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Comment by The Shiznit on November 22, 2011 at 11:14pm

All About SOPA - The Bill That Would Cripple the Internet

@LifeHacker.com

Comment by Reese Leysen on November 18, 2011 at 11:44am

Fuck yeah, go EU!! bit.ly/td8gWE - EU warns the US about SOPA, says "back off!".

Comment by Reese Leysen on November 17, 2011 at 1:17pm

While the US is trying to push the evil SOPA, Europe is taking steps in the right direction. http://j.mp/toAteJ

Comment by Bernhard on November 17, 2011 at 8:58am

Ouh indeed it does! Great stuff! This really gives back some trust in our society :D

I hope it's successfull.

Comment by Reese Leysen on November 16, 2011 at 8:46pm

This fucking rocks: http://bit.ly/sUJnIH #sopa

Comment by Bernhard on November 16, 2011 at 12:42pm

http://americancensorship.org/ - Protest, Online. Today.

Comment by Bernhard on November 16, 2011 at 9:51am

Creeping Censorship. Very little steps, that no one really notices, until it is too late.

Like getting the flue, As soon as you notice that you are getting sick, better get some Vit C, instead of waiting for the sickness and then suffer under it.

 

Changing DNS entries also is NOT comparable to the youtube censorship! It is true, that blocking a vertain video does not prevent it from being uploaded again. But changing DNS entries could easily lead you to fake websites, without you even noticing. The right to change those entries means quite a lot. Let's make sure, that they don't get it. Even, if their Protect-IP thing WOULD fail no one should even take the risk that it could work in the future.

 

„Principiis obsta.- Wehret den Anfängen!"

Comment by VimanaPro on November 16, 2011 at 1:55am

http://www.eepsite.com/

http://www.i2p2.de/faq.html

http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/How_to_Protect_your_Internet_Anonymity...

http://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/10/04/1855211/belgian-isp-ordered-...

Comment by Reese Leysen on November 15, 2011 at 11:51pm

There is definitely some truth to what you say Manjius, the fact that certain freedoms have become very central to how the Internet works does make one wonder: can corporations and governments still 'reverse' this? Certainly flipping a switch from one day to the next and blocking access to a bunch of sites we use daily in an all-out totalitarian style sounds like an unlikely scenario. But how about slower legal reforms that gradually shape how we use the Internet in a way that will eventually restrict important freedoms? I don't claim to be able to predict how things will unfold but this sounds realistic to me.

 

Right now my ISP here in Belgium is already blocking ThePirateBay.org, a site I have used on many occasions to download perfectly legal content and which does not actually host illegal content but is merely a search engine for existing torrents which they are not responsible for. This is one thing that is already happening that I at one point too thought would never happen. Who knows, maybe we're underestimating how easily new laws can change things.

 

If you do some digging on what the global media climate was surrounding radio broadcasting when the invention had just gone mainstream, it was comparable to how we now view social networking. Everyone had the right to broadcast and every major city had hundreds of amateur broadcasters and thousands of people surfing the airwaves looking for interesting things. This may sound incredible but I'm not exaggerating when I say that magazines and newspapers all around the world were discussing how this was about to change humanity forever and revolutionize education and solve so many problems that are dependent on the free flow information.

 

Then new bills were passed, laws were changed and getting a broadcasting license became complicated and difficult. This entire landscape simply disappeared and made way for a more commercialized one. The less intellectual crowd still got their entertainment though and was not bothered all that much by it.

 

Again, I'm not saying your argument is invalid, I'm just giving everything some more context. The interesting thing about the Internet is that the social aspect IS the 'killer app'. Even on very closed systems like Apple's iOS and App Store, the popular apps are Twitter, Facebook, Instagram etc. Seems like whatever will happen, it'll be hard to truly eradicate those facets that give the power to the people, so to speak. Nevertheless, evil things are certainly happening and are no longer as hypothetical as they were when we were discussing the net neutrality issue on I Power 4 years ago. SOPA, as just one example, is very real and is widely discussed by lawmakers, reporters and all the top news sites and is not some Alex Jones concoction that we should ignore. Fighting against these developments is certainly not a bad thing.

Comment by Manjius3.2 on November 15, 2011 at 11:28pm

I don't see the danger in those things, the internet is far to huge to be controlled by any government.

I know you guys love conspiracy theories but get real, a bunch of old people can't tame the internet.

 

Take youtube as an example, they may censor songs and stuff like that, but you can find them by writing them on google and clicking two times. How is anybody gonna defeat that? Trying to control the internet is like trying to stop a wave...in the middle of an ocean.

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