Please take action asap: http://americancensorship.org/
We are becoming the next China.
Internet CENSORSHIP BILL - help stop it
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Very poor website you linked to. It doesn't explain any of the issues or problems they are fighting. Just asks the viewer to sign a petition. No information at all.
Can someone explain what this is all about anyway?
pete -try scrolling down, there is a video and links to additional information if you need it.
Is this in reference to the SOPA bill or something else?
posted by INeedCoffee on Dec 15, 2011 at 09:02:21 pm #
INeedCoffee posted at 08:02:21 PM on Dec 15, 2011:
Is this in reference to the SOPA bill or something else?
Did you click the link?
sorry, I'm too old to be optimistic. There's too much crap going on in the background, there's no way this can be stopped. We can sign petitions to make ourselves feel good but it's happening, so make the best of it.
slowsol: sorry about that, I'll admit I didn't click before posting.
There's been a lot of stuff going on which has made reading politics a little crazy for me. There's also a bill removing our rights to due process allowing the government to hold citizens indefinitely without trial. Been so much noise it's hard to keep any of this straight.
It's troubling.
posted by INeedCoffee on Dec 16, 2011 at 01:17:32 am #
A good website for info on this and similar issues is the Electronic Frontier Foundation at http://eff.org
http://www.eff.org/search/site/sopa
http://www.eff.org/issues/coica-internet-censorship-and-copyright-bill
The "Stop Online Piracy Act"/"E-PARASITE Act" (SOPA) and "The PROTECT IP Act" (PIPA) are the latest in a series of bills which would create a procedure for creating (and censoring) a blacklist of websites. These bills are updated versions of the “Combating Online Infringements and Counterfeits Act" (COICA), which was previously blocked in the Senate. Although the bills are ostensibly aimed at reaching foreign websites dedicated to providing illegal content, their provisions would allow for removal of enormous amounts of non-infringing content including political and other speech from the Web.
These bills are targeted at "rogue" websites that allow indiscriminate piracy, but use vague definitions that could include hosting websites such as Dropbox, MediaFire, and Rapidshare; sites that discuss piracy such as pirate-party.us, p2pnet, Torrent Freak, torproject.org, and ZeroPaid; as well as a broad range of sites for user-generated content, such as SoundCloud, Etsy, and Deviant Art. Had these bills been passed five or ten years ago, even YouTube might not exist today — in other words, the collateral damage from this legislation would be enormous.
There are already laws and procedures in place for taking down sites that violate the law. These acts would allow the Attorney General, and even individuals, to create a blacklist to censor sites when no court has found that they have infringed copyright or any other law.
http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2011/12/internet-inventors-warn-against-sopa-and-pipa
posted by jr on Dec 16, 2011 at 03:39:43 am # 1 person liked this
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