Stop Censorship Banner

[Moka]

Lawl, I added it. I usually stay neutral but if this bill passes, many many sites could be permanently shut down, including this one. This is a really big deal if it gets passed. I doubt it will, though.

[Ultra Fox]

Unless no one in Congress has any respect for Human Rights, they won't pass this bill.

But, good to warn people just in case, I guess.

[DGFone]

There is always the supreme court. And unless it doesn't do what it's supposed to, as per the constitution, both bills will get the constitutional banhammer.

[Tabby]

I just think the censure banner stuff is really kewl

[VitaniOutsider]

It would be horrible if it happened!

[KopaLeo]

I am having a very bad experience concerning sensorship RIGHT NOW. The government of the country I currently live in has a colossal internet fierwal to prevent any unwanted websites from being visited. I can't visit Youtjbue, or Google Docs, or Google Cached, and if I accidentally click any censored website, my connection to Google would instantly fail for about 1 minute. I'm trying to break through the wall using prooxy to visit Yoitube, but it was so slow! I intended to misspell certain words in case the wall detect too many sensorable words. For the forums here are all armed with such detectors, and posts with sensored words can't be posted. (unless misspelled)

" SOPA also would allow the government to ask ISPs to use DNS blocking, filtering and other "feasible and reasonable" methods to cut off access to foreign infringing websites from the U.S. It would let the government order search engine companies like Google to disable links to infringing sites in search engine results and ask payment providers to stop services to targeted sites. Foreign sites subject to such actions are those that would have been liable for criminal prosecution in the U.S if the site were based in the U.S."

I gasp at the similarities of this and GFW, absolutely abhoring such atrocity. That sounds so unAmerican!

[SnowyCheetah]

[quote="KopaLeo"]I am having a very bad experience concerning sensorship RIGHT NOW. The government of the country I currently live in has a colossal internet fierwal to prevent any unwanted websites from being visited. I can't visit Youtjbue, or Google Docs, or Google Cached, and if I accidentally click any censored website, my connection to Google would instantly fail for about 1 minute. I'm trying to break through the wall using prooxy to visit Yoitube, but it was so slow! I intended to misspell certain words in case the wall detect too many sensorable words. For the forums here are all armed with such detectors, and posts with sensored words can't be posted. (unless misspelled)

" SOPA also would allow the government to ask ISPs to use DNS blocking, filtering and other "feasible and reasonable" methods to cut off access to foreign infringing websites from the U.S. It would let the government order search engine companies like Google to disable links to infringing sites in search engine results and ask payment providers to stop services to targeted sites. Foreign sites subject to such actions are those that would have been liable for criminal prosecution in the U.S if the site were based in the U.S."

I gasp at the similarities of this and GFW, absolutely abhoring such atrocity. That sounds so unAmerican![/quote]

You're absolutely right. I've seen the kind of filtering they use in countries such as yours and I would have thought the US was above letting it get to that point. Some of the people in our government, however, are not.

[MuddyMufasa]

Sorry for sounding stupid, but what does that whole "stop censorship" banner thing even mean? And what happens if you click the link?

[DGFone]

^ It's about two bills introduced in the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives. If even one of them passes, a "Firewall of The U.S." will be created that will hyper-censor the internet within the states, and therefore, the entire world.

The banner is a mark of protest against these bills. One has already failed, but there is still the other one. So until both are killed off, the internet will be full off these "stop censorship" banners on websites that have a risk of getting censored by either one of the bills. Yeah, if MLK is at risk, imagine how bad the bills have to be.

[KopaLeo]

Firewall in U.S.? This would be intolerable. The Great Fire Wall is bad enough. To get over it, I had to use proxy software made by anti-government organizations, whose propaganda I despise. These organizations fight against the censorship because their propaganda is censored. If the FUS is erected, I wonder, would everyone have to depend on Taliban and Al Qaeda like I depend on anti-government people for Internet freedom?