[clue] [NON-TECHNICAL] Fwd: [FSF] Stop the Internet Blacklist legislation

[Charles W Downing]

Lorin,

The Wired for Change link leads to an impossible-to-get-past error 
detector. It says I must enter something in "Street 2", even though I 
live in my own house, with no second line. How can we trust a site which 
is created by dummies?

On 11/04/2011 03:31 PM, Lorin Ricker wrote:
> With apologies for any perceived political/activist slant, I do think
> that things like the following are important and worth consideration...
> After all, it's *our* Internet, and Congressional intervention cannot
> possibly help make it a better thing.
>
> Please read this, and consider lending your own signature to the online
> petition.  So far, I've found EFF to be very considerate with personal
> information (email address in particular), but make your own decision.
>
> Thanks,
>     -- Lorin
>
> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: 	[FSF] Stop the Internet Blacklist legislation
> Date: 	Fri, 04 Nov 2011 17:17:38 -0400
> From: 	Free Software Foundation<info at fsf.org>
> Reply-To: 	Free Software Foundation<info at fsf.org>
> To: 	Lorin Ricker<lorin at rickernet.us>
>
> Join us, EFF, Demand Progress, and Fight for The Future in opposing the
> latest round of Internet Blacklist legislation.
>
> Take action and sign petitions on the following sites:
>
>       * EFF
>
> <https://wfc2.wiredforchange.com/o/9042/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=%208173>
>       * Demand Progress<http://act.demandprogress.org/sign/protectip_docs>
>       * Fight For the Future<http://fightforthefuture.org/pipa/>
>
> The EFF explains the legislation, which is titled the PROTECT-IP Act in
> the Senate and SOPA in the House, as follows:
>
>       As drafted, the legislation would grant the government and private
>       parties unprecedented power to interfere with the Internet's domain
>       name system (DNS). The government would be able to force ISPs and
>       search engines to redirect or dump users' attempts to reach certain
>       websites' URLs. In response, third parties will woo average users to
>       alternative servers that offer access to the entire Internet (not
>       just the newly censored U.S. version), which will create new
>       computer security vulnerabilities as the reliability and
>       universality of the DNS evaporates.
>
>       It gets worse: Under SOPA's provisions, service providers (including
>       hosting services) would be under new pressure to monitor and police
>       their users’ activities. While PROTECT-IP targeted sites “dedicated
>       to infringing activities,” SOPA targets websites that simply don’t
>       do enough to track and police infringement (and it is not at all
>       clear what would be enough). And it creates new powers to shut down
>       folks who provide tools to help users get access to the Internet the
>       rest of the world sees (not just the “U.S. authorized version”).
>
> This legislation is an example of the severely flawed thinking you get
> when approaching issues in terms of "intellectual property
> <http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/not-ipr.html>".
>
> We helped stop this bill before
> <http://www.fsf.org/blogs/community/the-internet-blacklist-coica-is-back-take-action-before-thursday>,
>
> but now it's back under a different name. Please take a minute and help
> stop this one too!
>
> In Solidarity,
>
> Josh, John, Matt, and Richard
>
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-- 
Chuck Downing
Highlands Ranch, Colorado USA