COICA...Get ready for censorship

fenderbender · 09-29-2010, 03:55 AM

You may think that you live in a free country. That the USA will never censor the internet like china. LOL,

Time to realize that you are about to be wrong

COICA Fact Sheet | Stop the Internet Blacklist! | Demand Progress

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Isn't the word censored a little overheated?

Not at all. In the US, the way things work is that if you're using the Internet to do something illegal, you're brought to court and the courts can shut you down. This bill would bypass that whole system by forcing Internet service providers to block access to sites that are otherwise up. People in other countries could still get to them, but Internet users in the US would be blocked. This kind of Internet censorship is exactly the sort of thing the US government has been criticizing China and Iran for -- just the other day, Obama told the UN that "We will support a free and open Internet." Now it turns out we're going to start censoring the Internet ourselves.

This bill will no just stop here, and like dan said to me earlier tonight, it will be used just like another patriot act. It is purposefully an EXTREMELY vague bill, leaving many loopholes to soon be exploited.

there is more information besides this one site, buts its 7 am and im still awake, so i recommend looking for yourself

Stop the Internet Blacklist! | Demand Progress

signing the petition cant hurt, but i doubt itll help too much

wake up, it is happening, You will see soon enough.

my_scatterheart · 09-29-2010, 04:07 AM

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