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Internet Censorship Bill !
November 17, 2011 - 04:49 AM
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SOPA: Entire Internet protests 'Internet Censorship Bill'
This is how the U.S. government wants to treat you, say SOPA critics.
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A Congressional bill intended to fight piracy is drawing fire from the Internet establishment, who say it would put the United States on a path to Chinese-style repression.
The Stop Online Piracy Act (known as the PROTECT IP Act in its Senate form) would allow the government to force Internet service providers to deny service to web sites that host pirated material -- even if those sites were hosted overseas. The bill is the result of heavy lobbying by the entertainment industry.
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Intended to combat the trade in pirated movies and music, the two bills would give copyright holders and law enforcement officials added powers to cut off websites and require search engines, payment collectors and others to block access.
Under the proposed House bill, the burden of punishment for uploading copyrighted material to web sites would be shifted from the user to the site owners. Any site that unknowingly hosted such material could be shut down entirely, critics say.
As SOPA receives its first Congressional hearing today, many Internet heavyweights have spoken out against what they say are its repressive tactics. Google Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt called the bill's measures "draconian," adding that forcing ISPs "to remove URLs from the Web [was] known as censorship last time I checked.''
Tech groups have banded together in opposition to the bill, declaring today American Censorship Day. In honor of the occasion, sites around the web are displaying their logos as "BLOCKED" black bars, or opening up fake splash pages saying that the site has been blocked. Sites like Wikipedia and tumblr have argued that the bill would place an unfair burden on them, while Reddit has taken efforts one step further and organized a lobbying effort against the bill.
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Re: Internet Censorship Bill !
December 15, 2011 - 02:26 AM
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I do agree that there is a lot of inflammatory material online which could be used for anti-social propaganda and brainwashing.
When I speak for myself or anybody who had access to proper education and healthy social interaction, I don't think these sites could in anyway be an influence since we don't go looking for these sites and even if we come across such info on web, we just ignore it or view it critically. But the same cannot be said for everyone on the planet, otherwise we would've never had suicide bombings and large scale terror networks across the planet.
So, some sort of censorship or internet policing is required to either protect individuals or countries as whole.
But, it needs to be seen how such censorship is implemented ; the scale and extent of censorship; under whose authority; and most importantly the fine line between censorship, privacy, and freedom of speech.
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Re: Internet Censorship Bill !
January 12, 2012 - 09:58 PM
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I'm from Canada, and this bill would also unintentionally harm Canadian internet users. Because so many websites are based in the U.S, the mass censoring and therefore reduced website traffic will result in alot of websites being outright shut down. Could you imagine if this actually passed? There might be huge riots all of the U.S. Piracy does need to be combated, just not this way.
This post was edited on: 2012-01-12 at 09:58 PM by: alex knott
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