Stop the Internet "Blacklist" Legislation ('S.O.P.A.' bill)

gizgal · 2011-11-16T19:48:01-01:00

For those who haven't heard, today a bill is being proposed in Congress that would really ruin the neutral nature of the internet. From the EFF (source): "The Internet Blacklist Legislation - known as PROTECT IP Act in the Senate and Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) in the House - is a threatening sequel to last year's COICA Internet censorship bill. Like its predecessor, this legislation invites Internet security risks, threatens online speech, and hampers Internet innovation. Urge your members of Congress to reject this Internet blacklist campaign in both its forms! Big media and its allies in Congress are billing the Internet Blacklist Legislation as a new way to prevent online infringement. But innovation and free speech advocates know that this initiative is nothing more than a dangerous wish list that will compromise Internet security while doing little or nothing to encourage creative expression. As drafted, the legislation would grant the government and private parties unprecedented power to interfere with the Internet's domain name system (DNS). The government would be able to force ISPs and search engines to redirect or dump users' attempts to reach certain websites' URLs. In response, third parties will woo average users to alternative servers that offer access to the entire Internet (not just the newly censored U.S. version), which will create new computer security vulnerabilities as the reliability and universality of the DNS evaporates. It gets worse: Under SOPA's provisions, service providers (including hosting services) would be under new pressure to monitor and police their users’ activities. While PROTECT-IP targeted sites “dedicated to infringing activities,” SOPA targets websites that simply don’t do enough to track and police infringement (and it is not at all clear what would be enough). And it creates new powers to shut down folks who provide tools to help users get access to the Internet the rest of the world sees (not just the “U.S. authorized version”). Senator Ron Wyden (D-OR) has placed a hold on the Senate version of the bill, taking a principled stand against a very dangerous bill. But every Senator and Representative should be opposing the PROTECT IP Act and SOPA. Contact your members of Congress today to speak out!" Sound bad enough already? WRITE CONGRESS. They're not allowing dissenting parties to be present at the hearing today, just the corporations that want this bill to pass. As a user of the Internet, don't you want it to stay free and neutral? http://americancensorship.org/ Using this official site, enter your info (if you don't want to tell your address, just put your general town/city and a fake email) and a letter will be sent telling Congress that you, like so many others online, DON'T APPROVE of this restrictive and unfair bill! Wondering why you haven't heard of this, even though it's being brought before Congress TODAY? This major event is flying under the radar of major media because the people who "run"/own the mainstream media will benefit from this controlling bill; they aren't going to inform you that they're supporting this. Don't let your voice go un-heard! [size=10]/urgent advocacy message. I don't usually get this passionate about stuff, but this will certainly effect our community if it passes![/h]

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iLife91

12 years ago

Who the fuck voted yes for this poll? (not including trolls)

lassdes

12 years ago

I think Raigake-sama would vociferously oppose to SOPA, he ll send all those madmen in a jar and POP' =D.

@e-L33T

12 years ago

iMoloko wrote...

davebloodstorm wrote...

Too bad we lost megaupload in the fight for anti-piracy...............Megaupload you shall be missed.........................

A pricy sacrifice. TT ^TT

Gravity cat the adequately amused

12 years ago

No internet dictatorship for another decade. Even the ESA withdrew support.

KittenIgnition

12 years ago

Hentai is copyright protected? o.O

Chlor

12 years ago

Call me cynical, but I think this gives the US 2-3 years tops. Shelved does not mean abandoned. Next time they just won't go (as) public about signing it.

zman361

12 years ago

iMoloko wrote...

via Tiffany Cheng of FightfortheFuture.

Hi everyone!

A big hurrah to you!!!!! We’ve won for now -- SOPA and PIPA were dropped by Congress today -- the votes we’ve been scrambling to mobilize against have been cancelled.

The largest online protest in history has fundamentally changed the game. You were heard.

On January 18th, 13 million of us took the time to tell Congress to protect free speech rights on the internet. Hundreds of millions, maybe a billion, people all around the world saw what we did on Wednesday. See the amazing numbers here and tell everyone what you did.

This was unprecedented. Your activism may have changed the way people fight for the public interest and basic rights forever.

The MPAA (the lobby for big movie studios which created these terrible bills) was shocked and seemingly humbled. “†˜This was a whole new different game all of a sudden,’ MPAA Chairman and former Senator Chris Dodd told the New York Times. †˜[PIPA and SOPA were] considered by many to be a slam dunk.’”

