PROTECT IP Act?! Grrr...
I’m so fucking sick and tired of the dumbass morons this country continues to put into Washington and their complete lack of foresight! It enrages me to no end!
**Will the PROTECT IP Act provide benefits to Americans and people worldwide? **
To many the answer will be “Yes”, but only in the fashion that you might not be able to visit some site that spreads a virus to your computer, websites that are selling illegal software, stolen music, or something a long these lines. Maybe terrorist network sites will be block, etc. But, this is NOT the position of govt! Their job isn’t to decide what I see or not see! This is censorship, plain and simple!! What if the govt doesn’t want you to see the website of a radical new movement anywhere in the world, maybe like the many thousands that have helped to shape the world in which we live today! Don’t forget that the intentions of laws like this are most always done without mal-intent. But when you are in charge of a country and have goals to accomplish, you will use all tools available at your disposal to accomplish said task. Who knows what the future will hold, but if the govt doesn’t like something, they can squash it! Imagine if this was in place a year or two ago before wikileaks broke out huge. You better believe there would have been a huge movement to sensor it and honestly, people would have just gone about their lives with it censored. And, while I am not a huge proponent of everything that Asange and Co pump out, I fully support freedom of speech and press, regardless of what the fuck is being said!
Will the PROTECT IP Act be global censorship?
Yes, it absolutely will, especially since the new provisions require that search engines filter out content, and guess what laws the major search engines will be required to comply with?
I also feel the need to mention the lack of foresight here in terms of court costs! For a gov’t that has over 13 TRILLION dollars in fucking debt, the last thing we need are more court costs! You better believe that the tax payer will be paying the dumbasses (indirectly) to run a program of this nature, offering court hearings for many cases and then slamming the gavel on all the other companies that must comply, costing them administrative and technical overhead in the process. It’s laws like this that fuck an economy, slowly, one after the other, gov’t gets larger and larger to the point where it takes massive money to support a network of operations that do nothing more than create massive inefficiencies!
For a good overview of the good, the bad, and the ugly as well as the original copy of the act see here…
What can you do?
Sign the petition here… http://www.dontcensorthenet.com/ Take your opinions to the web Contact your US state representative to tell them how terrible this is for freedom of speech and press. Be proactive! The future of the world depends on it!