This week online leviathans including Reddit and Craigslist joined efforts bottom-lined by the Electronic Frontier Foundation and activist group Internet Defense League to fight CISPA. CISPA (the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act), which allows the National Security Agency and the military to collect your private Internet records, was amended from its original version but has still set off alarms for privacy advocates.

While the White House has urged Congress to pass a cybersecurity bill, CISPA would give businesses and the federal government legal protection to share data on cyberthreats with each other and has garnered criticism for being overly broad and failing to protect user privacy. HuffPo's Gerry Smith reported on the online actions taken up by thousands of sites this week to fight the bill:

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