Government Plans to Fire Critical Salvo in the War on Internet Freedom!!!

[BuddyRey]

This just in from the Demonoid homepage:

In the United States, a new law proposal called The Combating Online Infringement and Counterfeits Act (COICA) was introduced last week, and there will be a hearing in front of the Judiciary Committee this Thursday.

If passed, this law will allow the government, under the command of the media companies, to censor the internet as they see fit, like China and Iran do, with the difference that the sites they decide to censor will be completely removed from the internet and not just in the US.

Please see the following article from The Huffington Post for more information.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-segal/stop-the-internet-blackli_b_739836.html

And if you are a US citizen, please take the time to sign this petition.

http://demandprogress.org/blacklist/

Update: Also for US citizens, you can email your Senator from the following link and tell him or her your concerns about this bill

https://secure.eff.org/site/Advocacy?cmd=display&page=UserAction&id=455

[tangent4ronpaul]

UGH!!!!! :mad:

[BuddyRey]

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[Noob]

This just in from the Demonoid homepage:

In the United States, a new law proposal called The Combating Online Infringement and Counterfeits Act (COICA) was introduced last week, and there will be a hearing in front of the Judiciary Committee this Thursday.

If passed, this law will allow the government, under the command of the media companies, to censor the internet as they see fit, like China and Iran do, with the difference that the sites they decide to censor will be completely removed from the internet and not just in the US.

Please see the following article from The Huffington Post for more information.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-segal/stop-the-internet-blackli_b_739836.html

And if you are a US citizen, please take the time to sign this petition.

http://demandprogress.org/blacklist/

Update: Also for US citizens, you can email your Senator from the following link and tell him or her your concerns about this bill

https://secure.eff.org/site/Advocacy?cmd=display&page=UserAction&id=455


Here is EFF old message.



I am a constituent, and I strongly urge you to reject S. 3804, the "Combating Online Infringement and Counterfeits Act" (COICA).

The bill's provisions -- ostensibly aimed at copyright infringement online -- interfere with basic Internet infrastructure in a way that (a) ensures the undue censorship of free speech online, (b) creates a climate of fear and uncertainty for innovative, law abiding websites, (c) risks splitting the technical infrastructure critical to the functioning of the Internet, and (d) sends repressive regimes throughout the world the message that unilateral censorship of the Internet is acceptable.

For a bill this controversial and severe, there must be hearings so Congress and the American public can obtain a thorough accounting of the true costs and benefits. I urge you to reject S. 3804, the "Combating Online Infringement and Counterfeits Act," should it be presented for a vote or unanimous consent, and to encourage your colleagues to hold hearings to better understand the myriad implications of the bill.

Reject the entertainment industry's outrageous Internet censorship bill that would blacklist websites, interfere with the Internet's domain name system (DNS), and legitimize unilateral Internet censorship worldwide.

In the name of fighting copyright infringement, the "Combating Online Infringement and Counterfeits Act" (COICA) would put in place dangerous, overbroad procedures that would take huge numbers of law-abiding websites offline, censor speech and curtail Internet freedom worldwide.

The bill would allow the Attorney General and the Department of Justice to break the Internet one domain at a time — by requiring ISPs, domain registrars, DNS providers, and others to block Internet users from reaching certain websites. Chillingly, the bill also allows the Justice Department to create a blacklist of sites "dedicated to infringing activities" that ISPs and others will be encouraged to block.

And there is a serious danger that COICA could damage Internet freedom worldwide. In the past, the United States has tried to convince other countries to respect citizens' fundamental right to free speech. But with this bill, the United States risks telling countries throughout the world, "Unilateral censorship of websites that the government doesn't like is okay — and this is how you do it."

Reject S. 3804, the "Combating Online Infringement and Counterfeits Act,"

[cindy25]

I think-and hope-they are out of time.

if there is no House bill then anything done in the senate is a waste of time.

and passing this in both houses, then bi-cam, then pass again.

the clock has nearly run out