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snot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-14-11 11:04 AM
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Internet BLACKLIST Bill: Worse than Ever -- Pls Help!
Edited on Sat May-14-11 11:05 AM by snot
From DemandProgress:

Members of Congress and their business allies were gearing up to pass a revised Internet Blacklist Bill . . . . Last year's bill has been renamed the "PROTECT IP" Act and it is far worse than its predecessor.

Senators Leahy and Hatch pretended to weigh free speech concerns as they revised the bill. Instead, the new legislation would institute a China-like censorship regime in the United States, whereby the Department of Justice could force search engines, browsers, and service providers to block users' access to websites, and scrub the American Internet clean of any trace of their existence.
. . . . .

Furthermore, it wouldn't just be the Attorney General who could add sites to the blacklist, but the new bill would allow any copyright holder to get sites blacklisted -- sure to result in an explosion of dubious and confused orders.

(Emphasis added.) More at http://act.demandprogress.org/cms/thanks/protectip_docs?action_id=1447746&akid=.4208.xRfjND&form_name=act&rd=1&taf=1 .

News about this bill has been posted before but apparently sank before many people noticed it. If you care about free speech online, pls rec this, sign the petition, tell your friends, etc.
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ejpoeta Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-14-11 11:08 AM
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1. this is ridiculous. just another way to control the internet to their own benefit.
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Mnemosyne Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-14-11 11:32 AM
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2. Hey snot, link is to a thank you page, not the petition. Having a hard time finding it for some
reason. I may have already signed, but would like to check.

Thanks!
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DemReadingDU Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-14-11 11:57 AM
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3. I think this may be the link
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Mnemosyne Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-15-11 01:47 AM
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8. That was it, DemRDU. Thank you kindly. Hadn't signed that one. n/t
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snot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-15-11 09:55 AM
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12. Thanks, DemRdgDU; that's it. Sorry for the mix-up.
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Smarmie Doofus Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-14-11 11:58 AM
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4. Kick. I know nothing about this but want to read it later.
You get to be my teacher.
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nashville_brook Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-14-11 02:22 PM
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5. k and r
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FLAprogressive Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-14-11 02:24 PM
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6. Holy crap that's messed up....but what a surprise, both parties working together to fuck us over.
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onestepforward Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-14-11 02:29 PM
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7. Signed. n/t
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JCMach1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-15-11 02:50 AM
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9. The net needs an initiative to put the net beyond governance in terms of the technology...
... Something that goes beyond mirrored name servers and onion routers...
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Agony Donating Member (865 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-15-11 07:10 AM
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10. Kick nt
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barbtries Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-15-11 07:17 AM
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11. will do.
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Mnemosyne Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-15-11 11:37 PM
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13. Needs much more visibility!
:kick:
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Odin2005 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-15-11 11:38 PM
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14. This BS is ripe for abuse, which I expect is the whole point.
:grr:
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