“or radio” was removed at each “__” so you anonymous SOPA whiners would recognize the malfeasant FCC but “or radio” would cover the walkie-talkie AND wireless.

“… a rapid, efficient, Nation-wide, and world-wide wire __ communication service with adequate facilities at reasonable charges, for the purpose of the national defense, for the purpose of promoting safety of life and property through the use of wire __ communications, and for the purpose of securing a more effective execution of this policy by centralizing authority heretofore granted by law to several agencies and by granting additional authority with respect to interstate and foreign commerce in wire __ communication , …” 47 USC §151

The laws ALREADY PASSED have been clear since 1934.
Telecommunications by wire or radio is all the Internet ever was.

And remember they were elected to supposedly represent us, the people.

Let ’s take this one step further.

If we use the internet to send a email to our elected representatives in DC because we are upset about this bill, or anything, and we either don’t put our name on it, or simply put our first name on it, and the content of that email annoys the person we sent it to, should we be arrested and fined lots of money by law?

How about if I use a walkie-talkie to talk to someone and it has wires inside?

I wonder if wired and wireless mean the same thing too…?

@ by centralizing authority heretofore granted by law to several agencies and by granting additional authority with respect to interstate and foreign commerce in wire []communication, there is created a commission to be known as the “Federal Communications Commission”.

“Commerce” is all they could regulate under that even if the internet is considered wired.

If I surf to other countries am I going on a “wire” to them?

Then there is that old “commerce clause” in the constitution that was so perverted to give federal government so much power…

(52) Wire Communications

The term “wire communication” or “communication by wire” means the transmission of writing, signs, signals, pictures, and sounds of all kinds by aid of wire, cable, or other like connection between the points of origin and reception of such transmission, including all instrumentalities, facilities, apparatus, and services (among other things, the receipt, forwarding, and delivery of communications) incidental to such transmission.

Hmmm why are internet wire communications not regulated by the FCC?

For the purpose of regulating interstate and foreign commerce in communication by wire []so as to make available, so far as possible, to all the people of the United States, without discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, national origin, or sex, a rapid, efficient, Nation-wide, and world-wide wire []communication service with adequate facilities at reasonable charges, for the purpose of the national defense, for the purpose of promoting safety of life and property through the use of wire []communications, and for the purpose of securing a more effective execution of this policy by centralizing authority heretofore granted by law to several agencies and by granting additional authority with respect to interstate and foreign commerce in wire []communication, there is created a commission to be known as the “Federal Communications Commission”, which shall be constituted as hereinafter provided, and which shall execute and enforce the provisions of this chapter.

There is far more involved this time, such as the DNS servers I am using right now that would become illegal under this bill because they are not from any ISP, and could bypass the blockade.

They threw around just as much money all those times too I’m betting. In fact, they even tried pushing legislation just like SOPA, as in the same damn internet business, before and it fell flat on it’s face.

That and we’ve got twenty days as of posting to drum up more support against it. Keep at it people.

We can only hope it turns out to be nothing but unfortunately money talks

Y’know, one thing that I noticed… this isn’t the first time the MPAA and the RIAA have pulled a stunt like this.

They did the same thing when the VCR was first invented in the 70s, and again with the CD burner in the 90s, and again with the DVD player and the first Mp3 players.

Yet each time we wound up with things like Blockbuster Video and iTunes and what they tried never went anywhere. Something tells me this will wind up more of the same.

O RLY? OvO

Many sites of all kinds out there have been telling their viewers to do that for a long time now…

How to bypass #SOPA if/when it passes.

What SOPA would do to censor the internet is force internet companies to block their DNS servers from sending you to the sites you want. When you type in donttreadonmike.com, your request is sent to a DNS server which then sends you to the website’s true address, or IP address, which just looks like a bunch of numbers. Under SOPA, if a site is blocked or blacklisted, it will still be there, but DNS servers will no longer process your request. The site can still be accessed directly through it’s IP address.

