Internet crackdown coming?
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- Beeswax0
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- ukit20
Confessions Of A Hollywood Professional: Why I Can't Support the Stop Online Piracy Act
- monospaced0
Can't imagine it'd really take hold. The "internet" started (for the most part) in local pockets around the country. Yeah, the whole www. thing and html and browser standards came about, but the concept was that it would always be free and public. People will not give that up despite government intervention.
Remember dialing-in to a BBS with telnet? If this crap goes through, it would only be a matter of time before private ISPs and new communications networks pop up, just like the good 'ol days. In conclusion, I don't really think this thing could go through because it would piss everyone off, and if it did, it might be a good thing, spurring a new "internet" that people control again.
- You say private ISPs, etc. The thing is the government can slam them as well or would if that happened. FUCKED R wepanacea
- ukit20
Google joins protest
http://news.cnet.com/8301-31001_…
Google, the Web's top search company and one of technology's most influential powers in Washington, will post a link on its home page tomorrow to notify users of Google's opposition to controversial antipiracy bills being debated in Congress.
- mikotondria30
This place is fucked then, isn't it, if that goes through ?
Seriously, if all it takes to shut down a site is an accusation of copyright-infringement linking, then fuck me - I've got a new past-time... every one of those cunts involved in this will be permanently shut down. There will be armies of us lining up to make accusations.. Armies.- pretty much. Bye bye freedom of speech, hello Gestapo. Saudi Arabia I mean Egypt is seeing this now.panacea
- welcome to the new internet, were dissent is ▮▮▮▮▮▮GeorgesII
- I'll eat dirt and live in a box.
Fuck them.mikotondria3 - you might have to at this rate. they're all crookedpanacea
- panacea0
ahhh you beat me too it, thought it deserved its own thread
- ukit20
Wikipedia to blackout its site for 24 hours this Wednesday in protest of SOPA
- monospaced0
World's ending this year anyway.
- ukit20
- Fuck off you onerous sack of shit.mikotondria3
- haha Murdoch with the wisecrackspanacea
- autoflavour0
- congress seem to be backpeddling on SOPA.. we live in hopeautoflavour
- combinatorial0
everyone is leaving this place, says the collective.
http://separatedinmath.blogspot.…- http://separatedinma…combinatorial
- dna age is over. future world works like a computer (delete button offered)combinatorial
- deathboy0
http://www.sltrib.com/sltrib/pol…
In fighting online piracy, Mark Shurtleff accused of plagarizing. heh
- pablo280
- https://www.youtube.…pablo28
- props to this guy. shared.BrokenHD
- he is really annoying.. but i want to keep watchingautoflavour
- his little hat looks like a penis
autoflavour
- randommail0
2012.
I believe it now.
- TheBlueOne0
The lobbyists spent $91 million in support of getting this bill passed. That's $91million dollars in the pockets of this assholes in Congress. Meanwhile American citizens sent 'em some pieces of paper with their names on it saying "pretty please don't pass this or we'll be forced to send you more papers with our signatures and maybe some irate blog posts". The lobbyists shrug and toss in another million.
Welcome to a country that now believes that $ is political speech entitled to the highest legal protections and people standing in a park is tantamount to terrorism and deserves a violent response from authorities.
Get the fuck out now.
- dMullins0
Okay, I just read that TechDirt article.
When was the last time Congress extended their session for anything? I seem to recall in the midst of the '08 economic downturn AND the year of the Iraq bombings, Congress was like, "Eh, we'll be back in about a month."
http://www.techdirt.com/articles…
"...Despite the fact that Congress was supposed to be out of session until the end of January, the Judiciary Committee has just announced plans to come back to continue the markup this coming Wednesday. This is rather unusual and totally unnecessary. But it shows just how desperate Hollywood is to pass this bill as quickly as possible, before the momentum of opposition builds up even further."
Everything is fucked beyond belief in America these days.