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The Net Neutrality / Internet Freedom Thread

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I feel like SOPA/PIPA/ACTA would only stop piracy for like a week (probably even less), then go back to normal for pirates. While I haven't seen the newest version of SOPA, these acts only seem to hurt people who don't pirate, than those who do.

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Keith-J- said:
I feel like SOPA/PIPA/ACTA would only stop piracy for like a week (probably even less), then go back to normal for pirates. While I haven't seen the newest version of SOPA, these acts only seem to hurt people who don't pirate, than those who do.

Well apparently they're gonan bust everyone's balls and generally ban internet for people who do pirate.
 
I imagine this doesn't just refer to piracy, David Cameron has recently declared that pornography will be blocked by default in future and that an adult has to state that they want it to be unblocked if they want to access it. He also said searches of a crude nature should be blocked too. If this is something that'll be brought up in the new act then I imagine people doing more than just blocking pornography and that subjectively questionable items will be blocked too, because that's just what happens when people get more power. Hopefully, though, this is like the other attempts made recently and isn't actually going to get set in stone.
 
DARKNESSxEAGLE said:
I imagine this doesn't just refer to piracy, David Cameron has recently declared that pornography will be blocked by default in future and that an adult has to state that they want it to be unblocked if they want to access it. He also said searches of a crude nature should be blocked too. If this is something that'll be brought up in the new act then I imagine people doing more than just blocking pornography and that subjectively questionable items will be blocked too, because that's just what happens when people get more power. Hopefully, though, this is like the other attempts made recently and isn't actually going to get set in stone.

I fucking hope not, since yeah I get they want to make the internet safer but this is fucking insane levels.
 
Attempts to police the internet always go well. Can't wait to see how this progresses.
 
DARKNESSxEAGLE said:
David Cameron has recently declared that pornography will be blocked by default in future and that an adult has to state that they want it to be unblocked if they want to access it.
Hopefully a psychiatrist and an exorcist will be present during the "I would like access to porn" talk. Gotta keep dem deviants in line.
 
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WaterMystic277 said:
Well apparently they're gonan bust everyone's balls and generally ban internet for people who do pirate.

Oh? Well it didn't pass last time, so hopefully it won't pass again.
 
1984 was a warning, not a goddamned guidebook. -_-"

Keith-J- said:
Oh? Well it didn't pass last time, so hopefully it won't pass again.
It might, eventually. There's a lot of corporate lobbying behind these bills and they always use the sacrosanct argument "But the children!" which no one will publicly object. The best way to pass copyright protection laws is by claiming they're intended to fight child pornography (which probably will only have the opposite effect because by stopping those perverts from distributing said material it will end up making the acts themselves untraceable).
 
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Even when the government is shut down, they still manage to shit all over us. Figures.

Edit: Now I see the purpose of this:
 
Muro said:
Hopefully a psychiatrist and an exorcist will be present during the "I would like access to porn" talk. Gotta keep dem deviants in line.
This is exactly what I was thinking when it was mentioned first. In some ways I can see crime rate increasing because of prohibitions on internet use in the piracy sense too, an increase in physical theft is pretty much inevitable but it's the magnitude of the change that will show just how bad a decision they would be making if they went with their anti-internet intentions.
 
Porn and torrenting? Why don't they just shut the whole internet down?
 
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Balder said:
It might, eventually. There's a lot of corporate lobbying behind these bills and they always use the sacrosanct argument "But the children!" which no one will publicly object.

Within time, yes these bills like SOPA will be a serious danger to internet freedom, but I can't see the government using time and resources at the moment to enforce bills like SOPA successfully.
 
bsobotka said:
Porn and torrenting? Why don't they just shut the whole internet down?
And, if it's anything like SOPA, fan art and information (i.e. Wikipedia) could be stopped or restricted too.
 
Balder said:
1984 was a warning, not a goddamned guidebook. -_-"
Don't worry. Brave New World has been far more effective than 1984 ever was or would hope to be.

To all countries: Keep the internet free; people enslave themselves much better than you ever could.
 
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Fuck this. Hopefully if it passes it will be just like the last one where there is just too much to censor so it couldn't do its job.
 
Trying to censor the internet is like trying to stop a sunrise; the laws of nature forbid it!
 
Are these Illuminati wannabes EVER going to stop?!
I can't help but see the glaring resemblance between the people who draft these abominations and spoiled little brats that won't stop the tantrum until they get what they want.

What worries me if something like this passes is what comes next. If governments bend over for this, there's no stopping the snowball.
Them dystopian future books and movies looking less and less like fiction.
 
I signed it, for Freedom.
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Do you have to be a registered voter to sign it? Because I want to, and I need to know if I'm able to.
 
This shit is getting ridiculous.
 
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Nah man, I signed it and I'm a unregistered Australian.

Then, in that scenario, I will gladly sign it! Because FREEDOM!! FUCK YEAH!!
 
I don't want to live in a world where I can't exercise my constitutional right to stare at naughty bits on the internet.

This is what they're trying to take away from us, we have to signal boost this, spread the word of their injustice.
 
I just remembered something.

I have two separate email accounts.

Could I sign the petition with the other account? Because if so... :D
 
wouldn't be honest to do it... you can't beat BS with more BS and expect it to serve as an example
 
LaCheshireZorua said:
I just remembered something.

I have two separate email accounts.

Could I sign the petition with the other account? Because if so... :D
You could probably do it. At worst they'll IP block you the second time (and I doubt they would anyway - they want bigger numbers), but you won't have lost anything by trying.
 
wouldn't be honest to do it... you can't beat BS with more BS and expect it to serve as an example

That does serve as a good argument... Hm...
 
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