back: Congress Pushing Broad Internet Snooping Bill. Fight Back: Congress Pushing Broad Internet Snooping Bill "A direct assault on Internet users" is what the ACLU is calling it. A U.S. House committee has already approved HR 1981, a broad Internet snooping bill which was introduced last year. They want to force Internet service providers to keep track of and retain their customers' information -- including your name, address, phone number, credit card numbers, bank account numbers, and temporarily-assigned IP addresses. And get this: It's authored by lead SOPA sponsor Lamar Smith. The ACLU, EFF, Demand Progress, and 25 other civil liberties and privacy groups have expressed our opposition to this legislation. ISPs would collect and retain your data whether or not you're accused of a crime.

Rep. Just fill out the form at right and we'll automatically email your lawmakers. Here's CNET's recent article on our efforts. Vote For The Net. CISPA Is The New SOPA: Help Kill It. CISPA Is The New SOPA: Help Kill It Here's their next move: The Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act, or CISPA, would obliterate any semblance of online privacy in the United States. It's up for a vote later this month.

CISPA demolishes existing barriers between the government and the private sector -- and between government agencies -- that restrict data sharing without cause, effectively allowing information about Americans' use of the Internet to slosh back and forth uninhibited. The Center for Democracy and Technology says, "CISPA has a very broad, almost unlimited definition of the information that can be shared with government agencies and it supersedes all other privacy laws. And according to the Electronic Frontier Foundation, CISPA would do some of the job that Hollywood and other content owners couldn't pull off via SOPA earlier this year: Please add your name at right to tell your lawmakers to oppose CISPA.

Here's CDT's resource page on CISPA. The Best Response For When Anyone Calls Young People Lazy Today.