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Never trust the Government on privacy issues.They will most certainly lie and distort their views. The goal here is to protect big business,limit freedom of expression and spy on people.

So either DO something about it or just take it!

hey don’t worry about it we will still have tv news to keep us well informed.
after all who want all that nagging and whining from those internet geeks about war crimes and genocide. i want to know who the candidates think will win the american idol

This will get passed. If the “Patriot” Act could get railroaded through, then another law that rapes our First Amendment rights will have no problem. I mean, it’s only one this time, not four, we should consider ourselves lucky.

They will be able to revise history as they want,brainwash as they please, and prosecute those that disagree with them but don’t worry those who take to them will prosper. We need the evil to be evil,the thief to be a thief,the good to be the good, and the internet to be the internet .let these people expose themselves for who they really are and no one does that better than the internet.

The lame duck Congress won’t let Bush tax cuts expire, but can pass this intrusive bit o’legislation? The Corporate Idiocracy doesn’t work for you, my friends.

“Will Internet censorship bill be pushed through lame-duck Congress?”

Yes!! A thousand quadrillion gazillion times yes!
Along with the FOOD SAFETY BILL which virtually outlaws organic farming and deifies Monsanto.

Boy, it sure is great to know that the Democrats get to do it. It will prove to their corporate betters that they are just as cool as the Republicans, maybe even better. Except for Ron Paul — if he gets to audit the Federal Reserve.

It ain’t going to be a happy new year, folks. Obama et al will be going rogue. What’s to lose; they already probably lost 2012, even if they give us a false flag or go to war with Iran. The only way to survive the coming storm is to localize and grow your own food, and pray that Raw Story survives the coming internet battle.
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great idea!
i say we boycott the internets!
i’ll start a face book page and you go to my space and we’ll see how many people we can get on our group

Then we should persuade Obama to back the bill. If he’s for it, every single Republican will be against it automatically, plus whatever Democrats also fear Blacks, then there will be enough votes to kill it.

It doesn’t matter what the people say, the government has the kill switch even thought the root servers are independently overseen. They can kill phone service and/cell in the blink of an eye if they wanted too. Whose trying to blow smoke up whose ass?

The top level of the file sharing pyramid, the place files are posted before they reach torrent and hosting sites, is not on the WWW. (It is a old net, and has Fight Club-type rules, so I am not going to post the name.)

Anyway, this bill will not even affect the WWW-based search engines that find files on it (like Google) as they do not host the files, they only operate as a directory.

What I am saying is this is proof that the point of this bill is censoring something other than copyrighted material, if that was the point they would have language to go after the central file-sharing network.

Is this their way of keeping the lid on all those cancer clusters soon to be popping up across the country thanks to the airport nude scanners? just blacklist the websites before they go viral?

I blame the Republicrats from Nixon on and Clinton was nothing but a Republicrat in sheep’s clothing as is Obama. But notice as the so-called liberals get closer to mainstream the Republicrats get further right (think GW Bush). And seriously how many people bought his book? I mean he was full of crap while he was our President you think this books going to make him honest?

Corrupt criminals demand protection from web exposure.

Controlled Media Liars
Federal Reserve Liars
AIPAC Liars
9/11 Liars

Pass the petition on the site against this bill along, guys!
It ain’t much but it’s worth a shot.

All the intellectual property laws (copyright, trademark, patent) have been subverted from their original purpose. They no longer protect creative individuals; they protect corporations.

Oh yeah that’s gonna pass. Things that enhance the profit/power and control of our overlords always enjoy bipartisan or even unanimous support in the halls of congress. It’s just the things that benefit the 99% rather than the richest 1% that never make it.

God, I hate politicians!!!

THE NEXT TIME I WIPE, I WILL SEND YOU AN EMAIL AND LET YOU KNOW HOW MANY SHEETS I USED, OPS, I FORGOT YOU WILL ALREADY KNOW HUH., GET A LIFE.

OK, so now click on the link to the petition and share it via Facebook, Twitter, whatever.

This will never fly under free speech laws. Guaranteed.

This is ABSOLUTELY outrageous.. when China and Saudi Arabia do it!

When we do it, not so much.

