Tech | May 17, 2011 | 7 comments

Shhhhh! Don't Save the Internet ... from the Blacklist?!

source: http://figrd.blogspot.com/2011/05/shepard-faireyobey-if-you-were-in-spin.html

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Friends,
Shhh... We're not allowed to talk about it. The new Internet Blacklist Bill shows so little regard for free speech and Internet freedom that it would actually ban people from having serious conversations about the new Internet Blacklist Bill.
It would block "information location tools" from pointing to sites "suspected" of piracy. So that means that we couldn't send you a post , article, or email just like this one with links to the websites that were being prosecuted.
Will you click here
http://act.demandprogress.org/sign/protectip_docs/?ak_proof=1&akid=624.24602...
to urge Congress to oppose the ridiculous, obscene, draconian, PROTECT-IP Act?!
It's not an exaggeration for CNET's headline to shout, "Senate bill amounts to death penalty for websites." They say the draft bill "would certainly sweep in Google, Yahoo, and search engines, and may also cover many other Web sites."
Please help us fight this legislation, which is far worse than the first Internet Blacklist Bill -- just click here.
Thanks for standing with us,
-- The Demand Progress team
P.S. The new bill is a "death penalty for websites" and it's moving fast. We need to act quickly too , links and sources at site or Demand progress
http://act.demandprogress.org/sign/protectip_docs/?ak_proof=1&akid=624.24602...
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7 comments // Shhhhh! Don't Save the Internet ... from the Blacklist?!

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  • Saladin
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      Saladin  

    • I'm scared that we're approaching an Australia or China style internet each and every day.

      What the fuck is wrong with this country that anyone would consider this a good idea?

    • 1 year ago
  • noxidereus
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      noxidereus  

    • Our form of mock-democracy (demockracy) that is actually a plutocracy exists only because many/most people remain ignorant. The internet is the single largest threat to ignorance. If information is freely available to everyone, the people will start to wake up. No matter how hard we fight, no matter how loud we scream about this, the internet will be censored in America as it is in China or even worse than that eventually.

      The ones with all of the money and power don't want people waking up to their scam. They want the internet to be a propaganda mill and consumer trough and nothing more than that.

    • 1 year ago
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