United States Censorship Bills SOPA PIPA ACTA

[gezegond]

remaining in the bill would be provisions allowing the DOJ to seek court orders requiring search engines to remove links to sites accused of infringement

IMO the only effect this would have is that people will stop using censored american search engines and use some other search engine. (I'm looking at you, baidu.)

and requiring online advertising networks and payment processors to stop doing business with the accused sites.

And this will probably only put american business in jeopardy since people will start using other payment services...

[lizard81288]

IMO the only effect this would have is that people will stop using censored american search engines and use some other search engine. (I'm looking at you, baidu.)And this will probably only put american business in jeopardy since people will start using other payment services...

That was actually said by a congressman against the bill. It would kill American jobs.

[Bennieboi20]

just a query, is emuparadise taking part in the black out on wednesday? i know its not brilliant for busineses but if we do it will make everyone who tries to access the website aware of whats going to happen,by following in reddit and other sites footsteps we can also play our part in making people aware of what sopa is going to do, this is a free plugin from wordpress which will allow you to activate the times you wish to participate to and from it basically just sends out a 503 error and displays information about sopa. i will be forwarding this information to MasJ or if anyone here has a direct contact link then your also welcome to forward this information

MAJOR EDIT:
It would seem that congress have suspended the bill vote indefinatly check this link for details

EDIT 2:
so theres all this talk about SOPA but what about the other 2 bills that havent been suspended, PIPA and ACTA, ACTA is a secret bill which the whitehouse will not disclose the text of but from what we know it is an organisational body outside of the already established WTO these bills will be just as devestating as SOPA, so please do not give up your support against freedom

[lizard81288]

I didn't know there was a blackout Wednesday. Thanks for the heads up. Now that it seems SOPA is down (maybe not for the count, but down) I hope People will say things about the other bills. I didn't even know about ACTA

[Nick Naim]

I didn't know there was a blackout Wednesday. Thanks for the heads up. Now that it seems SOPA is down (maybe not for the count, but down) I hope People will say things about the other bills. I didn't even know about ACTA

There are potentially an endless amount of bills with the same policies as SOPA that lobbyists will continue to try and pass. It seems that only opposing corporate interests have any hope of stopping them. I think people are naive if they think public opinion petitions stopped SOPA. It's just too bad no big industry thought they'd lose money by repealing liberty with NDAA.

[Supreme Warrior]

http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/pol...helf034765.php

[Tsukasa01]

"Government of the people" yeah right more like government of the corporate interest.

[Rok124]

I Swear the United States is going though a civil war between the people and their rights against the corporate businesses and the Government


This will be the end of this country

[Combusto Dragon]

avtually, there's a good news for you SOPA haters as i am..

http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology...cy-legislation

[treos]

lol tomorrow will prove quite interesting, seems several thousand big website, 2 of which are wikipedia and wikilinks will be going dark (i'm actually not entirely sure what that implies atm but i'm assuming its cutting off access to the sites) tomorrow in protest of the 2 censorship bills. wonder what kind of situation the government will face when that happens. i don't think i've ever heard of such a large scale protest happening on the internet before but if nothing else then i'm looking foward to the reactions this'll get.

[TheRealSpiders]

Well it's roughly 12AM her on the East coast, Wiki is down and Google has censored it's logo, I'm assuming a bunch of other sites are doing the same, I wonder what kind of impact (if any) this will have on SOPA and PIPA?

[gezegond]

Well it's roughly 12AM her on the East coast, Wiki is down and Google has censored it's logo, I'm assuming a bunch of other sites are doing the same, I wonder what kind of impact (if any) this will have on SOPA and PIPA?

Hmm, it seems the wikipedia block uses a script to show to the block page over the page you requested, so you can probably access the articles using noscript if you urgently need to.

[Knightshade]

Hmm, it seems the wikipedia block uses a script to show to the block page over the page you requested, so you can probably access the articles using noscript if you urgently need to.

I have both No script and adblock + and with No script you can view wiki articles by blocking WikiMedia this disables the overlay if anyone needs to use wiki.

also I must spread some reputation around it seems

[Bennieboi20]

yeah i figured that out while i was at work today, our proxy server disables pop ups and javascript on a majorty of websites so when i got home i tested it out and it worked with no script plus adblock lol i cant see the google censor though since im not in the US

[skullpoker]

I can get wiki pages by pressing Esc to stop the page loading before the redirect.