My stand is that these measures MUST be stopped, and any company or legislator supporting these measures, I am working against by boycotting / voting.
Thursday, January 19, 2012
Tuesday, December 27, 2011
CREATING BLACKLISTS OF WEBSITES (FROM Venitism.blogspot.com )
http://venitism.blogspot.com/2011/12/creating-blacklists-of-websites.html
"Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) points out the Stop Online Piracy Act
(SOPA) and the Protect IP Act (PIPA) are the House and Senate version of a
proposed law that would allow the U.S. Attorney General to create blacklists of
websites to censor, cut off from funding, or remove from search engine indexes.
Although the current bills are reworked versions of legislation proposed in 2010
(the Combating Online Infringement and Counterfeits Act, or COICA), 2011 has
been a true milestone in the fight against them.
SOPA and PIPA will bring blood libel to cyberspace. Accusing dissident bloggers
of treason, Graecokleptocrats have manufactured a blood libel in cyberspace,
which in turn incites hatred and violence. The freakish kangaroo justice
government of Greece, is the only government on Earth which steals the computers
of its citizens! Infamous CCU is the brutal arm of the kangaroo government of
Greece, which terrorizes the cyberspace, stealing computers and files at
gunpoint, perjuring, jailing dissident bloggers, and gagging the truth. The
Greek Cyber Crime Unit (CCU) is the most disgusting gang in Fourth Reich."
"Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) points out the Stop Online Piracy Act
(SOPA) and the Protect IP Act (PIPA) are the House and Senate version of a
proposed law that would allow the U.S. Attorney General to create blacklists of
websites to censor, cut off from funding, or remove from search engine indexes.
Although the current bills are reworked versions of legislation proposed in 2010
(the Combating Online Infringement and Counterfeits Act, or COICA), 2011 has
been a true milestone in the fight against them.
SOPA and PIPA will bring blood libel to cyberspace. Accusing dissident bloggers
of treason, Graecokleptocrats have manufactured a blood libel in cyberspace,
which in turn incites hatred and violence. The freakish kangaroo justice
government of Greece, is the only government on Earth which steals the computers
of its citizens! Infamous CCU is the brutal arm of the kangaroo government of
Greece, which terrorizes the cyberspace, stealing computers and files at
gunpoint, perjuring, jailing dissident bloggers, and gagging the truth. The
Greek Cyber Crime Unit (CCU) is the most disgusting gang in Fourth Reich."
Why Scribd Joined the SOPA Protest
http://idealab.talkingpointsmemo.com/2011/12/why-scribd-joined-the-sopa-protest.php "
Scribd is a four-year-old website that allows users to post, share and download documents in Word, PDF or text form. The site is phenomenally useful for journalism, and TPM has routinely relied on it to post a variety of documents.
But on Wednesday, we, and Scribd’s 75 million other monthly readers, were greeted by mysteriously disappearing text on documents we tried to read and an alarming message: “Congress is pushing through legislation that threatens the future of the Internet. With this legislation in place, entire domains like Scribd could simply vanish from the Web. Call or write your Representative or Senator to STOP SOPA and PIPA.”
Scribd pointed out in a separate release that “over a billion pages and nearly half a trillion words could simply disappear,” due to the legislation."
SOPA bans Tor, the US Navy's censorship-busting technology
http://boingboing.net/2011/12/22/sopa-bans-tor-the-us-navys.html
"Tor, the censorship-busting technology developed by the US Navy and promoted by the State Department as part of the solution to allowing for free communications in repressive regimes, is likely illegal technology under the Stop Online Piracy Act. SOPA makes provision for punishing Americans who contribute expertise to projects that can be used to defeat its censorship regime, and Tor fits the bill.
"Tor, the censorship-busting technology developed by the US Navy and promoted by the State Department as part of the solution to allowing for free communications in repressive regimes, is likely illegal technology under the Stop Online Piracy Act. SOPA makes provision for punishing Americans who contribute expertise to projects that can be used to defeat its censorship regime, and Tor fits the bill.
"I worry that it is vague enough, and the intention to prevent tunneling around court-ordered restrictions clear enough, that courts will bend over backwards to find a violation," says Mark Lemley, a professor at Stanford Law School who specializes in intellectual property law.Smith's anti-circumvention language appears designed to target software such as MAFIAAFire, the Firefox add-on that bypassed domain seizures, and ThePirateBay Dancing and Tamer Rizk's DeSOPA add-ons, which take a similar approach. (As CNET reported in May, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security has tried, unsuccessfully so far, to remove MAFIAAFire from the Web.)But Smith worded SOPA broadly enough that the anti-circumvention language isn't limited to Firefox add-ons. In an echo of the 1998 Digital Millennium Copyright Act's anti-circumvention section, SOPA targets anyone who "knowingly and willfully provides or offers to provide a product or service designed or marketed by such entity...for the circumvention or bypassing" of a Justice Department-erected blockade."
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