SOPA and PIPA are the newest assaults on individual liberties in this country. The Digital Millennium Copyright Act already protects the rights of copyright holders. This law is all about control. Imagine a world where Wikipedia no longer exists, and all information is owned by corporations. THAT is what these laws are ultimately about. The implementation of these bills will also cause security issues. It sounds like an opportunity for spammers and virus writers…
A group of prominent Internet inventors and engineers sent an open letter to members of the United States Congress, stating their opposition to the SOPA and PIPA Internet blacklist bills….
“…Censorship of Internet infrastructure will inevitably cause network errors and security problems. This is true in China, Iran and other countries that censor the network today; it will be just as true of American censorship. It is also true regardless of whether censorship is implemented via the DNS, proxies, firewalls, or any other method. Types of network errors and insecurity that we wrestle with today will become more widespread, and will affect sites other than those blacklisted by the American government.” … Read More
via An Open Letter From Internet Engineers to the U.S. Congress
John “TotalBiscuit” Bain is a UK Law graduate, professional gaming commentator and journalist.
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