Linky! draft language of the bill is here : link

The new version is pretty much a re-worded version of the old bill : COICA : Coica Info with little of significance changed.

Call your Representative and demand they stop this abortion!
Edit : whoops. URL shenanigans.
Edit2 : Frack me, this forum and URLs!!

I don't understand... it's like a series of tubes, right?

The internets, how the fuck do they work?

Activision supports this? :| Die, Bobby!

No, it's not.

But wait until this passes in US-Land, and we're forced to implement it, too. You think Digital Economy Act is bad, wait until that mess is forced on us :\

It's an internet meme.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Series_of_tubes

I know. I'm just too tired to play at the moment :P

Chinese Firewall? in my America??

As if half or more of the rest of our stuff doesn't come from China...

Sorry.

As for this? Scary. BUT, even if it passes, with the way businesses here work at worst it'll last a couple of years before they realize "OMG this is cutting into our incomes ABORT ABORT ABORT" and it's all back to normal. Well, normal for America.

They actually use unemployment as an excuse to pass this bill? Lol! What's even dumber is that they believe that they can use blacklists to stop the "problem". LOLOL.

At least we now know that piracy has been the ultimate cause of our horrible economy. (obvious sarcasm)

As I understand it, the internet is more like a bunch of trucks that you can just dump info on.

The fact that this is even being discussed juss goes to show how incredibly foolish it is to trust anyone in the American gov't: CIA, FBI, White House, Supreme Court, you name it, fuck'em all.

Even if this dies with this attempt, something akin to this will eventually be passed through. It's inevitable.

Not only are virtually all the politicians bought and sold like an auction house to the highest bidder, but most Americans are so brainwashed to believe something like this would actually protect them on the internet that organizing any serious resistance would be exceedingly hard.

In fact, I'm willing to bet that within the next twenty four hours, someone (or more the one) will walk in here extolling the virtues of an idea like this to stop piracy. Because giving up freedom for imaginary protection is a fair trade

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American politicians needed 9/11/01 in order to create & enforce the Patriot Act, which has effectively killed the Constitution (or rendered it moot; it's your choice of semantics).

Similarly, in order for something like this bill in question to pass, all the major ISP's will have to deliberately sabotage their services in a co-ordinated and pre-planned attack, seriously fucking over a massive number of thier American patrons in rendering all their personal e-business dealings in accessable and under the care of a bogeyman (China perhaps? American politicians love to point the finger at them already in order to shift blame away from themselves and the banks that they're in bed with), and thereafter act like this bill is the blue pill ("and its better than the red pill, okay!") that'll make their internet safer.

Given that the American gov't already has the authority to lie to the public under the guise of 'protecting American interests' long before 9/11/01 (it's been happening since the 40's, when witnesses of the Roswell crash had their civil rights abused & threatened in order to keep them quiet), and that many Americans tend to overlook their government's abuses (re: the CIA using LSD on patients in Montreal in the 80s against their will in mind control experiments), I'd say it's already in the works behind closed doors.

Perhaps it can be stopped though. For the 1st time, we're really living in a time where intelligent and powerful people very much mistrust the American gov't. And other countries aren't scared of American politicians anymore.

I'm certainly no expert, but I wonder how this might relate to prior restraint.