Internet Activists Deliver 300,000 Anti-CISPA Signatures to Congress

An army of Internet freedom activists immediately leapt into action after the controversial Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act, or CISPA, was recently reintroduced to Congress. Among them have been Demand Progress and Fight for the Future, who this week helped 300,000 citizens send a petition against CISPA to the lawmakers behind it.

Those 300,000 online signatures were e-mailed to the House Intelligence Committee, which is currently debating the reintroduced CISPA. A dedicated Twitter account, @CISPApetition, has been tweeting a set of signatures every hour to the chairman and ranking member of that committee -- who together authored the bill -- with the hashtag #NoCISPA:

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