Help Stop This Bill From Passing!

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COICA November 12, Update: The Senate Judiciary Committee has scheduled a markup Nov. 18 on S. 3804, Combating Online Infringement and Counterfeits Act. Remember to contact your representatives to let them know your opinion on the proposed bill. To find out who are the senators on your state and their contact information, you can visit the U.S. Senate website, by clicking here In the United States, a new law proposal called The Combating Online Infringement and Counterfeits Act (COICA) was introduced last week, and there will be a hearing in front of the Judiciary Committee this Thursday. If passed, this law will allow the government, under the command of the media companies, to censor the internet as they see fit, like China and Iran do, with the difference that the sites they decide to censor will be completely removed from the internet and not just in the US. Please see the following article from the Huffington Post for more information. Stop the Internet Blacklist And if you are a US citizen, please take the time to sign this petition DemandProgress.org - Petition to Stop the Internet Blacklist! Update: Also for US citizens, you can email your Senator from the following link and tell him or her your concerns about this bill Tell Your Senator: No Website Blacklists, No Internet Censorship! Update, from EFF's website: the Senate Judiciary Committee postponed the scheduled markup of the Internet censorship bill — a fantastic outcome, given that the entertainment industry and their allies in Congress had hoped this bill would be quickly approved before the Senators went home for the October recess. Massive thanks to all who used the EFF Action Center to write to your Senators to oppose this bill.

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I must admit, I never thought the Huffing Puffington Post would ever be on the correct side of ANYthing except a gravestone. I guess everyone has a redemption somewhere deep within!

But then again it would be in their self interest to not support this bit of legislative shit so I guess that would be sufficient motivation.

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I don't care who supports it as long as its the right thing to do.

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An update on the progress of this. I made this topic a sticky as well because the events that are going on are too important to let this get buried.

The bill has passed. The government slipped in a bill to regulate the internet over the holidays when the news was all about Obama golfing in Hawaii.
We now can be watched, regulated and restricted at the governments will.

And this may interest you too:

Torrent Finder Domain Seizure
From their site: On Thursday, the 25th of November 2010, the Torrent Finder domain ( www.torrent-finder.com ), registered with Godaddy, was seized by the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) without any prior takedown notice or specific allegations of infringing activity. The Domain IP was suddenly changed without the registrar's knowledge and the system displayed a "Pending Registry Action" message on the domain's status. No contact was given until Wednesday, the 1st of December, when Godaddy replied to my inquiries, giving a contact for an ICE agent. On Thursday, the 2nd of December, David Snead who is representing Torrent Finder contacted the ICE agent in charge who told him that "the orders are under seal, but that the seal will be lifted today or tomorrow". However, we have not heard from them until writing this post. Another email from Godaddy clarified that the action was taken by VeriSign: "please understand that these actions were taken by Verisign at the Registry level; and not by Go Daddy". The story was first reported on TorrentFreak and NYTimes.com. Please give them a visit and show your support by clicking here

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Does this thing have any connection to the SOPA and PIPA stuff going on now?

How did this fare? Is it over or still in battle as well?