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'Gasland' Journalists Arrested At Hearing By Order Of House Republicans

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EU signs ACTA, global internet censorship treaty

Today, the European Union and 22 member states signed the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA), Japan’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced. They have now joined the US and seven other nations that signed the treaty last October.

This signing ceremony merely formalized the EU’s adoption of ACTA last month, during a completely unrelated meeting on agriculture and fisheries, reports TechDirt.

Though initiated by the US, Japan is the official depository of the treaty.

Removal of the Three Strikes clause, in which users accused of three counts of piracy would be barred from the internet, paved the way for the EU to adopt ACTA last month.

Related to ACTA, a chapter in the Trans Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPP) “would have state signatories adopt even more restrictive copyright measures than ACTA,” reports the Electronic Frontier Foundation.

Both ACTA and TPP were developed without public input and outside international trade groups, like the World Trade Organization and the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development.

Leaked cables published by WikiLeaks in 2009 exposed early drafts of ACTA, resulting in a firestorm of controversy. Those cables, coupled with later releases, showed that ACTA negotiationsbegan in 2006 and were controversial even to participating states. An historical summary of the treaty’s progress through December can be found here.

ACTA Violates Magna Carta and US Constitution

Like PIPA and SOPA, two domestic internet censorship bills that prompted major websites to blacken their name or website in a Jan. 18th protest, ACTA allows accusers of copyright infringement to bypass judicial review. Lack of “due process” makes these bills and ACTA unconstitutional and violates the Magna Carta, a charter signed in 1215 on which most Western law is based, including the US Constitution. It is often cited as the most important legal document in the history of democracy....

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Twitter Begins Censoring Content: How This Will Affect You

Summary: Twitter said today that it will begin censoring tweets, if required by law,... more

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Rand Paul promises to filibuster ‘censor the Internet’ legislation

Kentucky Republican Sen. Rand Paul announced Wednesday that he would filibuster any... more

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The unexpurgated Mike Edison: Dirty! Dirty! Dirty! (Video Interview)

Video interview with Mike Edison, author of Dirty! Dirty! Dirty! Of Playboys, Pigs,... more

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Everything you need to know about SOPA in one hilarious gif

Well, Citizens of Current know much more, but this is a fun way to make the point to... more

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Avaaz - Blackout -- Save the Internet Today

Petition to stop internet censorship in the USA

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Make new Internet Piracy Act Ditch SOPA / PIPA

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#BlackoutSOPA Day Screen Captures - SOPA Bill Threatens Uncensored Internet - The Internet ROARS!

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PIPA and SOPA co-sponsors abandon bills

The widespread Internet blackout Wednesday, in which sites such as Wikipedia and... more

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What you're saying about SOPA and PIPA

The media's blackout of the House's Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and the... more

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Stand Together: The Gaming Community vs. SOPA/PIPA

I stand with the participants of this video against SOPA/PIPA. I AM FOR A FREE AND... more

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Wikipedia - Stop Online Piracy Act -