You may want to start building a list of your favorite site’s IP addresses just in case SOPA passes so that you’ll still be able to visit them.

http://donttreadonmike.com/2012/01/03/how-to-bypass-sopa-ifwhen-it-passes/

This bill is stupid!

Belarus Bans Browsing of All Foreign Websites: http://torrentfreak.com/belarus-bans-browsing-of-all-foreign-websites-120103/

This is what SOPA will do in the USA!

ALL DIGITAL PHOTO FILES OR WEBSITES CAN HAVE "META-DATA” DESCRIBING THE BINARY MACHINE-READABLE DATA INCLUDED RESULTING IN DISPLAY OF ART.

This has been true since before internet wire communications were developed to generally replace telegraph wire communications internationally. See 47 USC §153 ¶(52)

All photo files can be marked as to the binary content resulting in the photograph being displayed by the application whether that be a web browser or offline application. These are similar to the optional alt tags in HTML. Most internet wire communication are illegal already and this will soon be addressed.

The obvious definition is linked above from law.cornell.edu.

SOPA and EVERY other IP bill will soon become entirely insignificant in comparison to enforcing laws already passed and ignored.

FREE SPEECH will finally occur online and “rights” to exclusively control attribution & copies will occur.

@gamerLEN
“You do realize nobody is paying attention to you anymore right?”

Did they EVER pay attention? Online and offline pornography will soon require authenticated adult viewership and that viewership dates/times be stored local to the computer used to display adult art.

Did you catch the online and offline part of the above? It is already technically trivial and has been trivial for twenty years or more.

Michael Henri Page Esq misled the Western District of Arkansas Magistrate Judge Honorable Erin L Setser and described the Google Inc search engine as, “For one thing, search is completely automated. It goes out, it crawls the web, it sees what’s there, and it reports it back. The machine has no way of knowing whether a picture is nude…”, as is totally incorrect and malicious. See Dkt 216 pp(71-75) and read the fairytale told by Google Inc in open Court.

Oh yeah. I laughed myself silly when I saw that. CBS is basically the modern day Dr. Frankenstein in that they created their own worst enemy. :P

I don’t buy the conspiracy theory either, unless CEOs get psychic powers as part of their promotion package and can see the future, but it is funny.

You do realize nobody is paying attention to you anymore right?

http://www.forbes.com/sites/insertcoin/2011/12/23/the-great-sopa-conspiracy-theory/

While I’m not too sure about the conspiracy angle I found it surprising that most of the top supporters of SOPA were ten years ago distributing the software that people used to download copyrighted material.

http://www.pedestrian.tv/entertainment/news/anti-piracy-movie-ads-caught-using-pirated-music/60075.htm/

Not really news one way or the other on the outcome of SOPA, but it does you good to laugh. X3

But it does mean that the wind is blowing against SOPA, don’t forget.

He’s not the only one either, a lot of politicians are going against it too.

Someone like Romney, who goes whatever way the political winds blow to benefit himself, does not give me any hope on the outcome of this…

Ack. Cell phone double-post. XD

It will soon enough. Its becoming an election issue. Thanks to the efforts of reddit and some younger politicians who do pay attention to the internet several congressional candidates are campaigning as anti-sopa, as well as the republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney.

FOX, CBS, and the other big boys all support SOPA so they probably want to keep it out of the public eye… But it looks as if that may not be possible anymore.

It will soon enough. Its becoming an election issue. Thanks to the efforts of reddit and some younger politicians who do pay attention to the internet several congressional candidates are campaigning as anti-sopa, as well as the republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney.

FOX, CBS, and the other big boys all support SOPA so they probably want to keep it out of the public eye… But it looks as if that may not be possible anymore.

Something to think about. As I posted before this bill could make all privacy software illegal.

Wired.com Embeds With #Occupy and Anonymous

http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2011/10/quinn-norton-occupy/

http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2011/11/anonymous-101/all/1

http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2011/12/anonymous-101-part-deux/all/1

This bill never even made the main stream media, but hit #1 here thanks to the internet.