Internet Blacklist Back In Congress

Adrian Lopez writes "A bill giving the government the power to shut down Web sites that host materials that infringe copyright is making its way quietly through the lame-duck session of Congress, raising the ire of free-speech groups and prompting a group of academics to lobby against the effort. The Combating Online Infringement and Counterfeits Act (COICA) was introduced in Congress this fall by Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-VT). It would grant the federal government the power to block access to any Web domain that is found to host copyrighted material without permission."

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Re:In the land of the free

[spun]

I can't believe I have to keep explaining this. Thank government "Bomb throwing anarchists!" propaganda. Anarchism means "no rulers" (Archons in ancient Greek) not "no government" which would be written "anocracy." Libertarians never seem to understand the long history that preceded their little brand of anarchism.

If there was no government, what would keep the powerful of the world from sending goons to enslave you? Without congress and COICA, the corporations of the world would have nothing to stop them from stealing your stuff, and your freedom, and if you think you have the firepower to defend yourself when multi-billionaires gang up on you, you are an idiot.

If we were starting from a level playing field, getting rid of most government would be a wonderful idea. As it is, you will find people like the billionaire Koch brothers backing the idea of getting rid of government, much the way wolves might advocate getting rid of chicken coops, fences, and dogs. We need to level the playing field, then get rid of government. And government is the only thing we've got that can compete wit the power of said multibillionaires. After all, in a free democracy, government is us, and if it is NOT us, it is because WE let someone steal it from us, an WEhave the power to take it back.

Re:If you don't like him, then don't sing his prai

[spun]

You know what is childish? Thinking that the mainstream political philosophy is "I'm with the government and I want to hurt someone."

Re:hahaha

[operagost]

Mr. unity100, what you've just said is one of the most insanely idiotic things I have ever heard. At no point in your rambling, incoherent response were you even close to anything that could be considered a rational thought. Everyone on Slashdot is now dumber for having listened to it. I award you no karma points, and may God have mercy on your soul.

Re:Obama will not veto this.

[spun]

Nope, we control the White House and the Senate and most of the far right teabagger loonies lost big time. Just think, if it hadn't been for the teabaggers, I might actually have something to be butthurt over.

you dont know zit.

[unity100]

first

I want to see the central government exercise few powers, while the States hold most of the power, similar to how the modern EU operates.

eu has much more federal regulation and control over members than u.s. had at any point in time. to the extent of regulatory boards doing so much regulation that, they had made an april fools' joke at one year, publishing a regulation regulating the standards of the thickness of upper and lower chicken eggs.

the standards europe is living, is due to that regulation.

im appalled that, even eu, which is TOTALLY the opposite of what the right wing nutjobs in united states want, is being used to propagate the 'no government' bullshit. either ignorance, or outright lying.

False. A limited government is one that does not exercise any powers except those granted to it by the Constitution. That style of government worked just fine from 1776 to 1900 (approximately). There were a few excursions where the US Congress overstepped its bounds, such as the Sedition Act and the Fugitive Slave Act, but for the most part it worked.

constitution, 1776, 1900. the self indulgement of you americans is really sickening. its as if nothing happened outside your country, its as if there was no other experiments that were done and succeeded, you are taking your own history and trying to apply lessons from that to entire planet.

and you dont even know your own history. nothing worked fine from 1776 until 1900. until 1800, your country was a colonization ground, rushing to colonize lands in its west, totally isolated from the world. and, trade and business wasnt as big as it was now. regulation and government was not needed at all. after all people moved, and settled on distant lands if they wanted to, in land rushes. if you didnt like the situation in an area, you would migrate. it was as simple as that.

come 1850, things changed. colonization matured, it didnt become easy to just go to a distant land with a gun, make a log cabin, plow a piece of land and then live there. business grew big, companies and corporations became big, and by 1880, almost all america risked being owned by 4 people, and everyone had to live by THEIR rules. it was the failure of the free market bullshit - something devised for 1700s standards and world, in which businesses were 'whitteley&co' level, 5-10 people enterprises, and had only power to do stuff in their locale. it was the time of globe spanning corporations bigger than countries.

if it wasnt for 'big government' that manifested itself in the form of theodore roosevelt, you americans would be probably owned by at most 2, or even 1 person in 100 years' time, living however those 1-2 people wanted you to live, for their own benefit. and no, no competition happened. no other corporation came and undid them. there was no 'choice'. ALL the choice, competition you have there today have come with the antitrust regulations and laws. even they were offset a lot, by invention of proxy corporations, big holdings, and conglomerates that span 100s of companies and brands.

yet you come and STILL advocate the same bullshit that brought your country to that point.

moreover, you say that, eu is operating like united states in 1800s. despite the fact that, before ussr had disintegrated, the ussr external affairs had to retort that, they were trying to effect a socialist revolution in europe for that long, but, european union has basically done it themselves, from the inside, and it was a curious situation.

sorry, but you dont know shit. at least dont make that stupid retort saying 'eu is like u.s. in 1700s' anywhere else, like a moron.