Uh, there’s already censorship on the internet. Just go to Huffington Post and comment on religion.

I don’t care what political party you’re a part of, the internet will fucking turn on every single politician that has the balls to pass such a bill.

I comment on the religion section all the time of there (for fun)
you’re being paranoid, the moderators there have a poblem with everyone on every section.

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I comment on a certain pedophile pope all the time. It never gets posted.

Question: How do I know he’s a pedophile?

Answer: He was a priest.

And what lawyers determine who is infringing on copyright? It’s one thing to pull materials down, or send a cease and desist to a webmaster, it’s another thing to pull a website down, to shut a business down without due process. Many websites, especially news websites might be considered guilty of infringement. Even Fox News… Every time Fox News shows another news agency’s clip of an interview or such.. that could be considered infringement, although it falls under ‘fair use”

This is a very messy bill that will hurt both Dems and Republicans..

Out of all the bills we could use to create jobs or improve quality of life, this is the Bill they want to push through? And they wonder why young people don’t get out the vote.

And those dumb politicians wonder why they don’t get re-elected or why young people didn’t vote in the mid-terms. What Bill are they trying to pass that any young person would be interested in?

“We’re going to criminalize your internet” is not the kind of $%## young people want to hear during a jobless recovery and almost 10% unemployment.

I guess this is for fighting terrorists too….

Yes it will. Everything in the name of terrorism. Our freedoms once gone will not be back. And danger to the country will always be the excuse for shredding freedoms. And the irony is we will always be in danger. Like every other country in the world. As been so often said, when a country is in danger or at war, that is the time when their freedoms should be held onto even tighter. You do not give away what you are supposed to be protecting.

And we will never get them back. There will always be a government to tell us, not yet. And just whose judgment will prevail? Where is the cut off point? When is enough, enough? This internet is now, emails, telephone, mail. All of it, all the privacy we take for granted is nearly gone. And the government simply cannot stand this last shred of privacy. If they don’t own it, the corporations will. Then they will decide just what information gets online. And by then it will be too late. WE will continue to read and see just what the corporations want us to see and know.

And our jackass of a president will sign it.

thanks to the Right, America is owned lock, stock and barely by the corporations. WTG ya dumb fuck TeaBaggers. Enjoy dying off as they take your Medicare and Social Security. i guess that’s the silver lining to it all.

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Lemme ‘splain something to you Lucy….

Us conservatives aren’t against “net neutrality” in the sense that we are against the net being an unbiased and open forum for all content.

Truth is we looked at the legislation and found that it wasn’t about freedom at all, it was about expanding FCC control of what we see as a fundamentally free-market driven system. The best legislation to protect the net is NO legislation.

We want unfettered access to the net for everybody but we’re confident in the market’s ability to deliver. Every time some major corporate interest has tried to dominate the net, their version has been rankly boring. Nobody bought into it, we bought around it. What more FCC control does is prevent us from creating a new internet, a true open-source thing in the future when the control creeps finally get their way.

It’s a violation of fair use rights. If it passes, say goodbye to the interwebs.

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Here at World Spinner we are debating the same thing……

Here’s the bill: http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c111:S.3804:

The bill is sponsored by two Republicans (Hatch and Voinovich), neither of whom are far-right, and seven Democrats- Leahy, Klobuchar, Whitehouse, Schumer, Kohl, Specter, Durbin, Feinstein, and the retiring Bayh. Yes, many of the Democrats are considered “moderates” as well, like Bayh and Specter, but not all.

The previous version of the bill in 2008 (http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-10050080-38.html?tag=mncol;txt) passed out of committee 14-4, with all 4 votes against coming from right-wing Republicans like Cornyn of Texas. It only failed to become law because GWB threatened to veto it.

Part of the reason that the supporters are trying to ram it through in the lame-duck Congress is that they’re afraid (but don’t know for sure) that the GOP may actually be less friendly to this bill than the current Democratic Congress. Otherwise the MPAA, RIAA, et al. would just wait until the after the new Congress was seated.

But go ahead and keep blaming it on Republicans.

