Sopa

[konatist]

did the sopa blackout affect any of you? and did it really achive anything

[cablefreejunkie]

i heard about what the yanks were planning for the internet many years ago,,most people said your paranoid and it can never be censored etc,but look whats happening now
another curtailment of freedom by the land of the free
you have to laugh at the sheer front of these *****s
and they wont stop there

[Grizz]

they can censor all they want, ppl will find a way around it if they want to. it just makes them look bad. maybe the more rights that are taken from the masses, the sooner they will realise that they are anything but free.

[patkins]

Their legislation is affecting people worldwide.
That should be challenged.
More disturbing is the recent legislation, pushed through in the dormant Christmas period, Christmas Eve to be exact, whereby the US authorities can 'lift' someone off the street and incarcerate them indefinitely under a suspicion. And the sheeple are still taking off their shoes at customs.

[cablefreejunkie]

Their legislation is affecting people worldwide.
That should be challenged.
More disturbing is the recent legislation, pushed through in the dormant Christmas period, Christmas Eve to be exact, whereby the US authorities can 'lift' someone off the street and incarcerate them indefinitely under a suspicion. And the sheeple are still taking off their shoes at customs.

tbh that dosent suprise me one little bit,i mean the patriot act was ushered in post 911 when the world was not watching politricks,,i think most folk dont want to think anything is happening let alone try and comprehend it,
,ignorance is bliss

[cablefreejunkie]

they can censor all they want, ppl will find a way around it if they want to. it just makes them look bad. maybe the more rights that are taken from the masses, the sooner they will realise that they are anything but free.

i watched an interview with a member of the public after the london bombings,,she said she did not mind giving up freedom for liberty !!!!!!! i kid you not,thats what youre dealing with,,and that is all about the way its sold to the masses

[scooby5555]

Watch this - PROTECT IP / SOPA Breaks The Internet on Vimeo (http://vimeo.com/31100268)

Blackouts - Yes it achieved awareness, and thats all it was meant to achieve, the US b****** Govt are not content enough with invading all these countries and putting their own puppet Governments but they want to invade Cyberspace and control that too, nothing to do with Piracy blah blah, just a control tool. But boy are they in for a fight, another Cyber Afghanistan and in the end the victory will be ours, people will just move more underground SSL, servers located outside the U.S, wont go down too well with the hacker community who will no doubt launch their own attacks against the Corporations that push these bills through. U.S is already a Police state and if it wasnt for the media i:e that TV set justifying everything through the news the sheeple would see it.

[aleister crowley]

SOPA has been stopped dead in its tracks by the Senate but they are now trying to push PIPA through.

PIPA is basically SOPA with subtle differences. Same broom...different head!!

PIPA, if passed, will give U.S. corporations and the government the right to seek affirmative legal action with any website that they see as enabling copyright infringement whether of U.S. origin or not. Here is a breakdown of all that they will have the power to do.


Force U.S. internet providers to block access to websites deemed as enablers of copyright infringement
Seek legal action by suing search engines, blog sites, directories, or any site in general to have the black listed sites removed from their website
Will be able to force advertising services on infringing websites, and those supporting of them, to remove them from their advertising accounts
Companies will also have the power to sue any new websites that get started after this bill is passed, if they believe that they are not doing a good job of preventing infringement on your website

[aleister crowley]

This is funny though and true

http://i44.tinypic.com/2ica6vr.jpg

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