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Stop the Internet Blacklist Legislation

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Kasak Khan
Victim Support
Pandemic Horde
#1 - 2011-12-06 21:25:31 UTC  |  Edited by: Kasak Khan
"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!
Graic Gabtar
The Lemon Party
#2 - 2011-12-06 21:30:40 UTC
EVE IS DYING!!!

Oh wait, your country just fails at net neutrality.
hundurinn
Deep Core Mining Inc.
Caldari State
#3 - 2011-12-06 21:31:43 UTC
just make a new network
Handsome Hussein
#4 - 2011-12-06 21:33:37 UTC
Kasak Khan wrote:
Senator Ron Wyden (D-OR)

Thankfully, I don't have to send any emails because my representative isn't a complete ******* power-grabbing douche (in this case).

Leaves only the fresh scent of pine.

Tammy Triscuit
#5 - 2011-12-06 21:44:10 UTC
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!
Nova Fox
Novafox Shipyards
#6 - 2011-12-06 21:48:14 UTC
Great another thing they want to tax, and knowing the dems that all they want to do, tax the top 10%

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Corina Jarr
en Welle Shipping Inc.
#7 - 2011-12-06 21:53:47 UTC
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...
Marlona Sky
State War Academy
Caldari State
#8 - 2011-12-06 21:54:34 UTC
I'm all for the destruction of certain websites like TBP. Also corporations who use advertising space on a website should be fined heavily when said website conducts illegal activity such as piracy and child pornography.

Yeah, I said it.
Herzog Wolfhammer
Sigma Special Tactics Group
#9 - 2011-12-06 21:58:44 UTC
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.

Bring back DEEEEP Space!

Corina Jarr
en Welle Shipping Inc.
#10 - 2011-12-06 22:05:26 UTC
Marlona Sky wrote:
I'm all for the destruction of certain websites like TBP. Also corporations who use advertising space on a website should be fined heavily when said website conducts illegal activity such as piracy and child pornography.

Yeah, I said it.

Just last week I downloaded some of my cousin's music (he writes his own) from TPB.

The point. It has legal uses. Don't punish everyone for the actions of... a lot of people.
Corina Jarr
en Welle Shipping Inc.
#11 - 2011-12-06 22:05:31 UTC  |  Edited by: Corina Jarr
Yay my first double post.
Sara XIII
The Carnifex Corp
#12 - 2011-12-06 23:03:07 UTC
GD you George Bush!!!!
Between Ignorance and Wisdom
Tammy Triscuit
#13 - 2011-12-06 23:28:32 UTC
Yeah screw you bush let's get a mover and shaker up in her bring a lil jive in this hizzy
Nova Fox
Novafox Shipyards
#14 - 2011-12-06 23:30:53 UTC
GW been out of office for 4 years now. Why you blame him still, thats like blaming al gore for the current state of the internet.

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Surfin's PlunderBunny
Sebiestor Tribe
Minmatar Republic
#15 - 2011-12-06 23:32:23 UTC
Nova Fox wrote:
GW been out of office for 4 years now. Why you blame him still, thats like blaming al gore for the current state of the internet.


Well he created it P

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Serene Repose
#16 - 2011-12-06 23:32:57 UTC  |  Edited by: Serene Repose
Hilarious. WE have an election coming up. Dump the Reps and this sort of buggaboo disappears along with them. Dump them and bury them. Their day was over ... two centuries ago. The knuckle draggers that keep them alive? Well...live and let live I always say...ahem.

BTW Al Gore never said he created the internet. He said he "grandfathered" the bill to make it open to the public. And, he did. With this sort of ignorance becoming conventional wisdom, it's hard to imagine a U.S. that would know what to do with a secure internet...oh yeah, COMMERCIALIZE IT! (Knocked that one over the wall.) But, watch. Knowing Al Gore DIDN'T claim to invent the internet won't be enough to stop people from revealing their stupidity by continuing to say it. You've been propagandized.

Why would I fight for a free internet for people like that? Maybe they need their toys guarded by competent authority.

We must accommodate the idiocracy.

Henry Haphorn
Killer Yankee
#17 - 2011-12-06 23:36:06 UTC
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).

Adapt or Die

Serene Repose
#18 - 2011-12-06 23:37:13 UTC  |  Edited by: Serene Repose
Henry Haphorn wrote:
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).

EVE is the internet. Government access to the internet is access to you, unless you found some magical way to post this without using it...maybe you willed it onto the server...interesting...

We must accommodate the idiocracy.

Jada Maroo
Native Freshfood
Minmatar Republic
#19 - 2011-12-06 23:44:50 UTC
Serene Repose wrote:
Hilarious. WE have an election coming up. Dump the Reps and this sort of buggaboo disappears along with them.


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

Change you can believe in!
Serene Repose
#20 - 2011-12-06 23:48:46 UTC
Jada Maroo wrote:
Serene Repose wrote:
Hilarious. WE have an election coming up. Dump the Reps and this sort of buggaboo disappears along with them.


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

Change you can believe in!

Don't confuse me with facts. My mind's made up!

We must accommodate the idiocracy.

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