Consider that Bush threatened to veto the 2008 version of this bill (http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-10050080-38.html?tag=mncol;txt), and that all four votes in committee against the 2008 bill were Republicans (http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-10039745-38.html)- John Kyl of Arizona, Jeff Sessions of Alabama, Sam Brownback of Kansas, and Tom Coburn of Oklahoma, right-wingers all.

So perhaps you should redirect your anger.

“I don’t care what political party you’re a part of, the internet will fucking turn on every single politician that has the balls to pass such a bill.”

No it won’t. Democratic Party supporters will still support Democratic Senators who vote for it, reasoning that the Republicans would be even worse, and vice versa for Republican loyalists.

I mean, come on, how many people here would vote for Republicans just because Bush threatened to veto the similar bill in 2008 (http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-10050080-38.html?tag=mncol;txt) or because all four commitee votes against the similar bill in 2008 were Republicans (http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-10039745-38.html)?

Practically none. Not that I don’t understand your reasoning, but as long as that’s true, politicians like Feinstein and Kohl and Schumer and Leahy and Whitehouse and Klobuchar can feel free to vote for this without the slightest repercussion.

If it’s so “thanks to the Right,” why are all the votes against this (http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-10039745-38.html) coming from the Right?

Hopefully President Obama will threaten to veto this bill the way that GW Bush did. (http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-10050080-38.html?tag=mncol;txt)

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Oh, well. Just another nail in the coffin. We’re pretty much sealed in our casket anyway (we even offered to do half the nailing ourselves), this is nothing but a leaky draft to the monied plutocrats with all the power.

The Internet won’t fight back. 90% of the internet is nothing but the establishment and apathetic populous. The 10% that aren’t are 4chan trolls that will just be all like “not your personal army lolol” and then go dump kiddy porn on a children’s game site because that’s more entertaining to them than saving free speech.

don’t interrupt them!

I enjoy reading their stupidity

just like expanding black privilege and turning a blind eye to black racism is fighting racism

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we need to stop Guvmint intervention at ALL levels, especially where it concerns the Internet. This is one more example of the Yahoos trying to control everything and I mean EVERYTHING.

Yet another police at work messing with people’s lives. Give me a break already…

You show your profound ignorance when you use ugly language. Try to increase your vocabulary.

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thanks to the Right, America is owned lock, stock and barely by the corporations.

Yeah because no one on the left is lobbied and bought by corporations. Are you blind or just plain stupid?

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Come on add another line to your FBI file and sign the petition!

Corporate-driven legislators

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You are aware that this is the baby of Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-VT). A DEMOCRAT. Blind partisanship will only hasten our demise

This is being done by a democratic congress and a democratic president if it is signed into law. Still think the left has a voice in congress anymore? Still think the republicans give a shit about the constitution? They could stop it and so could the liberal dems. FILIBUSTER THIS EVIL BILL

Reasons 9/11 happened: Either it was truly by terrorists from another country and our gov had nothing to do with it and was just completely incompetent to stop it OR It was our gov and it gave them the excuse to A go to war and spend trillions of dollars and thousands of lives. B they can now just write off the constitution whenever they feel like it by saying its national security. We have our own terrorists in this country people, the people who scare us into believing we need to give up our rights to be safe and they just got a lot stronger this last election

This is so horrible, this is going to make the US into a freaking walled off society. I can’t believe that this is happening, this will destroy innovation coming out of the US in regard to IT and even research of other fields. Small online businesses will be hampered too, do you know that most of online bandwidth is porn. You may say so what, but what until you start to see DNS errors everytime you go to a site you used to like either here or overseas because somebody in govt. said that hosted copyright material. What they are setting up in a round about way is making it where americans will be limited to going to sites that are under a corporate umbrella and after that this coporate umbrella will be made into teirs of service. Essentially making the net in regard to the US into the television networks of today or the big brick businesses of today and yesterday. Where the decide what is right or wrong and have the govt. in pocket to do their bidding against any upstart trying to take them down via innovation.

The US is turning into a third world nation and eventually the sleeping masses will see the full extent of this. Our benefits will be cut, our taxes will be increased and the police and the federal and local govt. will do whatever they want. The rich and wealthy will live in guarded communities and the rest of us will be fighting for scraps that fall off the table. We are being cut out of the world because people are able to see news and information from other parts of the world that contradicts the news in the US.