Stop Online Piracy Act

The Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA), also known as House Bill 3261 or H.R. 3261, is a bill that was introduced in the United States House of Representatives on October 26, 2011, by House Judiciary Committee Chair Representative Lamar S. Smith (R-TX) and a bipartisan group of 12 initial co-sponsors. The bill, if made law, would expand the ability of U.S. law enforcement and copyright holders to fight online trafficking in copyrighted intellectual property and counterfeit goods.[2] Presented to the House Judiciary Committee, it builds on the similar PRO-IP Act of 2008 and the corresponding Senate bill, the PROTECT IP Act.[3]
The originally proposed bill would allow the U.S. Department of Justice, as well as copyright holders, to seek court orders against websites accused of enabling or facilitating copyright infringement. Depending on who makes the request, the court order could include barring online advertising networks and payment facilitators from doing business with the allegedly infringing website, barring search engines from linking to such sites, and requiring Internet service providers to block access to such sites. The bill would make unauthorized streaming of copyrighted content a crime, with a maximum penalty of five years in prison for ten such infringements within six months. The bill also gives immunity to Internet services that voluntarily take action against websites dedicated to infringement, while making liable for damages any copyright holder who knowingly misrepresents that a website is dedicated to infringement.[4]
Proponents of the bill say it protects the intellectual property market and corresponding industry, jobs and revenue, and is necessary to bolster enforcement of copyright laws, especially against foreign websites.[5] They cite examples such as Google's $500 million settlement with the Department of Justice for its role in a scheme to target U.S. consumers with ads to illegally import prescription drugs from Canadian pharmacies.[6]
Opponents say that it violates the First Amendment,[7] is Internet censorship,[8] will cripple the Internet,[9] and will threaten whistle-blowing and other free speech actions.[7][10] Opponents have initiated a number of protest actions, including petition drives, boycotts of companies that support the legislation, and planned service blackouts by English Wikipedia and major Internet companies scheduled to coincide with the next Congressional hearing on the matter.
The House Judiciary Committee held hearings on November 16 and December 15, 2011. The Committee was scheduled to continue debate in January 2012,[11] but on January 17 Chairman Smith said that "[d]ue to the Republican and Democratic retreats taking place over the next two weeks, markup of the Stop Online Piracy Act is expected to resume in February."[12]Stop Online Piracy Act The Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA), also known as House Bill... more

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Internet Shuts Down On January 18th 2012

BE SURE TO GOOGLE BOMB THIS STORY OR RANK IT UP. Many of your major websites will... more

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Wikipedia to Go Dark on Wednesday to Protest Bills on Web Piracy

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Cheezburger CEO Ben Huh SOPA Smackdown With Rick Cotton of NBC Universal On PBS News Hour (VIDEO)

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Worldwide Hippies News Briefs: This is not what democracy looks like

SOPA, PIPA What does the legislation do?

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In Opposition to PIPA

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A World Without Wikipedia: For SOPA, Websites Threaten a Midnight Blackout

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Current Community protests SOPA/PIPA – Are you In?

Congress is calling SOPA a way to prevent online infringement and piracy. However, those committed to free speech rights and creative innovation know that this is nothing more than an attempt to compromise Internet security, free speech and creative license. As currently drafted the legislation would grant the government and other parties unprecedented power to force ISPs and search engines to redirect or block users' attempts to reach certain websites. This in turn would threaten the security and reliability of the Internet as a whole in creating other third party servers besides severely limiting free speech. And under SOPA's provisions ISPs would also be pressured to monitor user activities.

YouTube Video on how PROTECT IP / SOPA Act Breaks the Internet http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=HGEUhCfQ464

House Bill - H.R.3261 - Stop Online Piracy Act (aka SOPA) http://www.opencongress.org/bill/112-h3261/show
Senate Bill - S.968 - PROTECT IP Act of 2011 (aka PIPA)
http://www.opencongress.org/bill/112-s968/show

All in all this is a direct attempt to limit free exchange of ideas on the Internet, the truly last bastion of freedom we have. Therefore, in response to the SOPA black out day scheduled for January 18 to coincide with witness testimony in Washington DC, we were hoping members of Current would also become involved in a site wide showing of solidarity for Internet freedom against SOPA.

Therefore, we are asking those interested in participating on January 18 to respond in this thread with the following responses: "Boycotting" or "Post about SOPA" to let us know how you intend to participate. We are also urging everyone to list this in all their groups and to come on January 18 to vote up all SOPA posts. Now we cannot force or limit anyone from posting on other topics, but to make a showing where the majority of articles on the front of the Community page would address this important topic with the responses reading "Stop SOPA" would send a message that we who use the Internet are serious about preserving its freedom.

Senate will vote on the Internet censorship on Tuesday, January 24th. You can find where your Members of Congress Stand on SOPA and PIPA http://projects.propublica.org/sopa/.

Click http://my.americancensorship.org/ to see what is happening in your state.

Please then participate on January 18 and respond in this thread so we have an idea of how many people here will participate in this show of web wide solidarity for freedom.

Thank you,
MotherForTruth / JanforGoreCongress is calling SOPA a way to prevent online infringement and piracy. However,... more

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