The internet gets shut down???

[Laharl Star]

The government is trying to pass a law where the internet will be completely censored! which means places like Deviant Art,Youtube,Pandora Music and other places will be completely destroyed. Its already been passed on the legislation but still i doubt it will fully pass!

More Info Here!!!

Please look into this!!
This is just plain ridiculous!! Dx  

[xXAngel of ProtectionXx]

NNNNNNNNNNNNNNNOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! scream scream scream scream scream  

[Takashi_The_Dragon]

i doubt obama will pass it because he does youtube broadcasts to be able to reach out to the teens like us i will only like him if he vetoes the bill and i will be severley pissed if he passes the bill into a law  

[Periclod]

FFFFFUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCKKKKK
INTERNET HAS A GOOD WAY AND WHY THEY GONNA SHUT DOWN!?
I MUST MAKE A REBELLION TO ALL INTERNET-USER?
Pettition:who want the internet will not shut down and be ths way just reply!
FUUUUUCK USA stressed scream scream scream scream scream scream stressed stressed stressed scream scream scream scream scream scream stressed stressed stressed stressed stressed scream scream scream scream scream scream stressed stressed stressed stressed stressed  

[Laharl Star]

I really hope they do not pass this bill
we'll all be screwed....  

[Lazurkri]

for ******** sake, don't stretch the whole goddamn page, idiots. Secondly, even if this takes effect, I'm fine, as I'm in Canada, and all the places that might be shut down can merely move their physical servers up here, and then be free to continue on like nothings happened... ideally.

this reminds me of that scare a while back about how the costs to access the internet would get out of control.... that never happened, so I have little doubt this censorship thing will be away with time as well.  

[shoki_de_nai]

xXAngel of ProtectionXx

Unnecessarily long scream of "no."

Thanks for stretching the page. stare  

[Lazurkri]

shoki_de_nai

xXAngel of ProtectionXx

Unnecessarily long scream of "no."

Thanks for stretching the page. stare

And for making the page LENGTH retardily long as well....  

[Laharl Star]

Lazurkri

for ******** sake, don't stretch the whole goddamn page, idiots. Secondly, even if this takes effect, I'm fine, as I'm in Canada, and all the places that might be shut down can merely move their physical servers up here, and then be free to continue on like nothings happened... ideally.

this reminds me of that scare a while back about how the costs to access the internet would get out of control.... that never happened, so I have little doubt this censorship thing will be away with time as well.

-sigh- i understand your in another country but still
if this is going on here it might effect your country in the near by
furture IF it gets passed
wether we live half way across the world we must realize this is a serious matter! It could possibly spread. But then again we just gotta wish it wont pass because u never know...  

[sandrock_buck]

I seriously doubt that this bill will pass. If it did, there woul be riots from middle-class businessmen, teens, and any non-prude within the country. The only people who benefit from this bill are the super prudes who think that porn and cleavage are a sin, and even they would probably hate to see youtube go down. Also, this is a maltter of free speech, if it did pass, the Supreme Court would probably take it down not long after.  

[Laharl Star]

You never know what they'll do i mean
if they banned gay marriage
whos to say the dumbass government
wont ban the ******** internet aswell Dx
Thats how stupid they are!  

[00Shoe]

I assume no one read what this bill was trying to do.

1: The ability to force DNS registrars to disable websites inside the U.S. that support the spread of copyrighted material against the copyrighters wishes, as well as aids in the sale of knockoff products.
2: The ability to force U.S. online companies (specifically payment services) from interacting with foreign companies who are part of file sharing and aiding knockoff products.

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I am not arguing that this is a good thing, but before getting in an up roar one should know the facts.

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However, if this passed it would be a step one in what could potentially be a slippery slope into actual censorship of the internet.

Sites such as youtube could be blocked if it were discovered that there was intelectual property that was being shared against U.S. law (which there is plenty). Now what this bill would allow them to do is shut down the entire site of YouTube, not just the pages that infringe on copyright.

Say they expanded the bill at a later time, this could include things that the writers of said bill deemed immoral.

Overall, a bad thing.

@Lazurkri:

I think you need to look at the bigger picture, yes we are in Canada. But this bill would effect us. Any site in the U.S. could be shut down, this could be a site you never use - or it could be your favourite site. Many sites that are operated out of Canada are actually hosted in the states (such as all of my websites). That would mean that the U.S. government would be able to shut down my sites if they were discovered to have shared copyrighted content.  

[YingBlanc]

wait would the UK be effected question or is it around the world, or just USA, and is it just.Com or is it.Org and that lot as well question  

[Lazurkri]

....it would affect you, unless the physical servers that the website(s) in question actually runs off of are moved out of the U.S...  

[Laharl Star]

Basically hands down...is it gets passed were all ********-