We are slowly being put into a massive jail that will be called the US of A.

Buck, we’re already phuqued.
So just sit down shut up, and watch Bristol Palin on Whoring with the stars until you’re too fat and tired to get out of your chair.
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You are absolutely right, sir, thank you for writing comments like this. I have nothing to add, except that, ironically, it is the case that liberals have often proposed more harmful technological nanny legislation than Republicans. Republicans have always seemed more concerned with promoting militarization, torture and the police state. Copyright tyranny, surveillance and paternalism seem to be in the Democrat ballpark. Americans always get the worst of both worlds, oscillating in election cycles.

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How do we fight this?

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Comment not thoughtful, DT. It’s ideological and ideologues are closed minded people who see everything in us & them terms.

Your comment is a vivid example of the oppositional bias the monied elite like to see in the electorate. That bias precludes our being able to see reality and work together to take back our government from the criminals who have usurped it.

Sign the petition against it – http://demandprogress.org/blacklist/

The object of this bill, having purposely been written broad and vague in scope is to wreak havoc with free expression and access to information the government (take your pick of regimes) doesn’t currently like. If it passes, expect the net to be nothing but FOX all the time, anytime.
Culture will go straight down the toilet, as will what remains of education and any intellectual thought. My republican congressman and both US senators are ready to vote yea. I have written letters and made phone calls to their offices about this matter, only to be told that my representatives believe it is in the best interest of the country to redact, edit, eliminate all forms of free access to information that we are so used to being able to obtain through the NET. I am angry and deeply, profoundly disturbed by this. How, pray I ask, does this distinguish the USA from say China or Putin’s Russia or any other draconian regime that holds the thoughts and minds of its citizen hostage?

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The problem with this sort of legislation is exactly that if not worded very carefully and the intent of it in no uncertain terms deliniated it can and likely will be used for purely unsavory political purposes.

If you think this sucks:

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I’m so glad I’m leaving this country soon.

If you think fascism isn’t going to follow you overseas, you’re mistaken.

Europe’s next.

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Wow, kinda scary when you think about it.

http://www.online-privacy.edu.tc

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Kinda inevitable when you think about it. Did people really think that the internet would remain unregulated and uncensored indefinitely? The powers that be will succeed in turning the internet into television…watch and see. The intertnet is still very very young.

We could always create a new form of file sharing, and communication. There are plenty of people who have the technological prowess to do this. In fact, to not be at least somewhat technologically inclined is rare. If they pass this bill, something else will be created. People will always do what they want :).

We gave you television. Leave our internet alone, its the last free thing we have in this country.

Bills like #COICA will, if passed, only drive legitimate #socialmedia underground. Serious #socialmedia has already migrated there. @dredeyedick #censorship #wankers #openinternet

You don’t have a right to say whatever you like on someone else’s website; it’s theirs and they can institute their own rules.

You do (for now) have a right to say whatever you like on your own website, and nobody can keep you from having a website. That’s what’s at issue here.

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How does political power flow? Inevitably insurrection, civil disorders, revolutions will dot the landscape. In the end, people will be forced to fight these folks whether they like it or not.

1918
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I don’t know about that entirely. The Patriot Act flew didn’t it?

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It won’t pass Obama will veto it it’ll get shot down in courts. lawsuits will follow people will be killed. I promise that

Note: people being killed not a threat just saying.

I’m not surprised. About 15 years ago, I wrote an article stating that once the Internet poses a significant threat to the powers that be they will try to control it an dthis is what is happening now.

This comes as no surprise. 15 years ago I wrote in In.Tech that once the Internet poses a significant threat to the authorities they will try to control it

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I at least feel comforted knowing that there is no conceivable way to kill the internet completely. It would still thrive outside of the United States. The internet is more than a network of wires. It is a network of minds. The only way to kill the internet would be to kill every living thing. The internet will evolve as necessary. If this passes I will say: The internet is dead, LONG LIVE THE INTERNET!

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Nice site. Thanks so much, very informative and easy to understand.

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The companies that manage the sites on the internet allready censor. Such legislation would further suppress speech.

