Bad times r a coming democracy Freedom its all becoming a False teaching, i am 64 years old i was taught the 4 FREEDOMS at school they have been taken away from us and now the internet in the USA's congress being effed about with, who are these no-gooders for goodnes sake leave us alone.
here are the 4 Freedoms.for the unwise no offence intended.
1.Freedom of speech.
2.Freedom from Fear.
3.Freedom from want.
4.Freedom of Worship.
Its time these politicions went back to school.And to top it all i live in the UK and its C-RAP.
Freedom across the internet and software need to be in agreement with FOSS standards before it can actually exist:
Freedom 0: The freedom to run the program for any purpose.
Freedom 1: The freedom to study how the program works, and change it to make it do what you wish.
Freedom 2: The freedom to redistribute copies so you can help your neighbor.
Freedom 3: The freedom to improve the program, and release your improvements (and modified versions in general) to the public, so that the whole community benefits.
I like how people just buy the counter-propaganda from opponents of the bill straight up. You do realize using those same arguments, then more critical services such as Google Search, Bing, and most other major search engines would also be shut down since their indexes could contain references to piracy and these serve far greater services than expressing freedom (they effectively enumerate knowledge and information). Yet people are more worried about their YouTube and Facebook accounts (kind of a sad prioritization).
If you actually read the bill then you would know this:
A site will not be shut down if:
1. The primary goal of the site is not piracy.
2. The site's administration makes an active effort to remove piracy references.
If you knew basic networking then you would also know that it is not possible with today's algorithms to effectively remove piracy references with accuracy and speed (and this difficulty increases exponentially with larger user bases).
Way more information here:
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TLDR: Please stop countering propaganda with more propaganda and read the damn bill (not what everyone is saying about the bill).
[Edited by Neo7, 11/18/2011 3:38:10 PM]
yes google would be affected and google has been very vocal about that and how they agree protect-ip/sopa are bad
For all you idiots who are siding with the government on censoring the internet because of piracy or dissent. Think of it like this, the government can ban guns and it only hurts the decent people who have guns for protection. While a criminal does not follow the rules and can get a gun illegally. Censoring only hurts the majority of good internet users. Bad ones always find loop holes no matter what. The universe is always balanced, you cant take out bad as much as the government wants to they are just making it worse like trapping the bad ones in the corner and the only way out is....
Think of this analogy. You gave up freedom to be part of this website and use the trainers. In our Terms of Service, it states that the staff is in their full right to terminate any part of the service for any reason they want. Virtually every single website carries this one rule with them (Mark Zuckenburg can ban you from Facebook for the reason that he simply does not like you). Limitations to expression on the internet has always existed yet not everyone exercises it to that extent.
Taking the analogy further, this is similar to a few bad users getting a trainer retired because it's no longer a good investment to micromanage to benefit those who used it. Same thing is happening. Nobody is helping to solve the piracy problem leading to a runaway problem in which drastic measures need to be taken. Sure there's lots happy paying for software, but nobody is saying "look go and use free software if you don't want to pay".
This is the top list (probably outdated by now) of the most commonly pirated software. Few people actually know the alternatives other than go to a torrent site and download an illegal copy (and if you pirate anything on this list, you're a hypocrite to your own cause in my eyes):
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You want to stop the companies from taking these drastic measures? The internet community needs to be taking an active effort to maintain the software ecosystem and direct people to the GNU software if they're unwilling or unable to pay. The more attention these alternatives get, the more they become the standards and thus getting rid of a huge incentive for why this bill came into place (because you cannot infringe on free software).
[Edited by Neo7, 11/18/2011 6:15:58 PM]
[Edited by Neo7, 11/18/2011 6:17:13 PM]