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Please help stop censorship of USA Internet

Forum News & Leisure : World News Please help stop censorship of USA Internet

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Dear friend,

I just emailed Congress to urge them to oppose the Internet Blacklist Legislation, known as the PROTECT-IP Act in the Senate and the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) in the House. This legislation seeks to give the executive branch power to conduct slash-and-burn campaigns against websites that allegedly host – or even link to – content that infringes on intellectual property rights. That would “disappear” whole domain names, fundamentally undermining Internet security, and/or choke off their financial support. The Internet Blacklist Legislation puts more sites than ever at risk, effectively upending the DMCA safe harbors that have been crucial to the growth of Internet innovation and creativity.

Sadly, these short-sighted and dangerous bills won’t do much to stop online infringement – but they will jeopardize our ability to speak and read online with the kind of freedom we cherish in the offline world. Deep-pocketed Hollywood lobbyists are aggressively pushing to control and censor the open Internet, willing to sacrifice free speech and our Internet culture in hopes of controlling how people view their movies and products.

We need to stop this bill before it goes any further. Will you contact your representatives in Congress and urge them to oppose the Internet Blacklist Legislation? Visit: https://eff.org/r.C8A


The US government is going to give over more control of the DNS name server to corporations and ISPs
The US internet as we know it could be changed forever
If you feel strongle that internet censorship is a bad thing than please contact your Congressman or Senator
with the link posted above

Thank you very much

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Thank you so much for your post.
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I gave Pat Leahy a piece of my mind.

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@seikialice88 - you are welcome and thank you for being concerned

@wanamingo - I am glad to see others doing something about this
The only thing that will stop congress and senate is when
they are under the spotlight and know they are being watched

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