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SOPA: THE INTERNET BLACKLIST BILL A new bill will allow the US Government to block Americans from visiting websites WEBSITE BLOCKED HOW DOES THE BLOCKING WORK? DNS BLOCKING The same website censorship method used by CHINA, IRAN, AND SYRIA S B ING The us sets precedents for Internet law around the globe which means censorship could become the new standard WHEN DOES A SITE GET BLOCKED? "One of my users posted that. Help!" "This page has infringing links. This is a rogue website." "You didn't do enough to stop it" A few infringing links are enough to block a site full of legal material, and sites become liable for user-posted content A WEBSITE OPERATOR COULD FACE US WEB TRAFFIC SEARCH AFFIC AD-REVENUE As a result WHAT SITES ARE AT GREATEST RISK? Anywhere people are expressing themselves or finding content: social networks, hosting sites, personal pages. Sites' self-censorship increases dramatically. Fewer startups launch, due to riskier legal climate vf鵬夫b乡び滑 Before SOPA Self Censorship d the bill passes Today's New startups being launched HOW DOES THIS AFFECT: ANY AMERICAN USER ANTI-CENSORSHIP INITIATIVES Sites you visit daily could be blocked TOR website Email providers may be forced to censor certain links you send or receive . Alternate DNS Tools used by democracy activists in China and Iran will be blocked in the US The links and content you share on social networks will be carefully monitored and possibly censored" "No doubt theyW accidentally remove legitimate links, when looking for infringing links COULD THIS POSSIBLY BECOME THE LAW? Yes. The following two bills have a lot of support in congress, thanks to numerous lobbies PRMA SENATE: PROTECT IP ACT CO-SPONSORS 21 16 요요요요요요요요요요요요 Bill sponPATRICK LEAHY HOUSE: STOP ONLINE PIRACY ACT CO-SPONSORS 16 LAMAR SMITH Our basic internet freedoms are on the chopping bl ock- it's time to tell your congress person that American Censorship isn't OK. TAKE ACTION: AmericanCensorship.or

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RON PAUL HERITAGE FOUNDATION AL GORE WIKIPEDIA MOZILLA O BAY FACEBOOK MICROSOFT YOUTUBE GOOGLE HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH TWITTER YAHOO BUSINESS SOFTWARE TUMBLR ALLIANCE COMPUTER AND COMMUNICATIONS INDUSTRY ASSOCIATION LAURENCE TRIBE AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION SOPA "FATHER OF THE INTERNET" VINT CERF HARVARD PROF Y COMBINATOR “I CAN'T HEAR YOU!" KICK REP. LAMAR SMITH OUT 2012
[Discussion]Are SJWs an end-run around the failure of SOPA? iself.KotakulnAction) submitted 11 minutes ago by Aurondarklord So l've been thinking about this a lot lately...SJWs are definitely not a new thing, but until a couple years ago, they were never a BIG thing, they had their little hugboxes, and occasionally you'd run into some hypersensitive crusader in the wild, but they were mostly an irrelevant joke and certainly not capable of intimidating companies or forcing change. And then, very suddenly, they began gaining rapid steam, boosted by incredibly biased media coverage selling the world moral panic about all of their pet causes We know, from leaked documents, that the major media companies are determined to succeed where SOPA and PIPA failed, and that a major part of their strategy to ultimately implement site blocking is to find a way to shift the overton window, change culture so that people become okay with the idea. Atheism+ was coined in 2012, Anita Sarkeesian's kickstarter was in 2012, I would call these two of the major events that touched off the big internet social justice war that has snowballed to where we are today, SOPA and PIPA went down in flames in January 2012. And as some people have pointed out, Reddit's new "harassment" policy essentially mirrors the structure of those bills, subs get nuked with no trial and no recourse because someone in authority has decided their content is unacceptable. It would appear on the outside that the SJWs succeeded where corporate America could not, they're implemented their own mini-SOPA, and done so to the cheering of the masses at least on one side of the political spectrum, and the broad approval (and spin doctoring assistance) of the tech media. ...Or did they? Okay everybody, time to get your tinfoil hats on nice and snug! How is it that in the course of about three years, SJWs seem to have infiltrated the tech scene on every level, controlling major websites, gaining an ideological stranglehold over once neutral or libertarian publications and news outlets, and positioning themselves to be able to produce "propaganda bursts" like "gamers are dead" or now "redditors are dead" in coordinated tandem to spin a narrative demonizing any group that's a threat to their ideology? What if they had help? The more l think about it, and the more the anti-free speech efforts of the SJWs seem to mirror ideas like SOPA, the more l start to wonder if this whole thing has been astroturfed. Perhaps the entire SJW movement is manufactured by the big media companies as part of their strategy to change the cultural climate on site blocking, they found a few useful idiots, funded them or gave them access to media spotlight, and relentlessly pushed their agenda as a means of demonizing free speech and the open internet, getting people to accept, and even push for, censorship for ideological reasons, so they'll be more open to the idea of censorship for business reasons Maybe the SJWs appear so inexplicably well coordinated because they actually ARE being coordinated by an outside force So discuss, something worth looking into, or am l a paranoid lunatic? 4 comments share save hide give gold report
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While I agree this is something worth fighting against, I have issues with this infographic. My first and foremost issue is the use of graphs not based on any particular research which as far as I can tell are meaningless. Look, here are the same graphs to show the effects of repealing Bush-era tax cuts for the rich:

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…and they're just as meaningful in that context.

Some lesser issues include: The phrase "The same website censorship method used by CHINA, IRAN, AND SYRIA", which serves to link the idea of web censorship to countries considered "bad", while of course not mentioning that this is also the method used in Norway, Denmark, Estonia, and Belgium, among others. In the same section, claiming that "censorship could become the new standard" is questionable. According to ONI, there are 43 countries that censor the Internet more pervasively than the U.S.A., which IMO is a substantial enough amount to question the idea of a censorship "standard".

There are a number of other statements that are vague and unexplained, and the entirety of the content is completely unsourced; but I'm going to stop rambling now, because as usual, I'm being far too verbose. Suffice it to say that I hope the for the sake of this cause, the information on the site this came from (I assume AmericanCensorship.org) is presented in a much better manner than this.

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