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US Senate Bill S.3804 - Allows Government To Shutdown Whistleblower Websites
November 15, 2010
US Senate Bill S.3804 - Allows Government To Shutdown Whistleblower Websites
Stop the Internet Blacklist Oppose US Senate Bill S.3804
Just the other day, President Obama 
urged other countries to stop censoring the Internet. But now the United States Congress is trying to censor the Internet here at home. A new bill being debated this week would have the Attorney General create an Internet blacklist of sites that US Internet providers would be required to block. (The first vote is scheduled Thursday!)
This bill giving the government the power to shut down Web sites that host materials that infringe copyright is making its way quietly through the lame-duck session of Congress, raising the ire of free-speech groups and prompting a group of academics to lobby against the effort.
The Combating Online Infringement and Counterfeits Act (COICA) was introduced in Congress this fall by Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-VT). It would grant the federal government the power to block access to any Web domain that is found to host copyrighted material without permission.
Critics say the bill is both a giveaway to the movie and recording industries and a step towards widespread and unaccountable censorship of the Internet.
Opponents note that the powers given the government under the bill are very broad. Because the bill targets domain names and not specific materials, an entire Web site can be shut down. So for example, if the US determines that there are copyright-infringing materials on YouTube, it could theoretically block access to all of YouTube, whether or not particular material being accessed infringes copyright.
Activist group DemandProgress, which is running a petition against the bill, argues the powers in the bill could be used for political purposes. If the whistleblower Web site WikiLeaks is found to be hosting copyrighted material, for instance, access to WikiLeaks could be blocked for all US Internet users.
Though the bill was delayed in September after an outcry from activist groups, it now appears to be back and potentially poised for quick passage in the lame-duck session of Congress.
This is the kind of heavy-handed censorship you'd expect from a dictatorship, where one man can decide what web sites you're not allowed to visit. But the Senate Judiciary Committee is expected to pass the bill as soon as they get back after the election -- and Senators say they haven't heard much in the way of objections! That's why we need you to sign our urgent petition to Congress demanding they oppose the Internet blacklist.
Take a Action Now
urged other countries to stop censoring the Internet. But now the United States Congress is trying to censor the Internet here at home. A new bill being debated this week would have the Attorney General create an Internet blacklist of sites that US Internet providers would be required to block. (The first vote is scheduled Thursday!)This bill giving the government the power to shut down Web sites that host materials that infringe copyright is making its way quietly through the lame-duck session of Congress, raising the ire of free-speech groups and prompting a group of academics to lobby against the effort.
The Combating Online Infringement and Counterfeits Act (COICA) was introduced in Congress this fall by Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-VT). It would grant the federal government the power to block access to any Web domain that is found to host copyrighted material without permission.
Critics say the bill is both a giveaway to the movie and recording industries and a step towards widespread and unaccountable censorship of the Internet.
Opponents note that the powers given the government under the bill are very broad. Because the bill targets domain names and not specific materials, an entire Web site can be shut down. So for example, if the US determines that there are copyright-infringing materials on YouTube, it could theoretically block access to all of YouTube, whether or not particular material being accessed infringes copyright.
Activist group DemandProgress, which is running a petition against the bill, argues the powers in the bill could be used for political purposes. If the whistleblower Web site WikiLeaks is found to be hosting copyrighted material, for instance, access to WikiLeaks could be blocked for all US Internet users.
Though the bill was delayed in September after an outcry from activist groups, it now appears to be back and potentially poised for quick passage in the lame-duck session of Congress.
This is the kind of heavy-handed censorship you'd expect from a dictatorship, where one man can decide what web sites you're not allowed to visit. But the Senate Judiciary Committee is expected to pass the bill as soon as they get back after the election -- and Senators say they haven't heard much in the way of objections! That's why we need you to sign our urgent petition to Congress demanding they oppose the Internet blacklist.
Take a Action Now
PETITION TO THE SENATE: Censoring the Internet is something we'd expect from China or Iran, not the U.S. Senate. You need to stop this Internet blacklist in its tracks and oppose S. 3804.
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Half Past Human was recently shut down for the 3rd time ... they hostted articles like the ones posted here, and on my site ... and many other sites on the internet.
http://cryptome.org/0001/bilderberg-2010.htm
http://www.jeremiahproject.com/newworldorder/nworder04.html
Pretty cool interacive map that lists the most current UFO activity.
http://ufocasebook.com/ (good updates here too!)
NOVEMBER 19- Alien Armada over Poland
Major Cities: Poland
Also inclued are: VIDEOS from OCTOBER 13, 2010 News Media Coverage!
http://www.theepochtimes.com/n2/content/view/44238/
Check out this too!: https://earthchanges.ning.com/profiles/blogs/articles-on-ufos-over-nyc
Tonight November 18th to the 19th I will be on Coast To Coast AM with George Noory from 2 AM to 5 AM Eastern time. I live in Maine and will be covering all your favorite topics in a way that should blow your socks off because I will tell you how I did it on my own and started lecturing in public in 1990 on the subject of "Extraterrestrial Contact With Planet Earth" about how ETs are interested in contacting unselfish humans, and that we are about to have pole shift and after that ETs will help rebuild the earth and then we will move to a higher dimension and begin building a fleet of space ships to leave the earth and be known throughout the universe as those to whom no problem can't be solved.
Hope you enjoy it. It will be on over 500 radio stations around the world, and I will be mentioning how in 2006 when Janet and I looked around to see who, if anyone, was saying the same thing, we found ZetaTalk. I will leave out nothing if there is the time to do it. I will tell how I taught myself telepathy and remote projection, psychic abilities through empathy, and meditation, and my early ET experiences and how I asked the ETs for a partner and read them a list and one year later went out to lecture on UFOs and met Janet and how we live the less is more lifestyle with no plumbing, heating with wood, and living on a mountaintop on the coast of Maine.
Say a prayer for me that it is good and raises the publicity for these subjects. I think millions are disillusioned with everything and hungry for the truth and where to turn for heartfelt truth.
Thank you all.
Salmon Idaho - Scientists at Idaho State University have mapped a previously unknown and active seismic fault in the Northern Rockies, capable of unleasing an earthquake with a magnitude as high as 7.5.
(http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20101118/sc_nm/us_idaho_seismic).
http://www.terradaily.com/reports/Up_to_six_more_months_of_Pakistan_flood_water_EU_official_999.html
