Rob, do you have links to those acts? thx

I was reading about this today. It would mean that companies like Google and Twitter - in fact, any sites that allow user generated content - would have to make sure that none of their users are putting out copyrighted material.

This is obviously going to be extremely difficult to police if such a bill was passed. The internet seems to have grown too big for that. It would be a litigation nightmare.

I can't see a bill like this being passed any time soon. While the concept makes sense, there are just too many gray areas.

American Censorship Day November 16 - Join the fight to stop SOPA

Heres a link

Go sign the petition and share it with your friends.

"The internet interprets censorship as damage and routes around it." - John Gilmour, 1993

They've been trying to censor the internet for twenty years. The bills pass. The departments are formed. And nothing happens.

Every few years, there is a new and different effort to censor the internet which might actually work.

Except that it is neither, and it won't.

Don't argue with these people. Don't fight these people. Leave them alone. Let them form their new department and staff it with idiots and try to do something that won't work. It will keep them busy.

It's just like giving your infant the car keys to play with. Sure, it's POSSIBLE for someone with your car keys to get in the car and drive off and damage property or hurt people. But it's an infant. That's not going to happen.

Give them the car keys already. Even if they do miraculously figure out how to get them into the ignition, it's not like they can reach the pedals.

I agree 100% with CDarklock.

But at the same time, still.. go sign the petition just to be sure.

If for nothing else, do it for entertainment purposes. LOL

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It could easily be censored if the bill requires ISPs and even hosts to install filters. Or just install them at the major routing points.

Garrie

The last I heard, this revision of the bill would force ISP's to comply with whatever the government said to do.

So if they said to cut off access to their city, they have to do so.

Like CD said, it has been proposed several times. Each time it gets shot down, so they make revisions and name it something else.

However, its no longer uncommon for people to setup their own server and therefore, they ARE their own ISP. So I don't really see the point of focusing on this, when we could be focused on bringing our troops back to their families instead of paying to blow up countries, then paying to rebuild them..

This government is screwed up man.. Thats the only reason I vote.. If things dont turn out how I wanted them to, then at least I tried to make a difference. Same with signing the petition. If it passes, oh well.. nothing I can do. But at least I tried to have a voice in the discussion.

One of my favorite quotes that I live by has always been "You miss 100% of the shots you dont take."

Let's demystify this a little and explain what this bill says.

A court order can put your site on a list of sites all US ISPs must block.

The attorney general can put your site on a list of sites that all US ISPs should block.

Now stop and think about this a little.

Getting a site onto the blacklist requires legal or political action.

Now, yes, the attorney general can unilaterally tell all ISPs in the country to put your site on the blacklist. But let's not put too fine a point on it, shall we?

If someone can convince the attorney general that your site needs to be blacklisted, you have got some pretty damn big problems.

Even then, an awful lot of ISPs are not run by corporate tools. Most people in major metropolitan areas will have their choice of several ISPs who don't give a crap about the "suggested to block" list, and the major ISPs will have to compete with those ISPs. So because they can't exactly have regional directives about this sort of thing, the major ISPs won't use it either.

Which leaves you the list that has to be amended by court order, and it's a lot faster and easier to move shop than it is to get a new court order.

So when they say "you must block nasty.com," the good - um, I mean, not-so-good - people at nasty.com will just yank their server off the network, swap out the MAC address, assign a new IP, and throw it back online under nastier.com until the new court order comes through.

Nothing changes. We just add some new rules to the game, and the bluefart players like these games.

^ Right, but for the people in a small town where there literally is only ONE provider, that would kinda suck.. Especially a town that is corrupt and driven by money, even when they dont use it for a thing. lol

So if that ONE provider decided to blacklist stuff, or even shut off access completely (which this bill would give them the authority to do) that would mean moving to a whole different city, just to access the web (and make a living, in our cases)

I just moved in a new washer & dryer yesterday... I really don't feel like moving it again, on top of all our other stuff.. ahaha

I like the way you think.

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Seriously ? !

So, next time I go visit eBay, Amazon , fiverr, facebook, twitter or other website i may find it banned by ISP because I am sure a website with millions of users will certainly got some content somewhere to shut it down.

I seen many bills lately for censoring the internet, since internet seems to be a big problem, my idea for next bill is simple, BAN THE INTERNET.

This is cheaper than censoring it

omg.. wtf....

That my friend, sounds just down right creepy as hell.

I really hope you embrace the right to keep a firearm.

Sure, we hope for the best. But you have to plan for the worst.

So if you don't and you are legally allowed to carry one, please do so.

But make sure its one that is going to work when you need it to. Don't go for some cheap Hi-Point and expect it to fire. You might not want to use deadly force, but if you should need to, its good to know that your weapon is going to work.

This bill will never pass unless Al Gore gives the go ahead, lol!

Like I said, make sure you get a good one.

There is a reason the police (and myself) trust our lives with GLOCK

Attend some training classes first if you are uncomfortable with the idea, check out the local shooting range and get a feel for different calibers. Find something that makes YOU feel safe.

I personally like the model 22. Same one the police use. 40 caliber, 15 shot magazines (for standard size, but you can upgrade to hold a LOT more) and then of course the 45 caliber models are more for stopping power than capacity.

People seem to love 9mm, but I've found that the smaller the caliber, the more likely it is to jam. Even with regular cleaning, and regardless of the manufacturer.

So the hearings were today. What happened?

Great insights in this post... Especially this...

Same thing happened here and nothing has really eventuated from it. The Government has more dangerous things coming through the stargate at the moment...

Stephen Conroy says... (SBS News 6 June 2010) - YouTube

guys start sharing, I hope WF join the petition as well.

Yes,let us all not sign the document,let them make more agency's that us taxpayers can pay there wages,and we can put more government officials to work while the rest of the country starves.
Gotta love this democracy thing.

@ whosthatguru.
Black powder.do not have to license.Even with no ammo,rocks work.

As the internet evolves day by day governments all across the world will try to regulate it cause they know where the money lies. I think this notion should be part of every long term business strategy especially involving the internet.

I had a Mossberg 12 gauge (with the plug tho, so it only held 5+1) and yes, it was great. But you can't conceal it.

And screw the buckshot - I like the 3" hollow-point magnums. Now THOSE are some bad-ass slugs.

I took a friend out to the shooting range, loaded up a couple of 2 3/4 inch birdshot shells, then I put one of the 3 inch magnums behind those 2 birdshot.

I told him "go ahead, shoot it a few times." He shot the first two, no problems. He was like "oh wow, that doesn't kick too bad after all!"

So I'm like "see I told you it wasn't so bad, go ahead and shoot another one!"

Well, he didn't know the next one was the 3 inch magnum. It was hilarious. He about fell over.. LMFAO

I haven't laughed that hard in awhile man.

And how can you say screw GLOCK??

I hit like 12/16 shots from 100 yards away with that pistol.. 100 yards!

I doubt most police officers have aim that good

But anyway, getting back on topic here:

Does anybody know what the outcome of the vote was?

I saw this the other night, I participated in the protest on all my sites! Anyone else?

I haven't seen any update in the news or anything concerning if it was passed or not! But I'll be keeping my eyes open for any update.