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Because in this country, it will take both parties to destroy our freedoms…
Republicans and Democrats alike — have signed onto a bill that would vastly expand the government’s power to censor the Internet.
The Combating Online Infringement and Counterfeits Act (COICA) was introduced just one week ago, but it’s greased and ready to move, with a hearing in front of the Judiciary Committee this Thursday. If people don’t speak out, US citizens could soon find themselves joining Iranians and Chinese in being blocked from accessing broad chunks of the public Internet.
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COICA creates two blacklists of Internet domain names. Courts could add sites to the first list; the Attorney General would have control over the second. Internet service providers and others (everyone from Comcast to PayPal to Google AdSense) would be required to block any domains on the first list. They would also receive immunity (and presumably the good favor of the government) if they block domains on the second list.
David Segal: Stop the Internet Blacklist.
You do realize where this might lead us right?
Related articles
- Congress Has Plans for an Internet Blacklist in the Works — Let’s Stop This Now (alternet.org)
- U.S. Senate Poised to Vote on Internet Blacklist (demandprogress.org)
- S. 3804, the Internet Blacklist bill (americablog.com)
Joel L. Watts holds a Masters of Arts from United Theological Seminary with a focus in literary and rhetorical criticism of the New Testament. His interests include exploring the role of mimesis in human civilization, specifically in the study of religion and media, as well as science fiction and the way in which it has allowed mythology to be explored in light of scientific discoveries of the past century. He is the author of Mimetic Criticism of the Gospel of Mark: Introduction and Commentary (Wipf and Stock, 2013) and a co-editor and contributor to From Fear to Faith: Stories of Hitting Spiritual Walls (Energion, 2013).
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This is nothing more than a logical outgrowth of the logic beneath copyright law. One more reason I’m Against Intellectual Property.
I do think that there is something to be said for property rights…unless of course, you want to do away with property rights altogether… But, I think that this is more to do with curbing criticism and extracting profit share than anything else.