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| yass | Sep 29 2010, 08:32 AM Post #1 |
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Night before last I woke up to a dream saying the Internet was going out and to save things. I thought about posting it [being it's rare when I remember a dream] but declined. Within the last couple weeks or so someone at the Icke forum, in the dream section, had a dream that the Icke forums would be hacked and everyone's personal information posted in place of the threads. Today I read the news that some things in this direction are going down... and will be voted on Thursday... which is tomorrow. I decided I'd post my dream and the news report. Posted: September 27, 2010 09:40 AM Stop the Internet Blacklist By David Segal and Aaron Swartz When it really matters to them, Congressmembers can come together -- with a panache and wry wit you didn't know they had. As banned books week gets underway, and President Obama admonishes oppressive regimes for their censorship of the Internet, a group of powerful Senators -- Republicans and Democrats alike -- have signed onto a bill that would vastly expand the government's power to censor the Internet. The Combating Online Infringement and Counterfeits Act (COICA) was introduced just one week ago, but it's greased and ready to move, with a hearing in front of the Judiciary Committee this Thursday. If people don't speak out, US citizens could soon find themselves joining Iranians and Chinese in being blocked from accessing broad chunks of the public Internet. COICA creates two blacklists of Internet domain names. Courts could add sites to the first list; the Attorney General would have control over the second. Internet service providers and others (everyone from Comcast to PayPal to Google AdSense) would be required to block any domains on the first list. They would also receive immunity (and presumably the good favor of the government) if they block domains on the second list. The lists are for sites "dedicated to infringing activity," but that's defined very broadly -- any domain name where counterfeit goods or copyrighted material are "central to the activity of the Internet site" could be blocked. One example of what this means in practice: sites like YouTube could be censored in the US. Copyright holders like Viacom often argue copyrighted material is central to the activity of YouTube, but under current US law, YouTube is perfectly legal as long as they take down copyrighted material when they're informed about it -- which is why Viacom lost to YouTube in court. But if COICA passes, Viacom wouldn't even need to prove YouTube is doing anything illegal to get it shut down -- as long as they can persuade the courts that enough other people are using it for copyright infringement, the whole site could be censored. Perhaps even more disturbing: Even if Viacom couldn't get a court to compel censorship of a YouTube or a similar site, the DOJ could put it on the second blacklist and encourage ISPs to block it even without a court order. (ISPs have ample reason to abide the will of the powerful DOJ, even if the law doesn't formally require them to do so.) COICA's passage would be a tremendous blow to free speech on the Internet -- and likely a first step towards much broader online censorship. Please help us fight back: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-segal/stop-the-internet-blackli_b_739836.html |
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| yass | Sep 29 2010, 08:38 AM Post #2 |
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I think WIO even mentioned something about the Internet going out... something about that race in China... she said they might try dismantling it there first. Yeah, yesterday my wireless was out all day I thought maybe that's what my dream was. Edited by yass, Sep 29 2010, 07:12 PM.
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| wathap2u | Sep 29 2010, 10:19 PM Post #3 |
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I hope they do lock it out, you bet your bottom dollar that over 50% of the people who own computers and pay monthly to a server are here because they can search porn. So go ahead and watch all that money go bye-bye . I bet this would have a huge effect on the market. Sensor this B-I-A-T-C-H. Humans will always find a way to get around this. Besides I am sick of the Internet anyway ,whatever to the good ole fashion ways of doing business. SHUT THE MOFO DOWN and see who it really hurts . The Chinese never had much freedom any way so their not missing much. Maybe we wont be sitting on our ass at this wed site chatting about what were going to do, Maybe will just take it to the streets right to the heart . What did you say they were censoring ? |
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| wathap2u | Sep 29 2010, 10:26 PM Post #4 |
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OHHHHHH ITS ABOUT COPY-WRITE LAWS well that didn't work to well with NAPSTER now did it Napster is 10 years old this week. Launched on June 1, 1999, the illegal download site was sued into near-oblivion two years later – but the digital music revolution it unleashed has since brought a once-mighty recording industry to its knees. Although, like a slow-release poison gradually flooding the bloodstream, perhaps what's surprising is just how long it's taken for the victim to die. What is Napster's legacy? In pure business terms, you could argue its influence has been negligible. Napster popularised the act of downloading. Steve Jobs and Apple were the ones who monetized it, via iTunes and the iPod. But the site's impact on broader attitudes, in particular, the perceived value of recorded music, has been immense – and mostly pernicious. Remember they could give crap about what you know or see as long as your paying for it. Screw Metallica that shit should censored. Enter the Sandman. |
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| yass | Sep 29 2010, 10:40 PM Post #5 |
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Yeah, I was sort of thinking it would take it right to the streets, too. The sleepyheads might yet wake up... locally. |
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