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SOPA ! Printed From: CorrectCraftFan.com Category: General Correct Craft Discussion Forum Name: Off Topic Forum Discription: Anything non-Correct Craft URL: http://www.CorrectCraftFan.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=24539 Printed Date: January-12-2025 at 8:53am Topic: SOPA ! Posted By: MattB Subject: SOPA ! Date Posted: January-03-2012 at 9:07am So its the new year and I am working my way through my many many emails and SOPA keeps coming up more and more...you guys in the US are on the brink of something bad and are close to being hit with massive internet restrictions and your freedom of speech (on the internet) massively restricted! If it happens to you guys then I am sure the UK will soon follow with something equally bad. I do understand the ideas behind the bill but the wording could take the bill way beyond its original idea. On November 15, Google, Facebook, Twitter, Zynga, eBay, Mozilla, Yahoo, AOL, and LinkedIn wrote a letter to key members of the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives, saying SOPA poses "a serious risk to our industry's continued track record of innovation and job creation, as well as to our nation's cybersecurity." Have a read through some of the links below, there is a lot of information to work through but worth reading what some of your senators are about to support! http://news.cnet.com/8301-31921_3-57329001-281/how-sopa-would-affect-you-faq/ - http://news.cnet.com/8301-31921_3-57329001-281/how-sopa-would-affect-you-faq/ http://news.cnet.com/8301-31921_3-57346592-281/how-sopas-circumvention-ban-could-put-a-target-on-tor/ - http://news.cnet.com/8301-31921_3-57346592-281/how-sopas-circumvention-ban-could-put-a-target-on-tor/ http://david.weebly.com/1/post/2011/12/godaddy-a-glimpse-of-the-internet-under-sopa.html - http://david.weebly.com/1/post/2011/12/godaddy-a-glimpse-of-the-internet-under-sopa.html Happy new year guys, I would say its good to be back but to be honest I wish I was still on holiday ------------- http://www.correctcraftfan.com/diaries/details.asp?ID=6102" rel="nofollow - 2001 http://uksn2001.blogspot.com/" rel="nofollow - SN2001 Blog Replies: Posted By: MattB Date Posted: January-03-2012 at 10:20am Oh and here is an article that sums things up quite nicely and shows why the legislation is so bad. http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/toms-hardware-sopa-Stop-Online-Piracy-Act-PROTECT-IP-Senate,news-37425.html - http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/toms-hardware-sopa-Stop-Online-Piracy-Act-PROTECT-IP-Senate,news-37425.html Assign liability to site owners for everything users post, without consideration for whether or not the user posted without permission. Site owners could face jail time or heavy fines, and DNS blacklisting. It would require web services like YouTube, Facebook, and Twitter to monitor and aggressively filter everything all users upload. It would deny site owners due process of law, by initiating a DNS blacklisting based solely on a good faith assertion by an individual copyright or intellectual property owner. It would give the U.S. government the power to selectively censor the web using techniques similar to those used in China, Malaysia and Iran. The Great Firewall of China is an example of this type of embedded, infrastructural internet censorship. There is a link for you guys to contact your elected official: https://action.eff.org/o/9042/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=8173 - https://action.eff.org/o/9042/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=8173 ------------- http://www.correctcraftfan.com/diaries/details.asp?ID=6102" rel="nofollow - 2001 http://uksn2001.blogspot.com/" rel="nofollow - SN2001 Blog Posted By: eric lavine Date Posted: January-03-2012 at 10:28am i thought we were fighting for freedom around the world, i didnt read the articles yet, who is behind this? ------------- "the things you own will start to own you" Posted By: eric lavine Date Posted: January-03-2012 at 10:28am fcc? ------------- "the things you own will start to own you" Posted By: MattB Date Posted: January-03-2012 at 10:40am One of its chief supporters is "Lamar Smith" but the main money behind all the lobbying is coming from the MPAA and RIAA. ------------- http://www.correctcraftfan.com/diaries/details.asp?ID=6102" rel="nofollow - 2001 http://uksn2001.blogspot.com/" rel="nofollow - SN2001 Blog Posted By: Riley Date Posted: January-03-2012 at 12:39pm Hopefully, our elected officials will not go along with this, but I think it's only a matter of time before they come up with a plan to tax commerce on the internet, and then they will not hold back on restricting the whole web so they can put their hands in all of our pockets.

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