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Worse Than China?! U.S. wants to Censor Search Engines & Browsers

source: http://figrd.blogspot.com/2011/05/very-important-message-and-action-from.html

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A very important message and action from Demand Progress please if you treasure an open free internet like we do,...then, we need immediate action to stop this move by big money to destroy the internet as we know it in America and push this bill through it has draconian like power to wipe all trace of sites from the web.-Figgdimension
Stop the" Protect IP" Bill being slammed through Congress by Big Bis.

We knew it was coming: Members of Congress and their business allies were gearing up to pass a revised Internet Blacklist Bill -- which more than 325,000 Demand Progress members helped block last winter -- but we never expected it to be this atrocious. Last year's bill has been renamed the "PROTECT IP" Act and it is far worse than its predecessor.

Senators Leahy and Hatch pretended to weigh free speech concerns as they revised the bill. Instead, the new legislation would institute a China-like censorship regime in the United States, whereby the Department of Justice could force search engines, browsers, and service providers to block users' access to websites, and scrub the American Internet clean of any trace of their existence.

Will you urge Congress to oppose the PROTECT IP Act? Just click on link below-- it'll only take a second.
http://act.demandprogress.org/sign/protectip_docs/?akid=621.355275.nD5OHv&rd...

Furthermore, it wouldn't just be the Attorney General who could add sites to the blacklist, but the new bill would allow any copyright holder to get sites blacklisted -- sure to result in an explosion of dubious and confused orders.

Please help us push Congress to reject the PROTECT IP Act: Just click here.
Thanks for continuing the fight for a free and open Internet.
-- The Demand Progress team
P.S. Wealthy, powerful interests are trying to ram this bill through Congress. Will you urge your friends to join us as we fight back? You can forward this email, or share the petition with them
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15 comments // Worse Than China?! U.S. wants to Censor Search Engines & Browsers

  • 14_Crusaders
  • 14_Crusaders
  • artemis6
  • twinite
  • CalgarC
  • Progresshiv
  • Cruzankenny
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      Cruzankenny  

    • The sooner they clamp down, the sooner the 'net' evolves. It began as a Department of Defense project and it never really lost track of its beginnings. What lawmakers don't understand is the net is to big and encompasses more than one country. Remember outlaw radio? There are still ways to circumvent the knot in the web, the one with an FBI station in every co-location station.
      I say, do it now and let the pendulum swing!

    • 1 year ago
  • warman1138
  • Kevin_Murphy
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      Kevin_Murphy  

    • The U.S is getting there, online poker is banned already, this is the next logical step. Land of the fucking free, whens all the madness gonna end?

    • 1 year ago
  • PeteLeS33
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      PeteLeS33  

    • I dont think the internet will ever be fully controlled by a government entity. there are so many ways to circumvent websites that there will allways be a way to get around it. Groups like anyomoyous and willileaks have proven that there are many ways to get asscess to the sites you want. To keep our world free from these threats we all need to learn and understand how EXACTLY this magic box we call a computer works.

    • 1 year ago
  • MDBard
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      MDBard  

    • Corporations at there finest. Damn so much for land of the Free. I wonder if politicians have a buy one get one free thing going on.

      "Home of the Brave"
      My Country its the shit
      polluted garbage pit
      Ran by the rich and few
      workers they damn sure screw
      For more money they stew
      And the government hasn't a clue
      So lets Rebel.

      Lackey "The peasants are revolting"
      Koch "The peasants have always been revolting"
      Lackey " Aye sir but now there rebelling"

      Always a good day to make a Monty Python reference.

    • 1 year ago
  • ArchDruid
  • figgdimension
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      figgdimension  
    • ArchDruid:

      I know right,? If it's not broke don't try to fix it... thanks for comment Archdruid I had to post this and try to fight this latest assualt on our right's and wishes nobody wants this but big money!

    • 1 year ago
  • letsliveinpeace
  • figgdimension
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      figgdimension  
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    • Lets not let this be like the net neutrality loss we need no more censorship and conformity its restrictive and stunts any growth from so much of our small bis's and internet browsers ,bloggers, search engines, and much more , its worse than Chine Stop this Bill Now Please go to Demand Progress and sign the petition ASAP big money interests are pushing hard like The Net Neutrality they want exclusive control and restrictions on everything effectively destroying the web in America as we know it ... Thanks
      http://act.demandprogress.org/sign/protectip_docs/?akid=621.355275.nD5OHv&rd...

    • 1 year ago
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