Internet crackdown coming?
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- ukit0
@ dnoobie
Shorter version: You type www.piratebay.org (or any site like this) into your browser, and you can't access it. Big corps (like Comcast, which is also a content provider since it owns NBC) now have the government sanctioned right to block any site "suspected" of file sharing, and Google will be forced to drop them from their search results.
And regardless of what you think about file sharing..imagine the implications of this.
- wow, that is very ambiguous - big brother could rationalize anything w that - , thanksdnoobie
- aldebaran0
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- ukit0
What's most disgusting is the complete radio silence on this in the media...who are obviously the same people pushing for this bill.
Only the tech industry is standing up against this...if you look at the results it is mostly smaller tech blogs and internet freedom groups and not big sites like Huffington Post or NYT.
- http://www.google.co…Dodecahedron
- not much better in the newsDodecahedron
- GeorgesII0
http://www.americancensorship.or…
5 more days and if it passes the US will be no better than a totalitarian country,
for fucks sakes what happened to the innovative US of 10 years ago, everything evaporated so fast,
it's weird to look at it from the outside and see how cornered you all will be soon,
patriot act/ war on terror/ drugs/ protect ip/what the fuck happened?
americans it's now or never
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- mikotondria30
It was fun while it lasted.
Nice knowing you all.- Hey, the world's ending anyway. So it may not matter.ukit
- DrBombay0
As long as our government is owned by corporations there isn't fuck-all anyone can do about this.
- dorf0
No matter how many laws are passed the collective minds of hackers and nerds will outsmart the small group of ill-advised politicians.
- Yup.mikotondria3
- Agreed – a solution will present itself. This shit is fucking evil though!NONEIS
- moldero0
It will start with torrent sites, in the end they will probably be taking down sites like qbn for FMT's then probably even simple portfolio sites for things like unlicensed use of an audio track used in a reel, crap like that.
- 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
- mg330
So couple big questions:
1) Who is going to enforce this? Is an entire agency of people going to be created to analyze every website to look into copyright issues?
2) What does Google/YouTube have to lose by not complying with supposed government orders to censor content?
- I bet they already got everything setup and readyGeorgesII
- clearThoughts0
:(
- GeorgesII0
I read years ago, that the wall they were building between the US and Mexico, wasn't to keep the Mexicans from coming to the Us but to keep Americans from escaping there,
everything was going pretty fine at that time and I brushed of the idea, something tells me in 10 years the scenario will be so bad that the poor sod that remained will wish they would have emigrated when it was still possible
sorry, i'm rambling
- GeorgesII0
did a quick google search and I see that Ron Paul actually said it on tv,
does this guy ever want to be president, he's not toeing the line
- DrBombay0
George, if there is something negative to be said about America, you will latch on and run with it. No matter how fucking ridiculous it might be. You are not much better than that DRGS guy, but he is just trolling.
- Beeswax0
I live in Istanbul Turkey. We shouted and protested a lot about this issue. Government recently issued a law that allows ISPs to start selling packages that allows pre-approved content. They say the reason behind this is to protect the families and kids by limiting their reach to certain sites, it'll be just like getting a cable package. The law doesn't apply yet and I have no idea how it'll be once they do.