Thursday, July 14, 2011

The Audacity of Protect IP and the possible digital police state



The internet is the last bastion of freedom we have in the world. Any attempt to tame or censor it should not be allowed. The Protect IP act is just one of the many police state nazi laws that are in the workings of getting passed. It's just recently made it to the senate floor.

"Protect IP" actually stands for "Preventing Real Online Threats to Economic Creativity and Theft of Intellectual Property" (COICA  stands for "Combating Online Infringement and Counterfeits Act"). Protect IP is a revision of COICA.

You know what sucks? Do you really think these corporate whores on capitol hill really know dick about technology? No. Let's say you wanted to go ti PirateBay for example, not to download anything, but read the comments and find out more information on a product. Well, PirateBay is at risk of being shutdown every day with all of these laws that are trying to get passed by people who utterly FAIL at critical thinking. For instance, what if you were a victim of a botnet that downloaded copyright material onto your computer, and then you got reported for it? You could probably end up in jail for a crime that you didn't commit.

Google hasn't made the best descisions in the past (They've actually stopped their censorship in China, but at one point were ok with it.) but on this issue I've got to give them a lot of credit for their strong stance against Protect IP.

Sometimes it can be hard to imagine that in the "land of the free" we have people elected to congress that are VERY much against the values and ideals of this country. Joe Lieberman for example:

“Right now China, the government, can disconnect parts of its Internet in case of war and we need to have that here too.”
Hey Joe! If you like China so much, WHY DON'T YOU GO LIVE THERE!

                                                It suits him quite well.


For more internet freedom activism:

Why the DMCA must be stopped
Anti-Digital Rights Management (They recently sent Nintendo a bunch of bricks to protest Nintendo's use of DRM in the Nintendo 3DS.)
Completely FREE software. Open Source, Free, Free to make copies, Free to modify.

And when the internet police state happens... You can join Anonymous and Fight Back!



Peace out. I'll try to update this more often.

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