“'This is altogether a new effect,' Mr. Dodd said, comparing the online movement to the Arab Spring. He could not remember seeing 'an effort that was moving with this degree of support change this dramatically' in the last four decades, he added."

Tweet with us, shout on the internet with us, let's celebrate: Round of applause to the 13 million people who stood up - #PIPA and #SOPA are tabled 4 now. #13millionapplause

We're indebted to everyone who helped in the beginning of this movement -- you, and all the sites that went out on a limb to protest in November -- Boing Boing and Mozilla Foundation (and thank you Tumblr, 4chan)! And the grassroots groups -- Public Knowledge, Electronic Frontier Foundation, Demand Progress, CDT, and many more.

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FELLOW FAKKU-ERS! TONIGHT WE PARTY BY TORRENTING EVERY SEASON OF EVERY SHOW.

Andoru-Kun

12 years ago

As Flaser Said early in the thread, This isnt over. Until a side retains victory and laws are made that fully determine who can do what, their will always be an argument on the topic.

edibleghost

12 years ago

say what! wrote...

iMoloko wrote...

say what! wrote...

Oh look another SOPA thread I think this is like the 7 now.

Oh look! You said something I literally said in the topic's name!

Oh look you created another SOPA thread when you could have posted the information in an already existing thread.

Oh look, you upped your post count when you could have shut the fuck up. :D

say what!

12 years ago

edibleghost wrote...

say what! wrote...

iMoloko wrote...

say what! wrote...

Oh look another SOPA thread I think this is like the 7 now.

Oh look! You said something I literally said in the topic's name!

Oh look you created another SOPA thread when you could have posted the information in an already existing thread.

Oh look, you upped your post count when you could have shut the fuck up. :D

Ok it was my opinion that there was an abundance of sopa threads and I don't care about rep.

edibleghost

12 years ago

say what! wrote...

Ok it was my opinion that there was an abundance of sopa threads and I don't care about rep.

Lol it's k bro, I don't care about your rep either, that's why I took it away.

say what!

12 years ago

edibleghost wrote...

say what! wrote...

Ok it was my opinion that there was an abundance of sopa threads and I don't care about rep.

Lol it's k bro, I don't care about your rep either, that's why I took it away.

good for you :)

COOKIES4LIFE

12 years ago

this is not something honorable like protecting freedom of speech, although it may suit us to pretend so. I hate to be "that guy" but we all just want to keep getting our free shit for free. Take the morale high ground if you must, I just say "it is what it is." And I love free porn.

Anesthetize

12 years ago

Okay, this is kind of irrelevant but it kind of agitates me that this thread has 12 pages while the Wall Street protests had a significantly fewer page count.

I guess it's everything wrong with modern society today summed up in a curve ball.

iMoloko

12 years ago

edibleghost wrote...

say what! wrote...

Ok it was my opinion that there was an abundance of sopa threads and I don't care about rep.

Lol it's k bro, I don't care about your rep either, that's why I took it away.

Almost spat out water laughing.

Gatoenllamas

12 years ago

I think that people should check it
http://www.anonymousuk.org/

tehnores

12 years ago

Fakku is safe, unless some Japanese hentai publishers decide to sue Fakku (which is based in the USA). Fakku has a strict rule against USA-licensed content.

LunaWard

12 years ago

I sure hope fakku is safe. Sure Fakku is a site with Japanese content, only based in US. But megaupload's headquarter isn't in US either, and it still got taken down. I feeling doubtful of how I watch anime.. I haven't experience the setback completely yet but not just anime, music, manga, games, and even information would probably be inaccessible. God, future is bleak, 2012.. indeed the end of the world...

papermasterz

12 years ago

Wow that certainly is informative. However too long for me to comprehend fully. So this means that SOPA is already reaching its grasp on Spain? Ugh.. I sure hope they don't reach Japan. Get all the countries but not my Japan.

Circe

12 years ago

I just wanted to leave this little article about SOPA/PIPA being shelved.

http://searchenginewatch.com/article/2140751/SOPA-PIPA-On-Hold-But-a-New-Threat-on-Horizon

Especially for this nugget regarding the Child Protection/Data Retention bill:

"This bill is not about crimes against children. That’s just window dressing designed to push through an Orwellian law that would see all citizens monitored and their activities recorded, at the expense of ISPs. U.S. law already allows the collection of IP addresses when a person is suspected of a crime, and this law extends far beyond use in crimes against children. To be clear, the report states, “The Committee rejected an amendment to limit access to IP address data to only certain crimes against children and related offenses."

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