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US Senate Committee Passes PROTECT IP Act

Posted by timothy on from the kill-first-ask-questions-later dept.

angry tapir writes "A US Senate committee has unanimously approved a controversial bill that would allow the US Department of Justice to seek court orders requiring search engines and Internet service providers to stop sending traffic to websites accused of infringing copyright."

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  1. Fear Not, Citizens of The Free World! by fuzzyfuzzyfungus · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Unlike the Nefarious 'Great Firewall of China', a hated symbol of communist repression, the "PROTECT-IP" act will be entirely in English, and promises to be a tool of crony-capitalist repression!

    1. Re:Fear Not, Citizens of The Free World! by elrous0 · · Score: 4, Insightful

      Apples and Oranges. In China the government decides who gets blocked. In the U.S., the government AND the corporations will decide.

      So see, that's a lot better...right?

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    2. Re:Fear Not, Citizens of The Free World! by pipatron · · Score: 5, Insightful

      Well, in China, the government owns the corporations. In the US it's the other way around.

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  2. the internet and the govt by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    The internet was better off before the legal and judicial systems were even aware of it.

    The boffins at DARPA came up with it, and for decades, all was well - from the 70's up until the mid 90's at least. It succeeded beyond anyone's wildest dreams *because* no one was in control of it. It was an anarchy. If you don't want to see something, don't look, and if you do, then do.

    It will die in practice because of people who, for one reason or another, think they have the right to tell other people what they can and cannot do.

  3. Upgrade network infrastructure by Gannimo · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Well, this calls for decentralized DNS and some tor like network overlay...

  4. Prohibition by KillaGouge · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Does the government not remember how well prohibition went? Have they not learned that by making something illegal they are only going to push more people to to figure out ways around it.

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    1. Re:Prohibition by denis-The-menace · · Score: 4, Insightful

      It worked so well for drugs they decided to try it on personal freedom that you now get groped and you can't say shit.

      This goes after online communications.

      Soon they will be tapping every phone and steaming open every letter and parcel.

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  5. Re:Rubber stamp by scharkalvin · · Score: 5, Insightful

    It should require MORE than a court order. It should require a conviction in the traffic of copyrighted material in violation of the copyright act before a site can be black listed. Being accused of such should NOT be enough.

  6. Re:Goodbye thepiratebay.org by johanw · · Score: 5, Insightful

    This may also explain why Google and Mozilla plan on removing the browser URL field. It prevents more people from being able to go anywhere where the mighty Google or it's countries junta doesn's point us to.

  7. Search engine over HTTPS without logs of any kind by thijsh · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Search engine over HTTPS without logs of any kind (like Duckduckgo). This way they can't prove the search engine sent the user to the "worst of the worst" site... You still need alternate DNS and/or proxy/VPN to get to the site, but at least sites can still be found with search engines.

    What surprises me here is that they want to block the "worst of the worst" and they haven't even mentioned the tired old kiddie porn angle... that is certainly worse than anything! The only way they could surprise me more is by being so honest as naming the future targets: all sites opposing corporations in any way and all sites that spread generic 'anti-american' messages (a.k.a. terrorists). Wikileaks will be one of the first of the sites we know that will be blocked like this... all such sites after that will not even be known to anyone when they are blocked, not listed in searches and not mentioned in media.

    Doubleplus goodmove Minitrue!!!