Slashdot Mirror
Senate Bill to Subsidize Anti-Censorware Research
Senators Wyden (D-Ore.) and Kyl (R-Ariz.) introduced the
Global Internet Freedom Act
earlier this month, setting aside $60 million over two years "to develop and deploy technologies to defeat Internet jamming and censorship." Of course they don't mean libraries and schools in this country -- they're talking about countries like China, as Kyl et al. explain in a
National Review article
a few days ago. I guess it wasn't confusing enough to
(1) subsidize censorware
and
(2) criminalize researching it
-- we also need to (3) subsidize researching it. How about forbidding American corporations from trading censorware goods or services to these "repressive governments," wouldn't that be a good start?
Update: 10/30 03:37 GMT by J : Here's the
Wired story
from early this month on the version that was introduced in the House.
(Sen. Wyden also teamed up last month with Sen. Cox (R-Calif.) on a little bitty resolution standing up for your fair use rights before the tank parade of the DMCA.)
http://quiz.ravenblack.net/blood.pl?3331888710
What is the opposite of progress ? Congress!
No text.
I like this site. Dont censor this post! ;) ;p
No better way to preserve freedom than to FORBID American corporations to sell a product ...
What is this intarweb of which you speak?
I jerk off to computer porn almost everyday. Porn is beautiful, denoucing it is a sin
Bwaha.. Browsing at -1, and what do I see but one of my very own foes, who has (in an attempt to boost his rating) made me (and all others who have him marked as an enemy) a friend.
Too bad that most of us don't see any reason to give our fans a bonus, eh?
(I feel like a star! Even the trolls love me!)
Putting the Internet rhetoric aside for a second, let me ask you a question. How would you like a hard-core pornography store opened up next to where you live? Or better yet, what percentage of Americans would like hard-core pornography stores opened up where they live? Probably not very many people considering current zoning laws. You don't have to be an "evil right-wing Christian" to dislike the idea either. The regulation of porn was judged constitutional years ago.
So it is not a stretch of the imagination to think that people would not want a hard-core pornography store in their public library. I want to be able to use the library and have my kids use the library. I don't want a bunch of seedy people who could give a crap viewing porn on the library computers and jacking-off under their coats. Especially since I am paying for those computers!
Which is a second point to make in this case. The taxpayers pay for those computers. Therefore the taxpayers through their elected officials should have some say in how those computers are used. I'm sick of these librarians acting as if they solely own the library. If you want porn, buy your own computer and view porn there.
Of course censorware is not perfect. Far from it. But it will improve in research, and until then you can just a librarian assistant walk around every now and then and/or have a librarian available to take complaints.
Brian Ellenberger
get cheaper auto insurance?
g i
I'm a shitty driver.
Da Psycho, desperately seeking a rich male to pay my auto insurance
and big time fan of
http://www.askheartbeat.com/cgibin/ultimatebb.c
You forgot:
bitch (n.): A female canine animal, especially a dog.
Yeah.. fuck those female dogs...
um.. that came out wrong.
that they'd censor my prison record!
b b.cgi
Osiris the dickless
check out the coolest site on the net!
http://www.askheartbeat.com/cgibin/ultimate
go away.
I am calling for a boycott of Michael Sims, America's number one enemy in the fight against anti-anti-censorware, until he gives me an apology for his rampant goatse'ing and usurping of the Censorware Project , my pride and joy.
Frankly, I'm shocked that I am not revered by all of Slashdot. My contributions to the world of anti-censorware research are comparable to the contributions of Jesus Christ to the field of religion. I won more awards from that project than Michael won in his whole damned life.
Do not underestimate me. I will be heard.
Though this message is posted anonymously, I will attest to it and verify it if needed. Other message posted by similar-looking accounts, or not attested, are frauds. - Seth Finklestein, uid#90154
groupthink is of course abominable, but don't you think a bill such as this could be a tremendous help to counter those "scary" national-security provisions?
Hell, that dark-skinned neighbor of yours might be jailed for making a phone call in Arabic, but at least you would be able to access www.ihatefinancialplanning.com from Guam, Saipan, and the Arcane Dictatorship of the North Pole!
hi, I like pancakes -.-- -.-- --..