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Why don't you link to the actual, short text of the bill from any of your activist websites? It's right here: http://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/113/hr624/text

sep3321 karma

tptacek asked this on hacker news, but I'm also curious and am posting this as my own question:

I think there are multiple points in the "CISPAISBACK.ORG" site that are misleading, and from what I understand of the bill (having read multiple drafts and also survived approximately 900 different HN debates on it), the infographic at the bottom of the page that purports to explain the bill language is in some ways directly false:

  • The bill does not cover "intellectual property"

  • The bill does not pertain to Photoshop and Nickelback albums

  • The bill does not give you no legal recourse if your information is abused; you can sue the government, under liability established explicitly in CISPA

  • The bill has nothing whatsoever to do with the objectives of SOPA

from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5398487