EVE General Discussion

"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, and hampers Internet innovation. Urge your members of Congress to reject this Internet blacklist campaign in both its forms!"

Petition

Extract:

Big media and its allies in Congress are billing the Internet Blacklist Legislation as a new way to prevent online infringement. But innovation and free speech advocates know that this initiative is nothing more than a dangerous wish list that will compromise Internet security while doing little or nothing to encourage creative expression.

As drafted, the legislation would grant the government and private parties unprecedented power to interfere with the Internet's domain name system (DNS). The government would be able to force ISPs and search engines to redirect or dump users' attempts to reach certain websites' URLs. In response, third parties will woo average users to alternative servers that offer access to the entire Internet (not just the newly censored U.S. version), which will create new computer security vulnerabilities as the reliability and universality of the DNS evaporates.

It gets worse: Under SOPA's provisions, service providers (including hosting services) would be under new pressure to monitor and police their users’ activities. While PROTECT-IP targeted sites “dedicated to infringing activities,” SOPA targets websites that simply don’t do enough to track and police infringement (and it is not at all clear what would be enough). And it creates new powers to shut down folks who provide tools to help users get access to the Internet the rest of the world sees (not just the “U.S. authorized version”).

Senator Ron Wyden (D-OR) has placed a hold on the Senate version of the bill, taking a principled stand against a very dangerous bill. But every Senator and Representative should be opposing the PROTECT IP Act and SOPA. Contact your members of Congress today to speak out!

just make a new network

But they're protecting the children guys! And who knows how many stray calories the evil fast food industry is pumping into the intertubes each day, it's making you addicted and fat!

Is this the same bill that says IP companies are forbidden from releasing user information to authorities without a Federal order?

Or was that a different one...

INB4MTOOPE

They are trying to stop the alternative media.

Ah, those days of the 1950s are long gone - those good olde days when everybody totally believed what the media told them. The Mighty Wurlitzer played the sheep so well.

After the 60s and 70s, they even tried to make "50 retro" so popular as if the country would be better off if we went back to those good old days, as if the freedom movement prior to being coopted like the Tea Party and OWS is today was the cause of all the ills of society.


The genie is long out of the bottle and we know the world is run by criminals. It's too late to put it back in. Let them try though, it only makes them look like the tyrants they are, and when Joe Sixpack can't get his sports scores and Sally Sokkermom can't get into Second Life to pretend she's skinny and pretty, they'll realize the truth and flap, and the next Million Man March in Washington DC (also known as Mordor) will involve rope and sledgehammers.

Yay my first double post.

Yeah screw you bush let's get a mover and shaker up in her bring a lil jive in this hizzy

Well he created it

I am under the impression that politics is not to be brought up in our forums (let alone in the Eve-related-only General Discussion section).

Except the bill was introduced by a Democrat. Herp derp.

Change you can believe in!