USA CENSURERAR HELA INTERNET???

_{USA PRESENTERAR:
*}

_{...DET STÖRSTA HOTET MOT}

_{INTERNET - NÅGONSIN...}

När som helst kan webbsajter som YOU-TUBE, FACEBOOK och alla Torrent-sajterna etc, etc, vara ett minne blott.
USA håller på att rösta igenom en Internetcensur som i stort sätt kan jämföras med den Kinesiska.



Amerikanska politiker har också haft den kinesiska brandväggen som förebild när de upprättat lagförslaget:"Protect IP Act" och "Stop Online Piracy Act- SOPA". " Om det går att genomföra i Kina så går det här också" är inställningen Hollywood sålt till politikerna som lydigt följer dollarmiljardärernas krav.

- I ett öppet brev till den amerikanska kongressen vädjar nu grundarna av storsajter som YouTube, Twitter, eBay och Wikipedia till politikerna att tänka om innan de inför de två nya internetlagarna.

Hotar stänga Wikipedia

Wikipedia-grundaren Jimmy Wales, som alltså är en av undertecknarna till det öppna brevet, kan tänka sig att ta till ytterligare medel för att protestera mot SOPA. I veckan sade han att han kan tänka sig att stänga ned hela den engelskspråkiga delen av Wikipedia för att visa på konsekvenserna om lagen går igenom.

Aktionen är tänkt att skapa ett så stort tryck som möjligt på USA:s politiker.
*

17 personer skrev under brevet.
(Inom parentes företaget eller sajten de varit med om att grunda.)

_{Marc Andreessen (Netscape)
Mitchell Baker (Mozilla Firefox)
Sergey Brin (Google)
Jack Dorsey (Twitter)
Caterina Fake (Flickr)
David Filo (Yahoo!)
Reid Hoffman (Linkedln)
Arianna Huffington (The Huffington Post)
Chad Hurley (YouTube)
Brewster Kahle (Internet Archive)
Elon Musk (PayPal)
Craig Newmark (craiglist)
Pierre Omidyar (eBay)
Biz Stone (Obvious/Twitter)
Jimmy Wales (Wikipedia)
Evan Williams (Blogger/Twitter)
Jerry Yang (Yahoo!)}

LÄS ORIGINALBREVET HÄR! (PDF)

Anonymous: SOPA passed. We are displeased.

*

S O P A  -  P I P A

The bill would authorize the U.S. Department of Justice to seek court orders against websites outside U.S. jurisdiction accused of infringing on copyrights, or of enabling or facilitating copyright infringement. 

After delivering a court order, the U.S. Attorney-General could require US-directed Internet service providers, ad networks, and payment processors to suspend doing business with sites found to infringe on federal criminal intellectual property laws. The Attorney-General could also bar search engines from displaying links to the sites.

The bill also establishes a two-step process for intellectual property rights holders to seek relief if they have been harmed by a site dedicated to infringement. The rights holder must first notify, in writing, related payment facilitators and ad networks of the identity of the website, who, in turn, must then forward that notification and suspend services to that identified website, unless that site provides a counter notification explaining how it is not in violation. 

The rights holder can then sue for limited injunctive relief against the site operator, if such a counter notification is provided, or if the payment or advertising services fail to suspend service in the absence of a counter notification.

*

S O P A  -  P I P A

The bill provides immunity from liability to the ad and payment networks that comply with this Act or that take voluntary action to cut ties to such sites. 

Any copyright holder who knowingly misrepresents that a website is dedicated to infringement would be liable for damages. The second section increases the penalties for streaming video and for selling counterfeit drugs, military materials or consumer goods. 

The bill would make unauthorized streaming of copyrighted content a felony.

According to co-sponsor Representative Bob Goodlatte (R-VA), chairman of the House Judiciary Committee's Intellectual Property sub-panel, SOPA represents a rewrite of the PROTECT IP Act to address tech industry concerns. 

Goodlatte told The Hill that the new version requires court approval for action against search engines.The Senate version, PROTECT IP, does not.

S O P A  -  P I P A

Threat to online freedom of speech

According to the EFF, proxy servers, such as those used during the Arab Spring, can also be used to thwart copyright enforcement and therefore may be made illegal by the act.

On Time's Techland blog, Jerry Brito wrote, "Imagine if the U.K. created a blacklist of American newspapers that its courts found violated celebrities' privacy? Or what if France blocked American sites it believed contained hate speech?"

Similarly, the Center for Democracy and Technology warned, "If SOPA and PIPA are enacted, the US government must be prepared for other governments to follow suit, in service to whatever social policies they believe are important—whether restricting hate speech, insults to public officials, or political dissent."

The AFL-CIO's Paul Almeida, arguing in favor of SOPA, stated that free speech was not a relevant consideration, because "The First Amendment does not protect stealing goods off trucks."

Stop Online Piracy Act

The Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA), also known as H.R. 3261, is a bill that was introduced in the United States House of Representatives on October 26, 2011, by Representative Lamar Smith (R-TX) and a bipartisan group of 12 initial co-sponsors. 

The bill expands the ability of U.S. law enforcement and copyright holders to fight online trafficking in copyrighted intellectual property and counterfeit goods.Now before the House Judiciary Committee, it builds on the similar PRO-IP Act of 2008 and the corresponding Senate bill, the Protect IP Act.

The originally proposed bill would allow the U.S. Department of Justice, as well as copyright holders, to seek court orders against websites accused of enabling or facilitating copyright infringement. Depending on who requests the court orders, the actions could include barring online advertising networks and payment facilitators such as PayPal from doing business with the allegedly infringing website, barring search engines from linking to such sites, and requiring Internet service providers to block access to such sites.

- The bill would make unauthorized streaming of copyrighted content a crime, with a maximum penalty of five years in prison for 10 pieces of music or movies within six months.

The bill also gives immunity to Internet services that voluntarily take action against websites dedicated to infringement, while making liable for damages any copyright holder who knowingly misrepresents that a website is dedicated to infringement.

Mozilla asks users to join:
‘Stop SOPA & PIPA’ campaign

Following in the footsteps of Google, Facebook, Tumblr and other tech companies, Mozilla is taking steps to help block the passage of SOPA and PIPA, legislation that have the potential to fundamentally change the Internet.

The end of the Internet as we know it may be right around the corner — but not if the Mozilla Foundation has anything to say about it. The maker of Firefox, a non-profit organization, has launched a campaign to help block the passage of both the ‘Stop Online Piracy Act’ (SOPA) and the ‘Protect IP Act’ (PIPA), each of which may soon go up for a vote in Congress. LÄS HÄR

RÄDDA INTERNET, PROTESTERA HÄR

To all Members of the US Congress:

As concerned global citizens, we call on you to stand for a free and open Internet and vote against both the Protect IP Act and the Stop Online Piracy Act. The Internet is a crucial tool for people around the world to exchange ideas and work collectively to build the world we all want. We urge you to show true global leadership and do all you can to protect this basic pillar of our democracies worldwide.

Faktatext om SOPA från: WIKI.
Fullständig text med hänvisning till källmaterial finns på:

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

*Viktig Video om S.O.P.A.

undermattan.blogg

Publicerat som Information. Texter och bilder tillhör sina respektive upphovsmän
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------