Stop the Internet "Blacklist" Legislation ('S.O.P.A.' bill)
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I think Raigake-sama would vociferously oppose to SOPA, he ll send all those madmen in a jar and POP' =D.
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iMoloko wrote...
davebloodstorm wrote...
Too bad we lost megaupload in the fight for anti-piracy...............Megaupload you shall be missed.........................A pricy sacrifice. TT ^TT
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Gravity cat
the adequately amused
No internet dictatorship for another decade. Even the ESA withdrew support.
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Call me cynical, but I think this gives the US 2-3 years tops. Shelved does not mean abandoned. Next time they just won't go (as) public about signing it.
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iMoloko wrote...
via Tiffany Cheng of FightfortheFuture. Hi everyone!
A big hurrah to you!!!!! We’ve won for now -- SOPA and PIPA were dropped by Congress today -- the votes we’ve been scrambling to mobilize against have been cancelled.
The largest online protest in history has fundamentally changed the game. You were heard.
On January 18th, 13 million of us took the time to tell Congress to protect free speech rights on the internet. Hundreds of millions, maybe a billion, people all around the world saw what we did on Wednesday. See the amazing numbers here and tell everyone what you did.
This was unprecedented. Your activism may have changed the way people fight for the public interest and basic rights forever.
The MPAA (the lobby for big movie studios which created these terrible bills) was shocked and seemingly humbled. “†˜This was a whole new different game all of a sudden,’ MPAA Chairman and former Senator Chris Dodd told the New York Times. †˜[PIPA and SOPA were] considered by many to be a slam dunk.’”
“'This is altogether a new effect,' Mr. Dodd said, comparing the online movement to the Arab Spring. He could not remember seeing 'an effort that was moving with this degree of support change this dramatically' in the last four decades, he added."
Tweet with us, shout on the internet with us, let's celebrate: Round of applause to the 13 million people who stood up - #PIPA and #SOPA are tabled 4 now. #13millionapplause
We're indebted to everyone who helped in the beginning of this movement -- you, and all the sites that went out on a limb to protest in November -- Boing Boing and Mozilla Foundation (and thank you Tumblr, 4chan)! And the grassroots groups -- Public Knowledge, Electronic Frontier Foundation, Demand Progress, CDT, and many more.
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FELLOW FAKKU-ERS! TONIGHT WE PARTY BY TORRENTING EVERY SEASON OF EVERY SHOW.
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As Flaser Said early in the thread, This isnt over. Until a side retains victory and laws are made that fully determine who can do what, their will always be an argument on the topic.
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say what! wrote...
iMoloko wrote...
say what! wrote...
Oh look another SOPA thread I think this is like the 7 now.Oh look! You said something I literally said in the topic's name!
Oh look you created another SOPA thread when you could have posted the information in an already existing thread.
Oh look, you upped your post count when you could have shut the fuck up. :D
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edibleghost wrote...
say what! wrote...
iMoloko wrote...
say what! wrote...
Oh look another SOPA thread I think this is like the 7 now.Oh look! You said something I literally said in the topic's name!
Oh look you created another SOPA thread when you could have posted the information in an already existing thread.
Oh look, you upped your post count when you could have shut the fuck up. :D
Ok it was my opinion that there was an abundance of sopa threads and I don't care about rep.
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say what! wrote...
Ok it was my opinion that there was an abundance of sopa threads and I don't care about rep.
Lol it's k bro, I don't care about your rep either, that's why I took it away.
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edibleghost wrote...
say what! wrote...
Ok it was my opinion that there was an abundance of sopa threads and I don't care about rep.
Lol it's k bro, I don't care about your rep either, that's why I took it away.
good for you :)
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this is not something honorable like protecting freedom of speech, although it may suit us to pretend so. I hate to be "that guy" but we all just want to keep getting our free shit for free. Take the morale high ground if you must, I just say "it is what it is." And I love free porn.
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Okay, this is kind of irrelevant but it kind of agitates me that this thread has 12 pages while the Wall Street protests had a significantly fewer page count.
I guess it's everything wrong with modern society today summed up in a curve ball.
I guess it's everything wrong with modern society today summed up in a curve ball.
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edibleghost wrote...
say what! wrote...
Ok it was my opinion that there was an abundance of sopa threads and I don't care about rep.
Lol it's k bro, I don't care about your rep either, that's why I took it away.
Almost spat out water laughing.
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Fakku is safe, unless some Japanese hentai publishers decide to sue Fakku (which is based in the USA). Fakku has a strict rule against USA-licensed content.
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I sure hope fakku is safe. Sure Fakku is a site with Japanese content, only based in US. But megaupload's headquarter isn't in US either, and it still got taken down. I feeling doubtful of how I watch anime.. I haven't experience the setback completely yet but not just anime, music, manga, games, and even information would probably be inaccessible. God, future is bleak, 2012.. indeed the end of the world...
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Wow that certainly is informative. However too long for me to comprehend fully. So this means that SOPA is already reaching its grasp on Spain? Ugh.. I sure hope they don't reach Japan. Get all the countries but not my Japan.
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I just wanted to leave this little article about SOPA/PIPA being shelved.
http://searchenginewatch.com/article/2140751/SOPA-PIPA-On-Hold-But-a-New-Threat-on-Horizon
Especially for this nugget regarding the Child Protection/Data Retention bill:
"This bill is not about crimes against children. That’s just window dressing designed to push through an Orwellian law that would see all citizens monitored and their activities recorded, at the expense of ISPs. U.S. law already allows the collection of IP addresses when a person is suspected of a crime, and this law extends far beyond use in crimes against children. To be clear, the report states, “The Committee rejected an amendment to limit access to IP address data to only certain crimes against children and related offenses."
http://searchenginewatch.com/article/2140751/SOPA-PIPA-On-Hold-But-a-New-Threat-on-Horizon
Especially for this nugget regarding the Child Protection/Data Retention bill:
"This bill is not about crimes against children. That’s just window dressing designed to push through an Orwellian law that would see all citizens monitored and their activities recorded, at the expense of ISPs. U.S. law already allows the collection of IP addresses when a person is suspected of a crime, and this law extends far beyond use in crimes against children. To be clear, the report states, “The Committee rejected an amendment to limit access to IP address data to only certain crimes against children and related offenses."