SOPA and PIPA.

[leavemetogetonwithit]

These are potential Intellectual Property and copyright bills going through US Senate.
Wikipaedia has shut itself down all day today as a protest to raise awareness of the threat to freedom. It might not affect UKW at the moment, it might never affect it, but it would be good to understand whether it is a potential threat and to consider supporting the anti- campaign now, as what happens in USA usually turns up here shortly after.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:SOPA_initiative/Learn_more
Mike

[kwatt]

Re: SOPA and PIPA.

I am aware. 😉

K.

[loopey]

Re: SOPA and PIPA.

Thank youleavemetogetonwithit , it’s great to see backing such a worth cause!

This is just.. well, what do you get when you cross an overzealous lawmaker with buddys who have billions of dollars to gain.

In a nutshell, here’s what the law would do:

•Assign liability to site owners for everything users post, without consideration for whether or not the user posted without permission. Site owners could face jail time or heavy fines, and DNS blacklisting.
•It would require web services like YouTube, Facebook, and Twitter to monitor and aggressively filter everything all users upload.
•It would deny site owners due process of law, by initiating a DNS blacklisting based solely on a good faith assertion by an individual copyright or intellectual property owner.
•It would give the U.S. government the power to selectively censor the web using techniques similar to those used in China, Malaysia and Iran. The Great Firewall of China is an example of this type of embedded, infrastructural internet censorship.
[source: Tomshardware Guide]

In short: Internet Censorship.

its up to you to vote lol http://americancensorship.org/

[leavemetogetonwithit]

Re: SOPA and PIPA.

Very useful link there, loop. :tup: Will sign that petition. Was wondering who to email in the UK gov. Haig maybe?
Mike.

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