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Update Regarding Stop Online Piracy Act and NDAA
- Thread starter PokéTrainer J
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DNS Provision Removed!
http://news.cnet.com/8301-31001_3-57358947-261/dns-provision-pulled-from-sopa-victory-for-opponents/
This is pretty huge.
FALSE ALARM. MERELY DELAYED NOT REMOVED: http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20...locking-provisions-merely-delaying-them.shtml
http://news.cnet.com/8301-31001_3-57358947-261/dns-provision-pulled-from-sopa-victory-for-opponents/
This is pretty huge.
FALSE ALARM. MERELY DELAYED NOT REMOVED: http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20...locking-provisions-merely-delaying-them.shtml
Yeah, but really I'd like it more if the bill was pulled altogether. It's good that that's no longer a part of it but none of it should be passed to begin with, and this only makes that more likely to happen.
I love this idea though. http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/...ering-nuclear-option-to-stop-SOPA?via=siderec
It would do wonders to spread the word about it, even if they did it for as short as an hour during 'rush hour' internet time.
I love this idea though. http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/...ering-nuclear-option-to-stop-SOPA?via=siderec
It would do wonders to spread the word about it, even if they did it for as short as an hour during 'rush hour' internet time.
I'm afraid about the possibility that the head politicians in the US are in support of sopa behind our backs, despite the opposition, although I'm not accusing them of misleading the people when I know that the misleaders, regardless of whether or not they are any, may be offended if I give names of people who are abusing their power, as according to this article plus articles already posted about the sopa/pipa matter, I wonder if some will never be convinced unless we vote them out of office. I hope that claim is not 100% true, as I hope they do not have their mind set on hindering us and refusing to yield away from their desires despite high levels of opposition to their hurtful proposals, because refusal to listen to calls to sway away from fulfillment of your hurtful desires, despite the strength of the message, only leads to a logical failure that someone else will be forced to fix, at the expense of a negative hit to the reputation of the person who made the logical mistake...
Oh, and by the way, I have an example demonstrating their possible resistance to the people's desires that I hope they recognize before it's too late to save their reputation. According to this article, they have already passed changes to patent laws for the worse... :(
Oh, and by the way, I have an example demonstrating their possible resistance to the people's desires that I hope they recognize before it's too late to save their reputation. According to this article, they have already passed changes to patent laws for the worse... :(
Bartman101
Banned deucer.
18/1/12
The day no homework will be done.
The day no homework will be done.
Reddit's down too though.
God, people will have to write their OWN essays!
Naah, there's always Google Cache...
C&H and SMBC are down in protest of this.
http://youtu.be/dmQN93NqqDM
http://www.theatlantic.com/politics...-could-kill-internet-privacy-for-good/242853/
there are now two more pieces of legislation which have been introduced to rape the internet.
http://www.theatlantic.com/politics...-could-kill-internet-privacy-for-good/242853/
there are now two more pieces of legislation which have been introduced to rape the internet.
Haha yeah Alan.
Also, this is pretty interesting: http://news.cnet.com/8301-17852_3-57363931-71/anonymous-facebook-is-next-on-january-28/
Also, this is pretty interesting: http://news.cnet.com/8301-17852_3-57363931-71/anonymous-facebook-is-next-on-january-28/
Even if they could do it, shutting down Facebook is a terrible, terrible idea for so many reasons. It's such a huge part of the internet structure that they're going to undermine many legitimate organizations that are irrelevant to Anon's pursuits. It's maddeningly reckless and it's going to hurt the cause more than help it.
It's actually not the real Anonymous, as the real Anonymous organization posted on their Twitter feed @AnonOps: "Again we must say that we will not attack #Facebook! Again the mass media lie."
They already snuffed out Megaupload.
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there is no "real anonymous organization". anonymous has no leadership structure. @anonops speaks only for themself. if enough people identifying with anonymous decide to go after facebook, then it will happen.
i tend to disagree (to an extent). there is no faster way to get the world's attention than through facebook. no respectable organization depends on facebook for its web presence anyway.
Wasn't SOPA indefinitely postponed after the massive backlash post-18th?
And didn't the White House say the bill would be vetoed if it HAD gone through the Senate?
ACTA has flown under the radars of most people as far as I know (...wait, it was signed a few months ago?), similarly to SOPA/PIPA before Google and Wikipedia flexed their information-spreading muscles. While they could exert that push again, abusing their GLOBAL influence, I'm not sure if it would be a good idea for them to exert political force repeatedly via their services.
sopa is delayed
but apparently acta is being signed tomorrow by the european union
but apparently acta is being signed tomorrow by the european union
According to ACTA's Wikipedia page, it already got signed last year, and the European Union was one of the signatories.
Edit: Nevermind, I just saw this. Now I'm confused...it says on Wikipedia that it got signed by the US, the EU, and some other countries last year, but apparently it's getting signed by the EU tomorrow...?