[clue] [Political] Opposing the US GOV Blacklist bill
Mike Bean
beandaemon at gmail.com
Wed Jun 8 12:02:45 MDT 2011
Can I second the request for more information? Bills like this tend to
villainized pretty quickly, is there any more specific info available?
On Wed, Jun 8, 2011 at 10:41 AM, <dennisjperkins at comcast.net> wrote:
> I thought they had driven a stake thru the heart of this bill. For those
> who are unaware of what this is about, a bill has been introduced that would
> require ISPs and browsers to block access to blacklisted sites. This is
> part of an intellectual property bill that Hollywood and others are
> pushing. Who decides what should be on the blacklisted sites? Probably not
> the courts, so no trial to establish guilt. My guess would be Homeland
> Security, which is already seizing suspected domains.
>
> Even if the courts could approve who goes onto the lists, I think it would
> still be unconstitutional. It's too easy for someone to slip something,
> like a news site, into the list. Or any site critical of the govt, etc. If
> something can be misused, it will be. So don't give them the chance to
> misuse it.
>
>
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