Internet crackdown coming?
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- ukit20
Legislation that would prevent Americans from visiting websites the government claims are violating copyright rules had a tumultuous first hearing Wednesday, with its main sponsor unexpectedly expressing reservations over the bill’s scope.
Rep. Lamar Smith (R-Texas), one the chief sponsors of the bill, expressed uncertainty over allowing the Justice Department to obtain court orders demanding that American ISPs prevent users from visiting blacklisted websites. ISPs receiving such orders would have to alter records in the net’s system for looking up website names, known as DNS.
The House bill also allows the Justice Department to order search sites like Google to remove an allegedly “rogue” site from its search results.
“I’m not a technical expert on this,” the chairman of the committee said, adding moments later: “I’m trying to ferret this out.”
- oey0
- animatedgif0
Time for Internet 2.0
- seeessess0
Fu
- prophetone0
say... qbn for example.
- ukit0
lol....I doubt QBN would be on their radar. But you can bet The Pirate Bay and other sites that are headquartered offshores will be.
- i don't know, we have some interesting weekly threads with links o plenty to certain "things"prophetone
- fuck that logic. if it's one, it's all of us at risk.dMullins
- ukit0
And how long before this stuff starts getting used for political purposes? 1984 here we come
- shade0
this is serious stuff but I doubt that my thoughts will make a difference. What should we do? How does one go about helping Google exempt government oversight?
- Beeswax0
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- fresnobob0
"Intellectual property infringement" is such a sketchy term.
- dbloc0
B rett B ash
- dnoobie0
anybody provide an abstract for the "legal jargon" impaired?
- ukit0
lol...B rett B ash finally meets his maker. The silver lining of a dark cloud.
- Hombre_Lobo0
I agree with sessses, but sadly and disgustingly for some bizarre reason legislations and laws that get passed on the US often filter down to other countries on a worldwide scale.
Any petition we can sign opposed to this?
- aldebaran0
So what about search companies that don't operate in the U.S.?
This proposed law seems a bit short sighted and lacks an understanding of the lengths people will go to to get what they want on the net.