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CISPA, the super-surveillance bill that basically does away with your Fourth Amendment rights online (like, say, internet anonymity, or the fact that a warrant has to be issued to gather information about you - all that = gone) has passed the House. They moved the vote up a day earlier than scheduled in a feat of political legerdemain, then slam-dunked it without much concern for the internet users. You and me. This bill has to get past the Senate now, largely considered a fait accompli, and then past Obama - the same guy who very quietly reneged on his promise to veto the National Defense Authorization Act when he signed it on New Year's Eve - when everyone was busy partying for the new year. CISPA is bad, folks. If the government wants to know something about you, private information, they no longer have to obtain a warrant to get it. This law allows them to just go out and get it, without providing probable cause. CISPA makes SOPA (which caused so much uproar that the Internet went black in protest) look like a jaywalking ban. And those of us in Nebraska can, once again, thank our idiot Representatives for voting this thing in: Lee Terry, Jeff Fortenberry and Adrian Smith all voted in favor of CISPA. Remember that when they come up for reelection. Unless, of course, you think giving up your right to privacy is no big deal.