Posted on 11/23/2010 1:55:02 AM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
When Senators give speeches, they will say that you can’t put a price on freedom. But as it turns out you can. You can actually put an exact dollar amount on the Constitution. And that amount is $335,906.
That’s the amount that Hollywood gave Senator Patrick Leahy. And in return, Leahy gave them COICA. That’s not the same of some new disease, it’s the abbreviation for Combating Online Infringement and Counterfeits Act, the biggest and more comprehensive internet censorship proposal in the history of this country. It would give Attorney General Eric Holder the power to create a blacklist of websites and force all companies that do business in the United States to comply with that blacklist.
Ever since the Clinton Administration’s Communications Decency Act, Democrats have been obsessed with censoring the internet. And that drive has kicked into high gear again. COICA is the most ambitious plan to enact government control over freedom of expression on the internet since the days of the CDA.
While this bill was crafted on behalf of the entertainment industry, the applications go far beyond that. Websites that feature collections of articles, such as FreeRepublic or DemocraticUnderground could easily be targeted under the terms of COICA. And so could many blogs, which list entire articles or cite extensively from them. Any site or blog that embeds videos or images which are not authorized by the copyright holder could be similarly targeted. And with the Attorney General of a highly politicized administration wielding the power to preemptively shutter and blacklist entire websites, it would be all too easy for COICA to be used as a club for suppressing dissent....
(Excerpt) Read more at canadafreepress.com ...
Ping!
Can the goverment shut down foreign web sites?
COICA will lead to warders coming aboard to guard the Internet, government gatekeepers to obstruct our free speech? Warder boarding the Internet is unconstitutional!
As unaware as many Americans are, I think censoring the internet I think would lead to a huge uproar.
>>As unaware as many Americans are, I think censoring the internet I think would lead to a huge uproar.<<
Only if the porno sites are shut down.
Their days are numbered. The internet’s are just beginning.
It's time for the Tea Party to run someone - anyone - against this Hollywood suck-up. Or boycott Vermont. Or both...
Leaky Leahy again.
What a total POS that guy is.
Put Vermon at the top of the boycott list.....The asshats who live there seem to love Leahy’s brand of politics.....with the exception of the few and vastly outnumbered FReepers, et al.
Sorry...I was thinking “vermin” and meant to write “Vermont” so it came out “Vermon”...It’s too early in the day for all of this.
You’re right - too early in the day for this kind of stuff...
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FYI
bump
COICA: The acronym sounds kinda dirty, but it’s much worse than that...
PING!
Repeal it in January!!!!
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