November 2011
Dear God, please make Barack Obama release a rap album about his presidency in 2016
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SOPA / PRTCT-IP
The very fundamentals of law and order - the presumption of innocence and the right to a fair trial - are both perverted by this bill, perverted in the worst possible manner - this bill gives the leading corporations the power to destroy smaller startups. Are the wall-marts of the entertainment industry finally getting official endorsement for their killings of local start-ups?
It is surprising how the entertainment industry has managed to warp the very basis of U.S. freedom, and worse, destroy the very principle that makes the Internet a borderless neutral medium. The internet is a medium to conduct affairs, and admittedly some are illegal and fraudulent. However the majority of these matters are helping your country, the U.S., pull itself out of the pit it has fallen in, since 2008.
Will the internet of the U.S. turn into the internet of China? Will the entertainment industry finally have total control of what we see and hear (and perhaps, touch, taste and smell if this goes on in the far future)? Will journalist bloggers be silenced for “pirating news” while simply offering differing analyses of the latest news? Will “alternative sources” like Wikileaks be silenced simply because they do not pay lip service to the authorities?
There is a pre-requisite for such a bill to go well with people - Trust - earn the trust of your men and they will let you lead them, blindfolded, across a battleground.
The United States government (on behalf of the entertainment industry, $$$) has no right to decide the arts we receive and choose to enjoy. Sure, in twenty years time, people might lose the protest fever - but this perverted act will be the final straw pulled from the already shaky foundation of the freedom of the country, and the rights of your People.
I write this as a Singaporean living in Singapore… connected to the internet. The same internet that this bill is about to ruin. Will this be worth the (slight) increase in revenue that the entertainment industry will see? Is personal freedom a commodity to be traded? I really hope not, for the sake of the U.S., if not the world.
Behold A Pale Horse
Halo 3 Original Soundtrack
is this still in E dorian? i can’t tell.
Remember the "borderless" Internet? It's officially dead →
arstechnica.com
The trends have been present for years, but if SOPA passes, it will make them explicit: the chaotic, unfilterable, borderless Internet of the 1990s is truly dead, replaced by an Internet of order, filtered connections, and national borders.
It is interesting that in some countries attempts to filter Internet results in bloody conflicts in the streets, while in others it is done in orderly and parlamentary process and is met with a sigh of relief by the public. The trend is the same: the Internet is circumsized by the traditional hierachical structures who are mortified over that the power is being transferred from the institutions to the individuals.
Fight the “Protect IP” bill! Protect Internet Freedom Instead!
American Censorship Day is this Wednesday! Help raise awareness to keep the internet free and awesome!
[EDIT: More info here:
http://www.americancensorship.org/. http://americancensorship.org/ (No “www”. My bad.)]
this is something a few murders can solve… don’t care for the widowed - their lives aren’t worth the loss this world will incur if this bill passes.