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[...] has some observers wondering whether the US really needs COICA, the anti-counterfeiting bill that passed through a Senate committee with unanimous approval last week. That bill would allow the federal government to block access to [...]

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Please grow up and see that we need some kind of censorship- and this has been put to Congress by the people requesting it! That is how the system works- remember? Did you learn any of this in school? Yes, there should be restrictions… but something has to be done to help control the hacking and abuse on the web!

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[...] entgegenzukommen. Derzeit berät der Senat über die Verabschiedung eines weiteren Gesetzes – COICA –, das »Gesetz gegen Online-Rechtsverletzungen und Fälschungen«, das der Regierung in Washington noch größere Befugnisse einräumte, Internetseiten zu sperren, [...]

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US Government Seizure of the Internet Has Begun; DHS Takes Over 76 Websites…

Source: Natural News – November 27, 2010 As part of a new expansion of government power over information, the Department of Homeland Security has begun seizing and shutting down internet websites (web domains) without due process or a proper trial. D…

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Here we go again. It happens to be a fact that criminals can easily acquire firearms – making most gun-control laws moot because only law-abiding citizens would bother filing the paperwork. In short, the laws go after the little fish, not the big fish. Now, law enforcement is seizing domains. The problem?

Most domains hosting or giving linkage to copyrighted material are hosted on offshore servers … many of which use dynamic hosting techniques (meaning their IP numbers can change from one minute to the next). So, the only domains they can “seize” are domestic domains registered and hosted here in the USA.

Can they “temporarily” block a domain? Sure … right up to the moment the IP number changes. Then, they have to find and block the new location … right up to the moment when the IP number changes again. It’s an electronic version of the “Whack-A-Mole” games you see at most carnivals (grin). Whack one mole and another one comes up.

Of course, it makes good press to say they’re fighting the evil pirates – not to mention justifying budgets to play a never-ending Whack-A-Mole game against them.

P.S. Regarding the “great Aussie firewall” blocking parts of WikiLeaks. Uhhh … do you know how many mirrors WikiLeaks has – all over the globe?

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This is bulls***. The COICA is allowing the U.S. Government too much freedom to use the powers listed within. And besides, we still have Frostwire and other P2P applications. They may have shut down the Limewire service, but the network it ran on is still up, allowing other P2P applications to run on it, thus making one wonder: Are they just using infringement as a cover, or are they just too stupid to understand how the Internet works? I personally don’t think that they’re doing this to prevent infringement at all. What are you really doing this for, Congress?

This is bulls***. The COICA is allowing the U.S. Government too much freedom to use the powers listed within. And besides, we still have Frostwire and other P2P applications. They may have shut down the Limewire service, but the network it ran on is still up, allowing other P2P applications to run on it, thus making one wonder: Are they just using infringement as a cover, or are they just too stupid to understand how the Internet works? I personally don’t think that they’re doing this to prevent infringement at all. What are you really doing this for, Congress?

I don’t think this is “feel-good legislation;” I think it is darker than that. Of course they have been planning ways to get the internet for a long time but this is, I think, an attempt to get Wikileaks. “Asange is both the reason for their wanting to take it over as well as an opportunity–he is getting our soldiers killed and putting other Americans and their friends at risk,” and other such self justifying nonsense. If you don’t want American soldiers killed get them out of places they don’t belong! It’s simple. JWC

I don’t think this is “feel-good legislation;” I think it is darker than that. Of course they have been planning ways to get the internet for a long time but this is, I think, an attempt to get Wikileaks. “Asange is both the reason for their wanting to take it over as well as an opportunity–he is getting our soldiers killed and putting other Americans and their friends at risk,” and other such self justifying nonsense. If you don’t want American soldiers killed get them out of places they don’t belong! It’s simple. JWC

I don’t think this is “feel-good legislation;” I think it is darker than that. Of course they have been planning ways to get the internet for a long time but this is, I think, an attempt to get Wikileaks. “Asange is both the reason for their wanting to take it over as well as an opportunity–he is getting our soldiers killed and putting other Americans and their friends at risk,” and other such self justifying nonsense. If you don’t want American soldiers killed get them out of places they don’t belong! It’s simple. JWC

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