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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In the land of the free

[unity100]

the freemen with the most money make the rules. yet, there are still a lot of ayn randists who would still attempt selling free market/capitalist bullshit to us :

money is power. if you allow any individual or group to gain more money than others, you practically give the power in their hands. no amount of 'equality' legislation in the political arena, can offset this economic power; the one with the gold makes the rule.

Re:Obama will not veto this.

[Anonymous Coward]

And yet not a single one of the Republicans in the Senate will probably vote against it either despite the fact that they could block this from ever passing.

A race to the bottom against Islamic states

[mykos]

Islamic morality says that porn is evil.

American morality says that sharing the ideas of others is evil.

Re:bullshit

[unity100]

limited government is as 'none' as no government. in a limited government, private corporations would fulfill the rendering of critical goods and services, giving the power over these critical facets of life into their hands. this is what private interests exactly want, since it is the closest situation to feudalism.

they will make the people, public spend funds for military, police, enforcement, saving them headaches of paying for them, also averting the risk of rebellions and revolutions, and still govern all aspects of life outside these with their financial dominance. actually, they already do that.

Re:Obama will not veto this.

[Dishevel]

Hope has always been negative. People are just for the most part to stupid to realize it.

Hope is for losers that gave up. I fucking PLAN!