(ii)against any entity that knowingly and willfully provides or offers to provide a product or service designed or marketed by such entity or by another in concert with such entity for the circumvention or bypassing of measures described in paragraph (2) [blocking DNS responses, search query results, payments, or ads] and taken in response to a court order issued under this subsection, to enjoin such entity from interfering with the order by continuing to provide or offer to provide such product or service. § 102©(3)(A)(ii)

http://wendy.seltzer.org/blog/archives/2011/12/15/stopping-sopas-anti-circumvention.html

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?

Stopping SOPA’s Anti-Circumvention

Here, I analyze just one of the problematic provisions of SOPA: a new”anticircumvention” provision (different from the still-problematic anti-circumvention of section1201). SOPA’s anticircumvention authorizes injunctions against the provision of tools to bypass the court-ordered blocking of domains. Although it is apparently aimed at MAFIAAfire, the Firefox add-on that offered redirection for seized domains in the wake of ICE seizures,¹ the provision as drafted sweeps much more broadly. Ordinary security and connectivity tools could fall within its scope. If enacted, it would weaken Internet security and reduce the robustness and resilience of Internet connections.

I decided that I should spend some more time on this bill since there has been little talk of the true implications of it on this site, and it gets many views here.

For those viewers that may not be aware, privacy online and thus your offline life as well is basically non existent now unless you take many precautions to protect it, many including software this bill would make illegal in the US.

The real threat of this bill is that it would give the government the authority to basically erect a great firewall like China has, and make all software that is capable of bypassing it illegal.

Some may argue that the wording of the bill only allows this or that, but we have already seen secret interpretations used with existing laws that have little to do with the clear intent in the actual wording of the law.

I will post some articles that explain more.

Do they even check this site to see what the public wants???

Yes; The FCC can easily regulate “the Internet” because ALL ISPs in the United States will either cooperate, be fined out of existence, or be criminals. All wire requests for data will be monitored by the FCC. Requests are already stored by all ISPs for months. Regulation by the FCC will change internet wire communications forever regardless of where you live because sites prohibited from display by the FCC will quickly wither away whether a single new bill passes or doesn’t.

PROOF? Watch Wikileaks.ch or dot-whatever now disappear without a single bill.

Your VPN or privacy software is utterly useless because they are all connected physically somewhere to the wire called the Internet.
Software can’t change an IP but only helps select proxy servers. The energy is still transmitted by regulated wires.

Sorry for the double post :(

You grossly underestimate the People Mr Neeley!

After a while you even learn who some are by when they are here, and what they say.

If this sounds like bribery to you, you’re not alone. Sign this official White House petition to investigate this act of blatant bribery.

But even if SOPA and PIPA are really dead (which they definitely are not), while we focused all of our attention on them, at least two other bills are being pushed that are as bad if not worse. ACTA (which is actually a treaty, not a bill), and PCIP.

ACTA

ACTA stands for “Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement” (wikipedia article).
I’ll let this video explain what ACTA does. (see link)

The worst part is, for years the text of the treaty has been kept secret. According to the wiki article:

“Both the Bush administration and the Obama administration had rejected requests to make the text of ACTA public, with the White House saying that disclosure would cause ‘damage to the national security.’”
Despicable.

SOPA is dead. Long live SOPA!

So it looks like SOPA and PIPA have both been shelved, for now. Bloggers and forum-goers around the internet are celebrating victory. While the anti-SOPA movement these past few months has been historic and unprecedented, the time to claim victory has not yet come and likely never will. Bad bills like SOPA/PIPA have a way of coming back from the grave. Often times, they are grafted on to other unrelated bills and pushed through with minimal attention. Even if SOPA and PIPA don’t come back, the scumbags who wrote them are still in office (this REALLY needs to change come November) and they areguaranteed to write similar bills in the future. Big Entertainment lobbyists paid a lot of money to buy politicians, and they aren’t happy that they haven’t gotten what they paid for. In fact, the MPAA is overtly threatening to stop giving money to politicians who went against their wishes.

I have been around here for a few years, and learned quite a few things…

If you watch the view counter here it always drops way off when Congress is on vacation, and goes way up on hot political topics in the media…

kdizzle. you can record the internet for instance..

www.waaf.com

Listen now.

Open sound recorder.

