SOPA & PIPA: Not The First Time Governments Have Messed With the Web

From the Majority Report, live M-F 11:30am EST and via daily podcast at http://Majority.FM:
Many websites have gone black to protest SOPA & PIPA. However, they're not the first attempts to end the Internet as we know it....the US Government tried to force SOPA & PIPA like bills on Spain, India required user information from tech companies, lobbyists want the Internet in the U.S. to be just like China's...

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[LordBalto]

last time I looked, Ben Cardin was still a co-sponsor of PIPA. He now claims he's doing it so he can "influence" the shape of the final legislation. I sent him an email telling him they don't need to improve it. They need to tear it up into little pieces and burn it.

[whoo689]

The DMCA was already bad enough without this crap!

[ManosOceano]

What does the CIA have to do with government?

[polemius01]

@stephenrblv Your inability to understand the humor in the favorite video on my page is further indication of your identity as a troll.

Trolls always demand the last word. You may have it, for all the good it will do you.

[phoenix1916]

Amazing how the Government EVERYWHERE want to control EVERYTHING and the People GET NOTHING for free even in these austere times, are we always gonna be sheep???

[stephenrblv]

@polemius01 VIVENDI-Disney-VIACOM-AOL TimeWarner-Newscorp among others. As to being a minion, sure you are. You are also incapable of understanding logical ideas and call such dearth or mush. This from a user who promotes a video called the bananaphone on his youtube page.

[polemius01]

@stephenrblv Again, a dearth of sense. Kindly name the so-called "Offline Giants," if there are such entities.

I am no one's minion.

[stephenrblv]

@polemius01 It will go where the individual wants it to.That is where the power lies not in some Corp. They are trying to survive like everybody else. The uproar is being directed by online Corporate Giants. They have rallied their minions like you to fight an attack by Offline Giants. None of it matters to an individual. For every door they close 12 open. The sinkhole to avoid is buying into the FUD. The minute you do that you become nothing more than a bananaphone.

[polemius01]

@stephenrblv Once again, rhetorical mush. SOPA is good, you claim, and also "a bunch of BS."

This putative "innovation," if it happens at all, will occur as the result of corporate muscle flexing, as corporate world management adds still more controlling power to its arsenal. Where do you think this will stop?

You seem to be fine with that.

[ManosOceano]

Consolidate the force, Sam! The CIA runs the country and if you don't get on point soon, the world is fucked!

[stephenrblv]

@polemius01 If SOPA results in less people linking to crud like Fox News, I say bring it on. Besides if you understand the Net you will know if SOPA is passed, this alone will spark a massive growth spike in innovation. Example, what will fill the vacuum left by the Corporate morons worrying about their outdated copyright models? gee new content providers maybe? SOPA can only be enforced if enough worry warts with Bananaphones comply and self censor themselves. Sopa is a bunch of BS.

[polemius01]

@stephenrblv Your convoluted grammar is nearly impenetrable, but, if I can decipher it, you seem to be in favor of passing a bill into law that will allow corporate media to censor anything you say that they deem to be copyright infringement.

If that is so (and, again, your writing "style" does not make your message clear), then I hope you enjoy your Amerika.