Censorship

Censoring the interwebz, who the hell do they think they are are???  Burma? China? Cuba? Egypt? Iran? North Korea? Saudi Arabia? Syria? Tunisia? Turkmenistan? Uzbekistan? Vietnam? 

Ya, those are all the countries that censor the web. I don't know about you, but I don't want the U.S. to be on that list. But it looks like "they're bringing back the Internet blacklist bill for a vote on Thursday. 


Remember, this bill--in blatant violation of the Constitution--would let the Attorney General create a blacklist of websites that every American ISP would be required to block. Wikileaks, YouTube, and others are all at risk. Human rights advocates, constitutional law experts, and the people who invented the Internet have all spoken out against this bill -- but some of the most powerful industries in the country are demanding that Congress rush it through. The music industry is even having all of their employees call Congress to pose as citizens in support of the bill."


"We all use the web now for all kinds of parts our lives, some trivial, some critical to our life as part of a social world," says Tim Berners- creator of the Web. "In the spirit going back to Magna Carta, we require a principle that: No person or organization shall be deprived of their ability to connect to others at will without due process of law, with the presumption of innocence until found guilty. Neither governments nor corporations should be allowed to use disconnection from the Internet as a way of arbitrarily furthering their own aims."


Sign petition to let Washington know that you want them to stay away from your internet! 


Combating Online Infringement and Counterfeits Act (COICA) S. 3804 Fact Sheet