Posted on 09/30/2010 11:07:05 AM PDT by Smogger
Senate sponsors have eased off a bill aimed at cracking down on online piracy after an outcry from Internet engineers who say the proposal would effectively censor the Web.
The Combating Online Infringement and Counterfeits Act still would contain some highly controversial provisions, but senators proposed an amendment Wednesday to strip from the bill language that allowed the Justice Department to publish a blacklist of websites "dedicated to infringing activities."
Under the original bill, the Justice Department would be able to green light Internet service providers to go after those sites by providing them legal immunity.
The amendment also would lessen requirements on service providers to clean up their networks. But the bill would still give the attorney general broad new powers to seek court approval to shut down websites deemed dedicated to counterfeit material.
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Arrrrrghgghhhhissssssssssssssss.
Hey, sharks can hiss!
Who knew?
All he had to do was miss a pirate party.
Well, I now have a spork hand.
Typing is even harder now.
*Attempts to drink flagon of wine*
Apologies to Keira Knightly........
Arr.. I have a spork hand, and a hook leg.
And one big bulging cork eye!
*tapped on shoulder.. muttered voice.. ‘but ya have two eyes!’*
Eh?
Arrr.. ‘tis not me eye but tis Twitchy Tims, Davey Jones rest him peaceful loik.
Keep your hands off my Frerepublic and everything else on the internet.
I think it will apply to every site on the web. Political sites, networking sites, sites dedicated to studying music recipe sites, fan sites photos, much of what is sold on ebay and ioffer,bye bye youtube no political videos, music, old movies or eyewitness videos that might humiliate certain politicians.Might as well take down the whole web.Only thing left would be a commercial sites, stores professional media, government.Nothing from the “little people - oh I get it now!
Guess they have to shut down the internet before too many Americans realize Obama wasn’t legally certified by the Democrat Party to run for President. But maybe they wouldn’t care anyway.
btt
perish the thought...Ahrggg!
Another name for my list. :-)
I’ve been reading this posts and been thinking about a couple of responses.
First, it might be a good thing to experience something like this. I’m not kidding. A good old kick in the teeth has a bracing effect on people who are sitting around waiting for motivation. Which brings me to...
Second, good luck trying to stop illicit communications in an era when people can process mass amounts of information on a flash drive, encrypt hidden files, run from one proxy to another... even print off pamphlets in the dead of night and scatter them around town. Solzhenitsyn had to write in tiny letters and hide scraps of paper in his shoe. In this era, we can literally move encyclopedic amounts of data around, almost in plain sight. What would it take to save the contents of these posts and hide it somewhere on a newly-burned DVD? Or inside a cell phone? The powers which seek this sort of censorship have no clue. Which brings me to....
The scarier thought. The censorship is established, and everything goes along just as it was... with the exception of the occasional victim, who is paraded around as the incarnation of Osama bin Lade. No reason to censor everyone’s post when a few well-publicized victims demonstrate what it means to cross the powers in charge. Self-censorship is always preferred, and many people will do to avoid trouble.
And liberty dies with a whimper. With free porn, too.
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