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Web censorship bill sails through Senate committee
« on: November 19, 2010, 10:25:33 AM »
http://dailycaller.com/2010/11/19/web-censorship-bill-sails-through-senate-committee/

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On Thursday, the Senate Judiciary Committee unanimously approved a bill that would give the Attorney General the right to shut down websites with a court order if copyright infringement is deemed “central to the activity” of the site — regardless if the website has actually committed a crime.[/u]
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Re: Web censorship bill sails through Senate committee
« Reply #1 on: November 19, 2010, 10:29:07 AM »
Guilty until proven innocent.  This bill is backed by Hollywood and the record companies in a major way.

A lot of Dems are on that list.


Patrick J. Leahy -- Vermont
Herb Kohl -- Wisconsin
Jeff Sessions -- Alabama
Dianne Feinstein -- California
Orrin G. Hatch -- Utah
Russ Feingold -- Wisconsin
Chuck Grassley -- Iowa
Arlen Specter -- Pennsylvania
Jon Kyl -- Arizona
Chuck Schumer -- New York
Lindsey Graham -- South Carolina
Dick Durbin -- Illinois
John Cornyn -- Texas
Benjamin L. Cardin -- Maryland
Tom Coburn -- Oklahoma
Sheldon Whitehouse -- Rhode Island
Amy Klobuchar -- Minnesota
Al Franken -- Minnesota
Chris Coons -- Delaware
http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20101118/10291211924/the-19-senators-who-voted-to-censor-the-internet.shtml

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Re: Web censorship bill sails through Senate committee
« Reply #2 on: November 19, 2010, 10:52:10 AM »
Guilty until proven innocent.  This bill is backed by Hollywood and the record companies in a major way.

A lot of Dems are on that list.


Patrick J. Leahy -- Vermont
Herb Kohl -- Wisconsin
Jeff Sessions -- Alabama
Dianne Feinstein -- California
Orrin G. Hatch -- Utah
Russ Feingold -- Wisconsin
Chuck Grassley -- Iowa
Arlen Specter -- Pennsylvania
Jon Kyl -- Arizona
Chuck Schumer -- New York
Lindsey Graham -- South Carolina
Dick Durbin -- Illinois
John Cornyn -- Texas
Benjamin L. Cardin -- Maryland
Tom Coburn -- Oklahoma
Sheldon Whitehouse -- Rhode Island
Amy Klobuchar -- Minnesota
Al Franken -- Minnesota
Chris Coons -- Delaware
http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20101118/10291211924/the-19-senators-who-voted-to-censor-the-internet.shtml


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Re: Web censorship bill sails through Senate committee
« Reply #3 on: November 19, 2010, 12:03:22 PM »
Meanwhile, the Bush tax cuts take a back seat. The democraps don't want to pass it because the repubs want extensions for all, and I agree. Where's the imposter as well? Is he still in the U.S.? Or is he speaking with Medvedev about the START treaty.

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Re: Web censorship bill sails through Senate committee
« Reply #4 on: November 19, 2010, 01:23:34 PM »
I wonder if this would apply to sites in other countries. Piratebay is based in Sweden (?) , and is a big torrent site.    Will they shut Google down?


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Re: Web censorship bill sails through Senate committee
« Reply #5 on: November 19, 2010, 04:12:22 PM »
That's going to be hard to enforce.
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Re: Web censorship bill sails through Senate committee
« Reply #6 on: November 19, 2010, 07:55:49 PM »
No way they would abuse this. Not one time right? ****ing DUmmies wet dream come true if they were to use this to shut a site down just because a link to some news service went out and got posted in a few sites like CU or CC.
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Re: Web censorship bill sails through Senate committee
« Reply #7 on: November 20, 2010, 12:58:33 PM »
Senator: Web Censorship Bill A ‘Bunker-Busting Cluster Bomb’

http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2010/11/senator-web-censorship-bill-a-bunker-busting-cluster-bomb/

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The Combating Online Infringement and Counterfeits Act (COICA, S.3804) sets up a system through which the US government can blacklist a pirate website from the Domain Name System, ban credit card companies from processing US payments to the site, and forbid online ad networks from working with the site.
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Re: Web censorship bill sails through Senate committee
« Reply #8 on: November 20, 2010, 01:06:42 PM »
Well Barry did say there is way too much information available. So no surprise they want the power to shut down some of that information.
I bet you Holder can't wait to shut down Free Republic.
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