Online Piracy Bill Changed; Still Stinks (Cato Institute)
http://j.mp/ubmU2l (Cato)
"On Thursday, the House Judiciary Committee is slated to take up the
misleadingly named Stop Online Piracy Act, an Internet censorship bill
that will do little to actually stop piracy. In response to an
outpouring of opposition from cybersecurity professionals, First
Amendment scholars, technology entrepreneurs, and ordinary Internet
users, the bill's sponsors have cooked up an amended version that
trims or softens a few of the most egregious provisions of the
original proposal, bringing it closer to its Senate counterpart,
PROTECT-IP. But the fundamental problem with SOPA has never been these
details; it's the core idea. The core idea is still to create an
Internet blacklist, which means everything I say in this video still
holds true ..."
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--Lauren--
Lauren Weinstein ([email protected]): http://www.vortex.com/lauren
Co-Founder: People For Internet Responsibility: http://www.pfir.org
Founder:
- Network Neutrality Squad: http://www.nnsquad.org
- Global Coalition for Transparent Internet Performance: http://www.gctip.org
- PRIVACY Forum: http://www.vortex.com
Member: ACM Committee on Computers and Public Policy
Blog: http://lauren.vortex.com
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