United States to censor the internet and destroy net neutrality!

Plus ca change....

Anyone else here remember having blue ribbons on their websites? LOL

I highly doubt any kind of real / significant internet censorship bill would pass in the USA.

I forget the details, but my basic understanding of this is shown in ONE statement here!!!!!

They are THEIR assets, they are the ******ONLY****** ones ON THE PLANET that know WHAT they have available and what are being used! ALSO, ******ANY****** attempt to try to figure out their resources through programs or hardware will ADVERSLY affect them and end up making things WORSE!

OK, I HATE it when, after going past a certain point, I may see my throughput drop, or even VANISH! I may hate being disconnected. I HATE it when I can't download GIGABYTES at work, etc... BTW on that last one, I limit info to only a few K unless it is for work and THEN I limit it to the BARE MINIMUM. OK, I hate all that. But I am smart enough to know that if they DIDN'T, the internet would come to a SCREACHING HALT! They HAVE to allow resources to cover other visitors.

If the politicians want to avoid that, GREAT! They can take ALL THEIR pensions, WAIVE ALL THEIR social security, take all THEIR income, all THEIR savings, all THEIR property, etc.... and start THEIR OWN ILEC, lay THEIR OWN media, and provide THEIR OWN backbone. For a few trillion dollars, and maybe a decade or two, they ought to be able to TRIPLE capacity. THEN, they can have THEIR OWN company run things THEIR OWN way! Want to take any bets whether or not they last more than 5 years?

Steve

Kay, Neither legislative trend in the OP has anything to do with that. COICA relates to copyright infringement and piracy. If a site's primary purpose is the illegal distribution of copyrighted material, I hardly think it qualifies for protection under the First Amendment.

I haven't yet read the bill, so it may be that there are objectionable sections. Wouldn't be the first time legislation covered more than what it's label implied. But if this is just about protecting creators from pirates and copyright infringement, the blogger needs to re-take his Civics 101 class.

Enforcing copyright and trademark law is hardly "censorship."

The subject line is also inaccurate in suggesting that the US Government is attempting to "destroy" net neutrality. They failed to get a pre-emptive bill passed the first time around. That's hardly an effort to "destroy" anything.


Paul

There was one censorship bill that already got shot down this year - recently, in fact. Sometimes election years are good for stuff like that - especially with the amount of unrest going on right now.

There are bills on about everything to do with the Internet right now - both ways - bills for them to keep their hands off crap and bills to let them take over in true simon legree fashion. ACTA I think was shot down here - or likely to be, can't remember now - but that covered copyright issues, but the means by which it took to do so seems to have been questionable enough to get dumped in a few countries.

If you are worried about it, write to your legislators and tell them "no". That's what citizens are supposed to do. If you don't and they pass censorship laws that you don't approve of.......tough noogies.

Incidentally - related but not completely On topic -- I quit getting targeted ads on my FB page since I got the Better Protection pluggin on FF. It cleans the LSO cookies off your computer. It obviously works - Google no longer seems to be trying to sell me books by my favorite author etc.