CISA Moves Forward: These 83 Senators Just Voted to Expand Surveillance

I continue to find it infuriating that the Republican party preaches "small government" and constantly fear-mongers about Obama forming a totalitarian government, and then they fail to vote against things like CISA.

Yes, I know that politicians say one thing and do another[1]. I just badly want to live in a world where people pay some attention to what their officials are doing and hold them slightly accountable, at the very least.

1. http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/john-kasich-a-jeb-bush-i...

I am pleased to see my two senators rejecting this dreck, however it appears that they are in the minority.

I think this is a major loss. We can't encrypt our information or make technological solutions to totalitarian surveillance when our information is in the hands of backdoored companies, which we really can't avoid interfacing with.

We really need to put more pressure on the politicians via corporate rejections of legislation. They listen to money. Companies with cash to spare need to be taking the lead in forming super PACs etc to rail against the people who voted for this bill, especially during election season, but starting well before. These political problems don't go away on their own.