We must stop SOPA -UPDATE SOPA and PIPA postponed indefinitely

[Ashtanga]

[Daryll748]

Indeed, thats how I feel right now...

[Sunflowers]

It's like living in North Korea. Wouldn't have expected that from the US. I don't even live there.
Worst thing for the community here is that we lost a lot of good uploads which were all ok to share.

[CaptainEoLove85]

Another thing to be worried about

[cinzia]

Thank you CaptainEoLove85 for posting that video. We need to hear more about this!

This is mega times worse than SOPA and PIPA. Did some looking briefly now and found this :http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/0.../-What-is-ACTA and this: http://www.stopacta.info/about

What is ACTA?
Since Spring 2008, the European Union, the United States, Japan, Canada, South Korea, Australia as well as a few other countries have been secretly negotiating a trade agreement aimed at enforcing copyright and tackling counterfeited goods (Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement). Specifically, leaked documents show that one of the major goal of the treaty is to force signatory countries into implementing anti file-sharing policies under the form of three-strikes schemes and net filtering practices.
At a time when important debates are taking place on the need to adapt copyright to the digital age, this treaty would bypass democratic processes in order to enforce a fundamentally irrelevant regulatory regime. It would profoundly alter the very nature of the Internet as we know it by putting an end to Net neutrality.

This is horrible news! If I understand it correctly, among other things, it would mean your ISP would monitor what you look at or download and could result in one's internet connection being severed! And it's all being done IN SECRET! The potential for control of the internet is enormous. Not to mention loss of privacy....

[MrPhillip]

SOPA will kill all!

[8701girl]

You could get up to 5 years for uploading a Michael Jackson under SOPA, one year more than the man who killed him. This is truely sad.

Its disgusting

[Sunflowers]

I read that the Anonomys group hacked a lot of websites and that the proposal from SOPA has been dropped. Anyone has any news on that?

[Krshna28]

Another thing to be worried about

Oh no......not more..........


This was never about censorship.........this is control, plain and simple!!!!!!!


The fact that none of us ever get a say in these laws is proof that democracy never existed!!!!!!

We vote for a new leader, but they never listen to their voters.......more often they always go against their promises!!!

[cinzia]

I don't understand why there is no coverage of this in any of the media? This is not about any one country, this is has global implications!

From Wiki:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-Co...rade_Agreement

Opponents have argued that the treaty will restrict fundamental civil and digital rights, including the freedom of expression and communication privacy.[7] "The bulk of the WTO's 153 members" have raised concerns that treaty could distort trade and goes beyond the existing Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights.[8] Opponents also criticize ACTA's removal of "legal safeguards that protect Internet Service Providers from liability for the actions of their subscribers" in effect giving ISPs no option but to comply with privacy invasions.[9] According to an analysis by the Free Software Foundation, ACTA would require that existing ISPs no longer host free software that can access copyrighted media, and DRM-protected media would not be legally playable with free or open source software.[10]...
The final text was released on 15 November 2010,[20] with English, French, and Spanish published on April 15, 2011.[21] A signing ceremony was held on 1 October 2011 in Tokyo, with the United States, Australia, Canada, Japan, Morocco, New Zealand, Singapore, and South Korea signing the treaty. The European Union, Mexico, and Switzerland attended but did not sign, professing support and saying they will do so in the future.[22][23] Article 39 of ACTA states countries can sign the treaty until 31 March 2013. European Parliament reportedly has the final decision over whether the treaty is dismissed or enacted.[24]
Poland announced on January 19 that it will sign the treaty on January 26, 2012.[25] A number of Polish government websites, including that of the President and Polish Parliament, were shut down by denial of service attacks that started January 21, akin to protests against SOPA and PIPA that had happened two days previous.[26][27]

With all the uproar over SOPA and PIPA, how did this get a free pass?

[Ben]

This was never about censorship.........this is control, plain and simple!!!!!!!

The fact that none of us ever get a say in these laws is proof that democracy never existed!!!!!!

The internet is the only place where you can find real information about what's going on, and what our governments truly do. The media have stopped being the 4th power a long time ago to to join the partnership between politicians and multinational companies.

The rule is simple : keep them scared, keep them ignorant, keep them entertained. Cheap, easy and so efficient that the vast majority of western countries have started using this first american recipe. And it's spreading like plague.

IMO all this is not only about money. The Arab spring and the part that the internet played in it have a lot to do with this.

Is it a democracy when people are kept deliberately kept in the dark/uneducated?

[Krshna28]

Seems like the 2012 doom prophecy was wrong:


2012 is the End Of The Internet!!!!

[Ben]

Or, it will be the end of the world as we know it, which is actually the prediction in several civilizations ie the Mayan calendar (which never talked abt Armageddon)? Maybe because the people will realize they have left the wheel to others for too long, and have been manipulated.
Maybe it's the beginning of a global awakening? Maybe we'll create a brand new world? There are other options than communism or liberalism...

"Imagine" sang someone...

[CaptainEoLove85]

I believe we have the power to create our own future if we really want to. The question is does everyone want to?

[Ben]

There're the things you can do about yourself, and your own life. And then there are things on a larger scale, how the world works as a whole. That's what we should work on now, first and foremost. I believe the first part would be much easier to work on.