American bill will allow the government to censor Internet domains.
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Here's to the People's Republic of America! Seriously, someone needs to go all Fallout 3 on DC---the Capitol building would be greatly improved by the presence of super mutants and Chaotic Evil mercenaries in silly looking combat armor as opposed to Congressmen.
all I can say is its probably better for them to shut down the torrent sites and take them off line than lynch mobbing everyone who has taken stuff for free in the time it has taken them to react. People have been downloading since napster opened in 1999. They want to think about jailing and suing that many people it would be quite asinine.
I doubt this is going to happen tbh. It must be illegal, what with it censoring stuff in other countries as well.
Uh, ACTA didn't go away. They're still finalizing the treaty and according to the most recent update, were shooting for ratification on the 30th. Tomorrow.Ham_authority95 said:
This bill passing into law would be the US obeying ACTA.
Funny how the First Amendment can be overridden by extremely flexible definitions of "obscenity". I can understand the government's laws to keep us from killing and exploiting each other, but I absolutely don't need them to tell me what I can't say, hear, create or read. Or smoke. Also, I'm not looking forward to hearing the aggressively flaunted "Land of Liberty"-type phrases returning in full volume with ironic undertones, because I've already heard them so many times that they make me sick.
Our politicians insist that we live in the "freest" country in the world as a means of pacification; whenever they take away our rights, they always default to "it's in the interest of the children, and hey, at least we're not China." Motherfuckers.
Our politicians insist that we live in the "freest" country in the world as a means of pacification; whenever they take away our rights, they always default to "it's in the interest of the children, and hey, at least we're not China." Motherfuckers.
thats not the point. the point is these bills actually make it onto the judiciary committees plate. this shoudnt even have made it on paper before someone actually thought 'hey this might be illegal'.Ham_authority95 said:
Sneaky ninja!joemegson94 said:
Not that I'm american, but you'd think that america would be the first place that would allow people to say and do whatever they want on the internet. Obviously not. This is just another attempt by america to continue policing the world they think they own.
Worse case scenario though sites move abroad and set up shop elsewhere. They wouldn't be visible in the us of course, but at least the rest of the world could see them again. I foresee quite a lot of servers being shut down and taking their business elsewhere when this happens then.
I also find this particularly funny considering that debate a while back about whether or not the internet should be considered a human right. Apparantly america decided not to get on board with that idea then.
Just wait till the pirates fight back. Eventually we'll have to pick sides, I pick the side of the pirates, the side of he free, the side with eye patches and parrots.
OT: So American government is no every organisation with a lot of money's ***** yeah? Sounds right to me. The pirates will just get servers in other, more free than America, countries.
OT: So American government is no every organisation with a lot of money's ***** yeah? Sounds right to me. The pirates will just get servers in other, more free than America, countries.
