Tuesday, January 17, 2012

Free Speech is over -- The Rambling Taoists are Closed

Ta-Wan


From here "...[This] means social media sites like Facebook or YouTube — basically any site with user generated content [Blogger, Wordpress, Wikipedia!!] — would have to police their own sites, forcing huge liability costs onto countless Internet companies."

Wikipedia is planning a 24-hour blackout of their service to protest these bills. Read Their Statement.

Because corporations want power over the freedom of the internet, they want to push policy that takes away, not just Americans freedoms, but the world's at large. These Bills are called PIPA PROTECT IP Act and SOPA Stop Online Piracy Act - you are currently free to read about such things here and on Wikipedia but in the future, probably not.

The basic idea is that the corporations are pushing for power to remove your freedom to information in case you use it for something they don't approve of. This for Americans breaks the first amendment and for Americans and the rest of the world it craps on freedom and everything we have grown to love about the internet.

You can check out Ta-Wan's other musings here.

3 comments:

  1. They are so afraid of people buying counterfeit handbags online (child labor! organized crime! terrorism!) but Zappos can't keep its account information secure?

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  2. A great point was made somewhere. "they want to target sites that offer the possibility of copyright infringement. So why not close the whole web? As that offers the possibility!"

    From Mozilla "SOPA makes all of us potential criminals if we don’t become the enforcement arm of a new government regulatory and policing structure. SOPA does not target websites serving up unauthorized content. SOPA does not target people accessing those websites. SOPA targets all the rest of us."

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