Please be aware of SOPA

[allrock123]

Here we go again , 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

In a nut shell here's what the law would do:

Assign liability to site owners for "everything" users post, without consideration for whether or not the user posted without permission. Site owners could face jail time or heavy fines, and DNS blacklisting.

It would require web services like YouTube, Facebook, and Twitter to monitor and aggressively filter everything all users upload.

It would deny site owners due process of law, by initiating a DNS blacklisting based solely on a good faith assertion by an individual copyright or intellectual property owner.
It would give the U.S. government the power to selectively censor the web using techniques similar to those used in China, Malaysia and Iran. The Great Firewall of China is an example of this type of embedded, infrastructural internet censorship.

Please Be aware of what just what SOPA would do to the internet , Almost every youtube video that uses any copywrited material"creative or not" would cease to exist each video would require extensive permission review before it could be shown, As a simple example a video of a childs birthday party with a radio playing copyrighted music faintly in the background would likely have its soundtrack disabled , get lucky enougth to catch a clip of a movie playing on the TV and they would reject the whole video , every website would have liability for any user summited content . the list goes on and on , in short the content owners would have huge powers over what people can show or play. creating a legal nightmare for any website that shows media. if you dont like what you see please speak out the Electronic Frontier Foundation has link on this issue.look under take action in the top header https://www.eff.org/

Please be aware that changes are being made in stop SOPA as huge protest to the bill is being heard in the
white house, its very unlikey to pass with goverment having the ability to control the DNS routing system.
there are still issues with website liability that need to be addresed thank you for raising your voice on this issue.
http://www.cnn.com/2012/01/16/tech/w...ion=cnn_latest

[Ja'k Dawsiin]

sooner or later,one of these internet censor plans will be passed...it will be a sad day indeed. a day that will live in infamy. we supposedly fight for and spread freedom/democracy/rights,and our own p.o.s. gov't is the leading criminal organization in the movement to 'police' the internet. disgusting.

the ultimate goal of this movement is money.......they want to charge you a fee for every post you make,and have absolute control of the content you post. i had a cell phone plan a while back that charged me .02 cents for every text,sending or receiving. that's what the fascist corporates want....charge you a fee for every post,everything you do.


pretty soon,these clowns will be charging us for the air we breathe.

[prowler]

pretty soon,these clowns will be charging us for the air we breathe.

i thought they already were... But seriously this law is just plain silly...

[Ximphron]

I think we all know that something is going very wrong with this country. Someone please reanimate the founding fathers and get this place sane again.

[allrock123]

Thankfully people in goverment are listening after people raised much protest over this issue
White House blasts Internet piracy bills - CNN.com

[Aihwa]

the ultimate goal of this movement is money.......they want to charge you a fee for every post you make,and have absolute control of the content you post. i had a cell phone plan a while back that charged me .02 cents for every text,sending or receiving. that's what the fascist corporates want....charge you a fee for every post,everything you do.

You already pay for everything you do on the internet. Its called an internet bill. Protect IP and SOPA are about censorship. If you're going to post something, DO. RESEARCH.

[Ja'k Dawsiin]

You already pay for everything you do on the internet. Its called an internet bill. Protect IP and SOPA are about censorship. If you're going to post something, DO. RESEARCH.

really? geez,you're like a broken record of gibberish. do you ever read the crap you post? i didn't think so. *shaking my head*

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*it's like having my own personal troll*

[Sanjwale]

It will be a black day if it will happen

[MarkD]

Given the article, now that someone is paying attention it won't happen.

The DNS comes up alot in the article saying that if it were to pass it would do more harm than good to security among other things the current DNS protects against. Not to mention if the bill did pass it would also cause chaos with many, many people going to extreme lengths of illegal activity to what was once before easy and not a problem. China already has that problem given the stuff about them hacking to get information, etc as their country is so tightly controlled by their government. There , you have no say in what you can do. It's like the movie 1984 with the ones in charge telling them what to think and believe since their outside view of the world is limited.

One thing though I wish would go away are the stupid crap people post, Rick rolled has to go, and I mean that. I'm sick of that damn thing.

[_Omaticaya_]

One thing though I wish would go away are the stupid crap people post, Rick rolled has to go, and I mean that. I'm sick of that damn thing.

ROTFL agreed