U.S. Censory?!?!

This really sucks. goto google. click on logo. AND SIGN PETITION!

 

Oh so that's why the google logo has a black box over it. The U.S. has talked about doing this since the Internet became public, in fact it's already a law called "copyright".*

This law has been proposed probably by some company that's getting bashed on the Internet(or perhaps even some political figure). It won't pass because congress isn't stupid, and it already goes again one of the bill of rights, the first amendment actually-the right of press.*

If people of the Internet are posting stuff then its press, if they're posting stuff and not giving credit, then it is copyright infringement.*

Believe me I know my history. Here's what's probably happening- Google(owners of Wikipedia and YouTube) are probably getting sued for something they did of copyright infringement, and know they won't win. Google is a huge company and since 99/100 Americans use google once a day, they can easily get support against some lawsuit.*

The minute I hear the Facebook and MySpace, and Yahoo! CEO's announcing a fight against this, I will worry. Until then I'm not.*

Nonetheless, I'll sign some useless petition and perhaps send a Facebook message to the news to check into this.

P.S. technically this site is propert of Great Brittain because TD is Brittish so the U.S. can't do anything about this site *shrug*

 

There are three branches of government- President, congress, and state. To get a law passed all three must agree- they won't. Here's why...

1.) state uses the Internet to promote traveling to the state- to promote this they'll use icons. For example PA has Steelers, Liberty Bell, Hershey, Phillies, etc. they may pay them, but it'll do nothing because nobody will know who they are because the people of the state on the Internet promote those things.
2.) congress uses the Internet to spread news to the people. The library of congress online-what people use now a days(not everybody can travel to Washington DC) everytime a person uses a book, congress will have to pay the author of that book money
3.) the president uses the Internet to promote himself and even the country. For example(I live in PA so this is one example I know) after winning the election he stated that Pittsburgh and Chicago were his favorite cities in the United States, he also said he was a steeler fan. He'd have to pay them. For the White House Christmas party they used Justin Bieber(ew) to promote it. Justin Bieber was being payed to perform, not used as a promotion, so they'd have to pay him more.

The Bill of Rights 1st Amendment prevents congress from making laws preventing citizens from practicing free religion, and from press.

Again congress can try all they want, but cannot do anything. I'm not wrong. They've been trying to get this law for a very long time, they haven't yet, they won't.

 

I told you, and I will again. Google(owner of wiki and YouTube) is probably being sued for something and are trying to get support against it, or it was hacked(like Facebook)

 

Honestly DesiferKnight, I'm completely convinced that you don't understand what SOPA and PIPA are at all.

Both of these bills are supposed to prevent piracy. It wouldn't actually shut down these illegal pirating sites, especially since most of them are from outside the United States. It would however sue Google for not blocking out these sites in their search results. There's apparently a loophole around that though; if you can type in the IP address of the site, you would be able to bypass the censor. Site's that provide links or ways around the censor would be sued as well. Also, copyrighted material could not be posted anywhere without permission or royalties being paid (I believe at least, could be wrong on that part). Sites like Youtube would likely be sued out of existence (like Napster was). Facebook and social networking sites would be sued as well if their members post anything illegal, so those sites would have to censor their users completely. Intellectual property would come into play too, which is where Wikipedia comes into the picture. Also, if the US were to pass such a bill, it would ultimately affect the global internet because many countries would likely follow in our footsteps.

Basically this bill is in existence because Hollywood production companies and big time record labels are trying to make more money. Many of the endorsers of both bills have slowly but steadily been taking their name off the bills, including a few today. Barack Obama has also gone against these bills, as well as many bands (yeah, actual artists who are being affected more than record labels). The likelihood of these being passed are diminishing, but it does not hurt to sign a petition (or multiple like I have, since this affects freedoms of speech and knowledge).

KHP would have nothing to worry about unless members post illegal things.

Also, Destiny, state isn't technically a branch of government. Judical (Supreme Court), Executive (President) and Legislative (Congress) are the three branches of government. But I really don't feel like getting into an American social studies lesson at the moment

 

-___- I did not even understand half of Desifer's sentences. Please spell better. As for my opinion, Nicole, Starkiller and I has no intentions of even plagiarizing or pirating any information at all and even when I put up my articles, I always state as to which company released the information and what the company is doing. Everything else, I leave all of you guys to wreck your brains at this. I am not going to join in.

 

You are right with that, Flash, I don't know why for some reason I was thinking state was separate.

I did look into what the big deal is, this law is against google as I suspected. The internet is not dying. If you search the who's online you'll see goggle bot and etc. Those bots spy on you. Cookies do the same. What this law is preventing google and what not to basically spy on you and promote specific things for you.

Also now I'm not getting into this thing fully because all I know is nothing is going to change, but if square enix thought we were a threaten to them, they'd sue us, but they won't because 1.) were too small, 2.) we actually help promote Kingdom Hearts.