[QUOTE=gman003-main;26141977]Misleading title. It made it through a committee in the Senate, which is 19 people (split 12/7 between Democrats and Republicans). It hasn't even been brought before the Senate yet. Then (for those non-Americans and Americans not familiar with the process) it has to be voted on by the House of Representatives, and then finally has to be approved by the President. I foresee major obstacles in even getting the Senate to pass it, let alone the Republican-dominated House.[/QUOTE]
Extremely mis-leading title.
Well FP is fucked
I can see, if this passes, Wikileaks, Fox New's website, Youtube, Facebook, and a whole bunch of other sites in jeopardy if this somehow gets through.
Hmm. But it won't target the people who download them?
[QUOTE=gman003-main;26143203]admittedly odd system[/QUOTE]
makes perfect sense to me, it's better than britain's system
1 house of elected representatives that has 90% of the power
1 house of unelected aristocrats who can stall laws if they feel like it
1 queen who does basically nothing but suck up money and gives the PM advice (and occasionally can stop laws)
a system where scotland and wales have separate laws to england in some cases
and we're constantly on the fence over adopting eu legislation
Fuck sake, stupid cunts don't even know anything about the internet or how it works. Why the fuck do they get to have a say if they don't understand the technologies involved?
The current state of "democracy" is rather hilarious.
If this is democracy, fuck democracy.
[quote]COICA does have some supporters, (in addition to sponsor Sen. Pat Leahy (D-Vermont)) and his 17 co-sponsors including Schumer, Specter, Grassley, Gillibrand, Hatch, Kobuchar, Coburn, Durbin, Feinstein, Menendez and Whitehouse.)[/quote]
who else? usual cast of idiot politicians are involved.
Ugh, they're probably gonna abuse the fuck out of this and make bullshit excuses for most of the sites. Wouldn't be surprised if they tried to censor Wikileaks because it has a copyrighted font on it or something.
Just the usual, our government favoring big corporations over rights.
oh fuck oh fuck their gonna take my video games away
[QUOTE=Hesychasmos;26144698]oh fuck oh fuck their gonna take my video games away[/QUOTE]
oh fuck not the games
Something else: I have a feeling this will mainly be used against foreign-hosted sites, as any American with a GED can tell you why this is unconstitutional. I myself can point to Amendments IV, V, VI, and maybe VII that would get any such law thrown out in court. Due to a peculiarity of American law, laws cannot be declared unconstitutional until a case has been brought before the courts. So, then, the law would be used mainly against foreign sites, who would be less likely to try to sue the federal government over it.
what effect would this have on canada?
[QUOTE=tehperzon;26145263]what effect would this have on canada?[/QUOTE]
Expect a revolution to your south soon.
the bill didnt pass through the senate. the thread title is a lie to get people's panties in a bunch.
[url]http://www.govtrack.us/congress/bill.xpd?bill=s111-3804[/url]
the bill was introduced by a 70 year old democrat
"WHAT IS THIS NEW FANGLED TECHNOLOGY SONNY YOU CALL IT A "COMPUTER"? "
[QUOTE=Wii60;26141749]Oh well, Dead drops are gunna be very popular now:[U]
[url]http://deaddrops.com/[/url]
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This is pretty fuckin awesome. Kinda useless unless you have a laptop though.
[QUOTE=tehperzon;26145263]what effect would this have on canada?[/QUOTE]
Well, any sites you want to access from the USA that are shut down, you won't be able to get to anymore.
Duh.
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