I agree with you that this is unacceptable. The monitoring of the internet isn’t only
extremely creepy; it’s also a violation of the first amendment and unlawful
search and seizure. I can understand why
the government wants CISPA to be in place.
If they had access to all communication sent over the internet, they may
be able to stop organized crime before it even happens. If they can detect crimes before they happen,
that would help the nation by stopping pre-meditated crimes. However, I doubt this is would be all they used
it for, and I think they might arrest people who were just joking about what
would be considered a crime. More likely
people who disagreed with the government would be prosecuted if CISPA gets
passed. I agree that it sounds very much
like 1984. This does not make me rest
easier at night. It already feels like
the government is sometimes prying into our personal business because of
Warrantless Wiretapping. CISPA would
only give them more rights to do this.
This should not happen.
"There was of
course no way of knowing whether you were being watched at any given moment.
How often, or on what system, the Thought Police plugged in on any individual
wire was guesswork. It was even conceivable that they watched everybody all the
time. But at any rate they could plug in your wire whenever they wanted to. You
had to live—did live, from habit that became instinct—in the assumption that
every sound you made was overheard, and, except in darkness, every movement
scrutinized."-George Orwell’s 1984
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