the end of the internet as we know it! thanks america!!
 

well it seems the crazyest country in the galaxy has gone a step to far imo. it seems your freedom has slipped away completly. and there gonna take us all with them!!!!!!!!

COICA

In the United States, a new law proposal called The Combating Online Infringement and Counterfeits Act (COICA) was introduced last week, and there will be a hearing in front of the Judiciary Committee this Thursday.

If passed, this law will allow the government, under the command of the media companies, to censor the internet as they see fit, like China and Iran do, with the difference that the sites they decide to censor will be completely removed from the internet and not just in the US.

Please see the following article from the Huffington Post for more information.

here

And if you are a US citizen, please take the time to sign this petition

click for petition

this could be the end of the internet as we know it!!!!

Re: the end of the internet as we know it! thanks america!!
 

USA removing sites hosted and controlled under local law of Sweden or Russia. Riiiight. Let´s see.

btw.
http://thepiratebay.org/legal

Re: the end of the internet as we know it! thanks america!!
 

Hyperbolic much?

Calm down and go sign the petition.

Re: the end of the internet as we know it! thanks america!!
 

This line gets me.

No action (except ridiculing the senders) has been taken by us because of these. :-)

Yet their in jail right now. lol.

But seriously this is a step to far.

Re: the end of the internet as we know it! thanks america!!
 

Nobody is in jail IIRC and tpb is up as always.

Re: the end of the internet as we know it! thanks america!!
 

It's a form of democracy and free speech.

The leaders and public representatives can come up with idiotic recommendation and proposal (such as this) and the public are free to vote them down.

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"will be completely removed from the internet"
How?

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who exactly? you mean about innocent collateral servers that were in the same room than tpb's when the server room was raided by police?

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it depends on viewpoint. for example this page:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democracy
probably doesn't exist in China.

so nothing will be removed but the content is filtered. Or did I understand completely wrong?

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Since the US owns ICANN and they in turn practically control the root servers then in theory they can chop off any site they choose.

Anyway the US has always been a law unto itself. Witness the practically daily drone attacks in Pakistan. It's intended prosecution of that Russian arms dealer on the grounds that he intended weapons to sell weapons that may (speculatively) be used to harm US citizens in Colombia - just how does the US claim jurisdiction when none of those activities are taking place on US soil? Its prosecution of Afghan nationals for killing US soldiers in Afghanistan - WTF you invade a country and don't expect retaliation?