CISPAcat: using memes to fight America's terrible, net-breaking "cybersecurity" bill

Zakkai from Fight for the Future (the folks who brought you the war on SOPA) sez, "Want to fight for Internet privacy with cute cat photos? CISPAcat is a new advice animal that wants nothing more than to spy on your internet activity. He's the child of the privacy-killing cybersecurity bill CISPA and the equally creepy ceiling cat. Check him out and submit your own. Curious why CISPA is so bad? Read about it at the EFF's website."

CISPA CAT IS WATCHING YOU

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I don’t understand any of this
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  LIU Wikipedia meme (meem)
Tyler Riddle

This is good because if complaining, protesting, and voting haven’t accomplished a damn thing we know the power of cats will solve all problems with Government.
Ethan Taliesin Houser

Memes are a good way to reach a large number f people, but I hope that it doesn’t trivialize it.
- MB44
  
  Too late.
peterblue11

i made loads of these memes when the italian wikipedia was taken offline… nobody cared

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http://codeflow.org/ Florian Bösch

So CISPA is coming. The whole SOPA thing was for entirely nothing, zip, zilch. Nice to see how your “representatives” have like an attention span to their constituents of about 5 minutes.
- autark
  
  I don’t think they have a short attention span. I think they know exactly what they’re doing. They expect *US* to have a short attention span and not notice that they’re passing whatever damn laws they want when they think we’re not paying attention. It’s incumbent upon us to be vigilant and let them know we’re not complacent… only when they fear an ever watchful eye will they truly represent.
  - http://codeflow.org/ Florian Bösch
    
    And yet CISPA is passing largely unopposed by the masses. So they’re entirely right about our short attention span.
    - MB44
      
      Yup, just as we expected it would. This country gets the government it deserves, that’s for sure. It’s just too bad that a minority with brains and forsight has to suffer so much due to the apathy of the rest.
theophrastvs

It’s a molluscular race of attention spans! The cohort which manages by shear force of caffeine to resist waddling off to see who’s on dancing-with-the-stars last wins control of the whole dystopian landscape.
Wingnut

Bumper sticker philosophies…