Comments | mf_luder_xf: Censoring the Internet

mf_luder_xf

Censoring the Internet

Nov 06, 2010 13:46

There is currently a bill in the Senate that has bipartisan support and the backing of groups like the entertainment industry and the AFL-CIO, called S3804 the Combating Online Infringement and Counterfeits Act (COICA,) which is seeking to ban websites based on illegal material ( Read more... )

topic: politics, topic: slash, topic: movies, topic: porn, topic: wtf?

Comments 3

aeon_entwined November 6 2010, 19:34:24 UTC

HEY CONGRESS. KEEP YOUR FILTHY FUCKING PAWS OFF MY ONLINE PROPERTY AND OUT OF MY LIFE.

In other news, I am royally pissed at whoever started this movement.

I'll be reposting this at my journal asap. Ugh. It's a wonder anything productive gets accomplished in D.C. at all when you have people clamoring for ridiculousness like this.

cynatnite November 6 2010, 21:13:11 UTC

I bet it came from the RIAA and the MPAA. Bunch of greedy bastards.

lorelei633 November 7 2010, 17:04:38 UTC

Definitely worded far too vaguely and I think it's deliberate. I've heard the internet referred to as the 'Wild West' many times and I am sure TPTB are desperate to get their paws on it and regulate it and tax it to death. I like having my freedom. I don't want anyone to tell me what I should and shouldn't do or see. I think if this passes, all of our freedoms are going to be in serious jeopardy.