Congress Passes CISPA While Everyone Is Distracted With Boston Theatre

They passed the Cyber Intelligence Sharing[Protection Act (CISPA). Aaron Swartz: Internet civil libertarian suicided MIT cooperated with government to persecute him. He fought and defeated SOPA, a law similar to CISPA which Congress just passed while we were all paying attention to the goings on in Boston. Swartz was also a Harvard-recognized expert on institutional corruption. The Feds took over a minor case he was involved with and turned it into potential multi-decade prison sentence for him. The claim is that he committed suicide in despair over the case. The reality is he was in a positive state of mind when he died and he was a fighter. So how did he really die?

Okay, I thought that this didn't pass.

Senate Committee Rejects CISPA Due to Privacy Concerns
http://inthecapital.streetwise.co/2013/04/26/senate-committee-rejects-cispa-due-to-privacy-concerns/

Last week the alarm was raised when the House of Representatives passed the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act or CISPA, which would essentially allow a free flow of information between private companies and the federal government. Fears were heightened, as those of us who live our lives online had some serious concerns about how this bill would destroy our right to privacy by allowing the government to have access to our private account information without our knowledge. After a seemingly endless barrage of tweets and status updates urging individuals to get angry, the bill was shelved today the U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation. It will mostly likely take months for a new cyber security bill to be drafted.