American bill will allow the government to censor Internet domains.

[londelen]

And let the "AAAHHHHHH WE'RE TURNING INTO A DICTATORSHIP GAME OVER MAN GAME OVER!!!" comments flow in...

But seriously, there are retarded proposals like this all the damn time(Does anyone remember ACTA?)And all of them are swatted down like an annoying flies.

This one won't be any different.

Except that this one has a billion co-sponsors. 50 bucks says this passes senate and house.

 

[Blunderman]

They are enforcing copywrite law, that's a good thing.

This isn't censoring of ideas as was suggested in the OP.

The internet should not be a place for lawlessness.

Copyright law needs to adapt to the current state of the world, not the other way around. The internet has changed so very many things and it's absurd to think that you could ever control it. Any attempt at censoring the internet on a national or international level will be met by a massive amount of skilled people instantly coming up with hacks or fixes to undo the censorship through any and all means possible. Then there'll be covert ISPs and before you know it, the world will be like taken straight out of Johnny Mnemonic. Governments have better things to do than fighting gravity.

What Rosa Parks did was also considered lawlessness. The law needs to evolve. A good first step would be to completely kill the wage standards for Hollywood actors. Think of how cheap DVDs could be if they didn't pay their lead actor $40 million.

Edit: Also, it's not surprising that this is happening in the US. The statue of liberty used to say "Give me your tired, your poor..." but now it says "If you're not a citizen, keep out".

 

[Littlee300]

what happened to the ''we all own the internet'' thing?

Well we did invent it...
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Well unless god proves that when you die you get a god damn paradise I am not going full on rebellion (It would be fun...) *look up* any second now...

 

[Criquefreak]

Good luck with that censoring the internet thing.

Whoever suggested this has got to be out of their gourd. The amount of work hours something like this would take would break the media companies. Now, if they were talking about zoning the internet better, such as getting more than just the .com, .org, .net, .gov, etc maybe they'd have a better chance at creating some kind of filtering system for the stuff that people don't want to be seeing, but prohibition-style censorship would fail in epic proportions.

Plus the fact that they wouldn't be able to touch the out of country stuff. Are they trying to drive a large number of peoples' entertainment dollar out of the US? Are they also trying to drive internet media jobs clean out of country? Only someone with a complete lack of common sense (or a lot of corrupt income) would support something this assinine. Plus, I highly doubt YouTube's less original users are putting any kind of a dent in the profit margin or good name of any publisher.

 

[Littlee300]

The only thing that should be removed is shamelessly stolen stuff without giving credit, things that mess with your computer without your permission, and things that are straight up lying (That aren't user based)

 

[archvile93]

This will go nowhere. Even if by some unholy intervention it gets passed. It will quickly be removed for being unconstitutional.

 

[demoman_chaos]

Here's how it will play out: if a bill passes and a site gets shut down, the site can bring the federal government to court, citing an infringement of the first amendment. With any luck, the appeals will go all the way to the Supreme Court. The Supreme Court has the power and authority to *****-slap COICA and any bill like it into non-existence if they rule it as unConstitutional. We still have a system of checks and balances. It might be difficult to hold Congress accountable, but it's not impossible.

For a bill to become law, the Pres must sign it and the Supreme Court must rule it constitutional or not. If this becomes law, they will have already thought it was constitutional. They passed the Patriot Act (which takes away the 4th amendment (illegal search and seizure) for those deemed as "terrorists"), so I have no doubt this will be passed. If it increases their power, they will deem it what they have to deem it to get it in place.

 

[Saucycarpdog]

and you think an internet petition is going to make a difference?

When has an internet petition ever made a difference? These people don't give a damn about what you or anyone else says. They get paid a fat salary out of our tax dollars and whatever the lobbyists line their pockets with, they're going to do whatever they want since it doesn't matter to them. A life of no consequence. They get paid today, they get paid tomorrow, and they'll get paid after they're out of office.

The US isn't turning into Oceania, it already IS Oceania. Just because it's missing the giant two-way video screens with Big Brother doesn't make it any less real. THis bill will pass, I'd bet my life on it.

This bill probably won't pass because all you need is for the public to know about it. Then rights activists and news media and even sites like this will cry for this bill to be put to death.

An online petition may not stop it, but the double standard american way of freedom of rights will.