I&#x27;ve come to believe that &quot;the powers that be&quot; will never stop this progressive march towards pervasive monitoring and surveillance.  If we succeed in keeping this bill from passing, we&#x27;ll just be fighting another just like it or worse in a few years.  We have to make it fundamentally impossible to monitor our private communications and to share our private data.<p>To get there, it is going to take a complete shift in how we build internet software.  These problems cannot be fixed using the current status quo.  I highly encourage you to start looking into projects like Ethereum, IPFS, Whisper and Swarm.  The offer a way to build web applications that are completely immune to censorship, monitoring, and large scale data breaches while giving user&#x27;s control over their data.<p>This isn&#x27;t to say that there aren&#x27;t battles to be fought in the legislation arena.  There are and kudos to entities like the EFF for leading the charge.  What I&#x27;m trying to say is that as long as it&#x27;s possible to do pervasive surveillance, we&#x27;re going to keep seeing the powers that be continue in that direction.  If it is possible, they will try and do it.<p>Sources:<p>* <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ethereum.org&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ethereum.org&#x2F;</a><p>* <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;ethereum&#x2F;go-ethereum&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Swarm---distributed-preimage-archive" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;ethereum&#x2F;go-ethereum&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Swarm---distrib...</a><p>* <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;ipfs.io&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;ipfs.io&#x2F;</a><p>* <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;ethereum&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Whisper-Overview" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;ethereum&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Whisper-Overview</a>