Set recording device to “What You Hear”

Hit record.

save mp3

PCIP

For more info on PCIP, check open its page on OpenCongress

PCIP stands for “The Protect Children from Internet Pornographers Act of 2011.” It was introduced by, surprise surprise, Lamar Smith, the same scumbag who introduced SOPA. Why is he so persistent you ask? Well, according to OpenCongress.org, the largest portion of Lamar Smith’s campaign contributions come from the TV/Movies/Music industry. He’s not really passionate about this issue he’s just been bribed. Sorry, people of Texas district 21, but your Congressman has been bought and no longer represents you…

So yes, we should take a moment to pat ourselves on the back for what we were able to spontaneously do to “stop” SOPA/PIPA. But don’t think that the fight is over. The fight will never be over. SOPA/PIPA have just been stalled temporarily. And even if they never come back, there are already bills that are just as bad, or worse, right around the corner. ACTA has been around since the Bush years. PCIP has been around since May and hardly anyone has known or cared (including myself). We can’t let this momentum die. Luckily we didn’t need to wait very long for the next bad bill to go through to rile us up again. Let’s just hope we weren’t too late like we were with the Indefinite Detention Bill (NDAA).

http://donttreadonmike.com/2012/01/21/sopa-is-dead-long-live-sopa/

If this sounds like bribery to you, you’re not alone. Sign this official White House petition to investigate this act of blatant bribery.

But even if SOPA and PIPA are really dead (which they definitely are not), while we focused all of our attention on them, at least two other bills are being pushed that are as bad if not worse. ACTA (which is actually a treaty, not a bill), and PCIP.

ACTA

ACTA stands for “Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement” (wikipedia article).
I’ll let this video explain what ACTA does. (see link)

The worst part is, for years the text of the treaty has been kept secret. According to the wiki article:

“Both the Bush administration and the Obama administration had rejected requests to make the text of ACTA public, with the White House saying that disclosure would cause ‘damage to the national security.’”

Despicable.

What I saw happen with SOPA and PIPA gave me new hope that We The People can fight back against huge money. People online shutdown those bills that had big bipartisan support, and huge corporate and money support.

What started with just a few sites and a few people turned into a movement that became over 7000 sites and countless people that convinced former supporters of the bills to drop their support or pay the consequences…

It became a movement that stopped Congress, and all those paying them millions to pass the bills, dead in their tracks.

I think we will be seeing more of that in the near future.

Internet wire communications users think these bills needed to be passed to work. SCOTUS ruled the Berne Convention selected by Congress in 1994 is the authority on copy[rites] and ruled this constitutional and not disturbing free speech or anything else. See Golan v Holder, (10-545)

p12 REPLY BRIEF <<<<

“3. The sweeping international impact of this case will, no doubt, require further consideration of the relevant issues but several factual issues will require trial. The Supreme Court will eventually be faced with requiring wire communications disguised as the Internet to be regulated by the FCC. This injunctive relief requested currently from the Eighth Circuit will, in fact, increase the Free Speech nature of wire communications as well as making wire communications more internationally accessible.”

With SOPA Shelved, Congress Readies its Next Attack on the Internet

One of the things that became clear in Congress’ push to pass Hollywood’s web censorship bills is that powerful corporations and the federal government do not want the rule of law to apply on the internet. The attitude that our basic freedoms and legal protections are somehow not valid on the internet is partly just the kind of reaction you would expect from entrenched powers whenever new technologies emerge, but it’s also a response to the particular peer-to-peer features of the internet that threaten to make their key sources of power — control of information flow — less relevant.

http://www.opencongress.org/articles/view/2475-With-SOPA-Shelved-Congress-Readies-its-Next-Attack-on-the-Internet

I never said you should try to hide Mr Neeley…

Who would you try to hide from anyways?

Reno v ACLU partially set the CDA aside but four of those Justices have since retired. The Justices were too old to understand internet wire communications and most today still are. Most humans over 40 are as well. The Justice who wrote the Reno v ACLU opinion was 25 when the US bombed Hiroshima with the first nuclear bomb at the end of WWII and 48 when man first walked on the moon.

It is obviously PAST time for regulation of internet and cable TV wire and radio communications as already required by law.
It might not happen while I am alive but it will occur soon.

I already rejected offers of more money than ALL OF YOU HAVE COMBINED.
THIS IS NOT ABOUT MONEY FOR ME.

The need to censor internet wire communications is not secret but maybe I should shut-up and hide?
I will not post anything else here. Protest and call Congress all you want.

Reno v ACLU was written by Honorable John Paul Stephens. At the time of his retirement, he was the oldest member of the Court and the third-longest serving justice in the Court’s history.. He was twenty-five when the first nuclear bomb was dropped. I am sure the Internet was a mysterious “unique and wholly new medium” for him. He and four of the other confused old men/women grew up with no internet and agreed with him and felt the internet was mysterious but have now retired also. The court today still grew up with no internet but internet wire communications are not so new now.
http://open.salon.com.blog….letter <<< See why its almost over.

Anonymous And The War Over The Internet

Late in the afternoon of Jan. 19, the U.S. Department of Justice website vanished from the Internet. Anyone attempting to visit it to report a crime or submit a complaint received a message saying the site was unable to load. More websites disappeared in rapid succession. The Recording Industry Association of America. The Motion Picture Association of America. Universal Music. Warner Brothers. The FBI…

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/01/30/anonymous-internet-war_n_1233977.html