Internet censorship Options

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http://americancensorship.org/

"Today, Congress holds hearings on the first American Internet censorship system.
This bill can pass. If it does the Internet and free speech will never be the same.
Join all of us to stop this bill."

Thoughts.

[Tomates]

I think it's dumb. Why censor the internet? I feel like it's taking away freedom as speech. Besides people are just going to find a way to get around it. Just like drugs, people know it's illegal but they still do it anyways.

[Maccabee]

I think it's dumb. Why censor the internet? I feel like it's taking away freedom as speech. Besides people are just going to find a way to get around it. Just like drugs, people know it's illegal but they still do it anyways.

the main purpose of the bill is merely to shutdown piracy sites. what people are angry about is how the bill proposes a technology to accomplish that, which also puts a lot of other power in their hands which could potentially limit free speech and access to information on the internet. they could also erase/prevent records of events, people, etc.

edit

Granted this is most likely to try and stop pirating of music/movies/ect. I assume it would make it easier to shutdown sites (permanently and with greater penalty) like pirate bay and other torrent sites. As well as streaming sites. So in that sense they have every right to pass the bill.

I have a legit fear of people trying to heavily censor and control the internet. As well as running it similar to the way they run TV (you pay this much for these channels, but have to pay this much extra for those channels). Maybe I am just paranoid.

the gov would but they have no control over foreign websites. this bill proposes that government can control what american citizens see through the isp (internet service provider). then they wouldn't have to shut down sites, they could just stop us from seeing it. this is the same technology the north korean government currently uses to censor what their citizens see.