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Bill Would Bar US Companies From Net Censorship

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the accountability-may-make-a-comeback-after-all dept.

Meredith writes "A bill that would penalize companies for assisting repressive regimes in censoring the Internet may finally be headed to a vote. The Global Online Freedom Act 'would not only prevent companies like Yahoo from giving up the goods to totalitarian regimes, but would also prohibit US-based Internet companies from blocking online content from US government or government-financed web sites in other countries.' Unfortunately, there's also a giant loophole: the president would be allowed to waive the provisions of the Act for national security purposes."

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  1. Re:So.... by calebt3 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    And the President can't claim ignorance when it happens.

  2. Re:National security more important than individua by Moofie · · Score: 5, Insightful

    "The Constitution doesn't apply to the world at large. It is by and for US citizens."

    Read it again. It is a list of things that the United States Federal Government is allowed to do, and enjoined from doing. It doesn't give anybody any rights...it enumerates specific rights (and an incomplete list of those rights) that the US Government is particularly not allowed to infringe.

    Not "citizens".
    Not "non-terrorists".

    Everybody.

    (well, that's the way it was designed, anyhow...)

    --
    Why yes, I AM a rocket scientist!