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Post by Claire on Jan 18, 2012 17:07:01 GMT 1
Hi all, you may have noticed the banner on the forum (and other proboard forums and other websites) about a bill that is going thru congress in the USA which wants to crack down on infringement of copyright and intellectual property, etc and provide a sort of censorship of the net. I wondered what people thought of the issue? Do you think these measures will threaten free speech and will spoil the internet as a medium for information as those against it say? If you dont know much about the bills (no doubt susan and other American forumites will know more than the Brits) here is a link to the Wikipedia page about them: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:SOPA_initiative/Learn_morePersonally i think it stinks that they can devote so much time and energy into this when no-one seems to lift a finger to stop really nasty stuff that is going on thru the net such as child porn.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 18, 2012 19:29:17 GMT 1
I did notice the banner at the top here but haven't noticed it anywhere else so far. I'll have a read up on it....
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Post by darkhorse on Jan 18, 2012 20:36:40 GMT 1
I don't know much about it, however I did notice that Wikipedia had a 'black out' in protest of it, which was annoying because I wanted to look something up on there.
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Post by Claire on Jan 19, 2012 16:31:51 GMT 1
Wikipedia is back on now. It seems to think there is a danger of it coming under scrutiny if new laws go ahead.
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Post by kunuma on Jan 19, 2012 22:10:16 GMT 1
I think there are many parts of the internet seriously in need of censorship!! However I couldn't give a toss about film/music piracy and in fact would love to have an internet speed fast enough to be able to take advantage of it - ;D ;D ;D
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Post by Claire on Jan 20, 2012 0:06:07 GMT 1
I think there are many parts of the internet seriously in need of censorship!! However I couldn't give a toss about film/music piracy and in fact would love to have an internet speed fast enough to be able to take advantage of it - ;D ;D ;D You should be able to manage it at 3 meg kunuma. I used to manage it on dial up! ;D
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