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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. Instead of complaints, we need answers by countertrolling · · Score: 5, Interesting

    1) How do we route around this damage?

    2) How do we protect our natural rights from a majority that votes them away?

    Let's stop focusing on the distractions of greed and corruption and the psychopaths in positions of power and get to finding real solutions to render all of that irrelevant.

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    1. Re:Instead of complaints, we need answers by lxs · · Score: 5, Interesting

      Bye bye Google, hello search engines based outside of the US.

  2. Official answer: thoughtcrime by Errol+backfiring · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Under DMCA, freenet and tor are probably "circumvention devices". So you are guilty of wanting free speech.

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