Poll: Do you think the web censorship bill is really about stopping copywrite infringement, or Wikileaks?

Question

I think it's worth remembering that Wikileaks has recently gotten the attention of the U.S. government, and rightly so. But do you think the recent proposals for an internet crackdown (which many say will affect far more than just piracy sites), is really about copywrite, or more about having the ability to censor certain parts of the internet deemed "unpleasant"?

I know this is a bit outside the scope of the usual Polls and Surveys question but I'd really appreciate your opinions.

Answer 1

YA dishes out VNs and Suspensions based upon a users Q&A.

If that's not censorship what is? Many other types also censor users.

Censorship is already alive and well on the Internet.

Answer 2

SOPA and PIPA may have started out as anti-Wikileaks measures (and just FYI, Wikileaks are NOT Wikipedia, two different sites, completely).



But anymore I doubt Wikileaks is competent enough to be that big a threat by itself. And the truth of it is, local police departments (and especially big-city ones) are already militarized quite enough to _Flatten_ uprisings like your Occupy mess. And likewise the RIAA already _has_ every tool they need to sue every online citizen into prison, bankruptcy and ruin as it is.



So I don't really think it's about Wikileaks _now_, or that it ever _was_ about copyright enforcement.



I think this is a "let's kill YouTube and video torrent sites before they kill off mainstream television" act. Really, that's what this boils down to--killing off YouTube so things like Occupy get zero media exposure, and killing off torrents entirely, so that the RIAA can go back to bullying little girls and dead grandmas.



And how do you do that? Well, you make the IP compliance requirements for uploading _any_ video to the internet, at all, so dictatorial that if you whistle a tune, cover a song, or quote someone, it becomes an instant felony without so much as a trial. You make it so that if someone's TV, radio or cellphone goes off randomly, by accident, in an uploaded video, it _doesn't matter_ if it was accidental or even without the uploader's consent--it becomes an instant felony.



And that word "Felony" matters because here in the States we _DO_ punish felons twice: They get their VOTE taken away, usually forever. So this is as much a "one internet connection, NO VOTE" law as it is anything.



Oh, and it's an Ex Post Facto Law besides, at least as far as YouTube goes, because _every video present_ will be judged according to this new law. All of them, including the _millions_ that were previously considered legal, and that YouTube itself went out of its way to _keep legal_ under the previous law. So basically SOPA and PIPA would kill off YouTube entirely because YouTube would be considered "aiding and abetting criminals" retroactively, with each video that _was legal_ before the fact under Fair Use.



So I see this as more of a "protect mainstream television" act because it's being replaced by the internet, which _usually_ has a less greedy business model that _usually_ interferes with Freedom of Speech a lot less. Chinese sites entirely notwithstanding.



Oh, and so it keeps things like Wikileaks and Occupy from happening? Bonus for the wingnut crowd. And it makes things more heavily controlled and censored than what's in China? Ditto, because we all know how sold-out a bunch of whores Congress really are, don't we?

Answer 3

well SOPA only affects on domestic domains and sites reside in US and American jurisdiction areas like Puerto Rico. US government can't interfere Asian or European sites.this SOPA bill is an American bill not Europeans or Asian one so it can't do anything in fact most of pirates reside in Europe it includes Russia, Norway, Sweden, the infamous razor1911 groups resides in Norway and they have been existing since 1985 and still around here. so if this bill is passed this would be a bad time for Americans not rest of people around the world. cause people already know the places to get their stuff.

so if you are a great fan of piratebay scream for your rights. ;) lol

Answer 4

you're able to or won't be waiting to, your acceptable weapon is training. Get a DNS outdoors of the states, take care of your very own hosts report, and use proxies. The greater you realize, the less they administration you. i've got blanketed a hyperlink to Censur Fri dns (a play on Semper Fi), tor, and the wiki for Hosts records.

Answer 5

Web censorship is the beginning of the end of human freedom. Democracy is failing, and turning in to totalitarianism.

Answer 6

They just need to worry about themselves instead of what I wan to view on the net.

Answer 7

Wikipedia is just being whiny. The information is there, we're supposed to use it. Do they expect us to just read it out of recreation?

Answer 8

NWO