Could The Government Really Shut Down Facebook?
Darth Beaver
Meine Ehre heißt Treue
This is just another baby step towards removing our freedom of information, expression, and speech. The government wants to control what you read and where you read it. This is just one small chip at our our freedom to decide what we read and where we read it.
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Boys and girls it is time to wake up and take back the country that the lazy baby boomers gave to their corporate masters. Contact your representatives and tell them, "Awww, fuck no, it ain't gonna happen on our watch motherfucker!"
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If you think this can't happen it already has. Here is a link to the complaint in this case.Will you watch the video and donate $5 or $10 so we can continue our work? You can donate using ActBlue or PayPal at right. The scope of the threat to Internet freedom is astounding:
- The Combating Online Infringement and Counterfeits Act (the "Internet Blacklist Bill") would block your access to sites the government says are engaging in even small amounts of copyright infringement -- no matter what other content they house.
- The government just arrested one website operator for linking to other sites.
Industries with deep pockets can pay people big bucks to shill for them in Washington. Your pockets might not be as deep, but there are hundreds of thousands of you, and we need your support so we can keep fighting back.Will you donate $5 or $10 to Demand Progress so we can continue our work?
- Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) have been seizing domain names without due process: they shut down 84,000 sites by accident last month, and government officials think ICE and DHS are claiming powers that would even let them shut down Facebook.
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Breaking: Newly Obtained Homeland Security Documents Reveal Radical Shift In Internet Policy
FIGHT BACK: Internet user arrested for linking to other websites.
Brian McCarthy ran a website, channelsurfing.net, that linked to various sites where you could watch online streams of TV shows and sports networks. A couple months ago, the government seized his domain name and on Friday they arrested him and charged him with criminal copyright infringement -- punishable by five years in prison.
We just obtained a copy of the complaint (below) that the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) made against him -- and they don't even allege that he made a copy of anything! Just that he ran what they call a "linking website" which linked to various sites with copyrighted material. Under that sort of thinking, everyone who's sent around a link to a copyrighted YouTube video is a criminal.
This is another shocking overreach by DHS and ICE -- a steamship-era department that's proving once again that it doesn't understand the Internet. We need to push back -- and fast -- before they try to lock up more Americans.
PETITION TO JANET NAPOLITANO, DIRECTOR OF HOMELAND SECURITY, AND JOHN MORTON, DIRECTOR OF IMMIGRATION AND CUSTOMS ENFORCEMENT: There's nothing wrong or illegal about posting a link to a website. This is another shocking overreach by DHS and ICE: You need to drop the charges against Brian McCarthy right away.
Just sign on by filling out the form at right -- we'll deliver the petition to DHS and ICE later this month.
Boys and girls it is time to wake up and take back the country that the lazy baby boomers gave to their corporate masters. Contact your representatives and tell them, "Awww, fuck no, it ain't gonna happen on our watch motherfucker!"
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UPRISING!!
that right there says they are combining
forces to keep your mind plugged in
to what they want you to read, watch, and listen.
If the internet got shut down then we will have to go back to old-school piracy. Pass round CDs and other media. I did it to great effect right up to last year with mates.
QFT. Everyone needs their own planet.
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The closing of innocent sites & threats of jail for their owners are more an implementation of fear. Leaders have been ruling with fear for hundreds of years and today is no different.
Fuck the System!
What gives you the idea that the government (a small handful of people) have the right/freedom to tell everyone else how to live?
Yeah, you're right. The government runs Facebook, as it's basically a giant database of information on everybody. Fuckers :mad:
If I owned a facebook account I may as well ring my local police station whenever I wanna go out & tell them where I'm going and what time I'll be home. It's a sad but true reality .
Couldn't have said it better myself.
Normally I would discourage the posting of single image or video in this section without some commentary relating to the OP on the part of the user. But this was spot on the money, nice video which pretty much says it all about FB. :thumbsup: