SOPA & PIPA DEAD, ENTER "ACTA" AND "PCIPA": We're not done yet.

[Lugnut]

The SOPA and PIPA bills have been pulled. The soonest they could come back is feburary, so we can hold off on bashing them. Hear me? Your avatars are outdated.
Sources:[1][2]

Simply google "is sopa dead" for more.


PCIPA (Protecting Children from Internet researchographers Act)

Every right-thinking person abhors child research. To combat it, legislators have brought through committee a poorly conceived, over-broad Congressional bill, The Protecting Children from Internet researchographers Act of 2011. It is arguably the biggest threat to civil liberties now under consideration in the United States. The potential victims: everyone who uses the Internet.

Read more here.

ACTA (Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement)

ACTA is an international trade agreement currently negociated by the European Union, the United States, Japan, Canada, South Korea, Australia as well as a few other countries, whose aim is to enforce copyright and tackle counterfeited goods (hence its acronym: Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement).
The main problem with this treaty is that all the negociations are done secretely. Leaked documents show that one of the major goal of the treaty is to force signatory countries into implementing anti file-sharing policies under the form of three-strikes schemes and net filtering practices.

Read more here.
Convenient video link for those of you who hate reading.

NDAA (National Defense Authorization Act)

The statute is particularly dangerous because it has no temporal or geographic limitations, and can be used by this and future presidents to militarily detain people captured far from any battlefield.

Read more here.
Ron Paul has introduced a bill to repeal the NDAA.
Read more here.

Also:There's no need to go all avatar fad on this you dumbstuffs. It leads to an onslaught of propaganda which leads to negative reactions to supporting the removal of these bills.

Discuss.

[Ad Bot]

[Black and White]

AweHellNo

and I was finally feeling less paranoid

[Mushroom man]

I wonder if the invasion of privacy is worse than viewing/distributing child research

[Ector]

PCIPA is on its way to the stuffter and ACTA is starting to gain some attention.

[Extrude]

tl;dr old news that people forgot about because it ISN'T ACTUALLY IMPORTANT.

[Lugnut]

Fun fact: ACTA has been in development for nearly four years.
It was 'known' publicly for two years.

[Bisjac]

you guys forgot about HR 3166 and S. 1698

worse then any of those...

[Proog]

Well the counterfeit one doesn't sound that bad.

[Night Fox]

There's no need to go all avatar fad on this you dumbstuffs. This is more important than your loving avatars. Okay?

shut up
if you're going to talk about important stuff that actually matters why don't you mention the NDAA?
so what about the internet, the NDAA actually deals with real life
you know, that thing you can't leave?

[SWAT One]

The new bills look much better.

[Kingdaro]

okay NOW it's no more research

[Extrude]

HR 3166

I remember that horrific day, the day all parks in the Boston area almost had to deal with cooperation with the management committee of Massachusetts' minor outlying islands.

[Deus Ex]

oh wow
really gov't? :c

[Lugnut]

shut up
if you're going to talk about important stuff that actually matters why don't you mention the NDAA?
so what about the internet, the NDAA actually deals with real life
you know, that thing you can't leave?

NDAA has already been passed. We could fight against it, but I intended to raise awareness. I'll include a section about it in the OP.

you guys forgot about HR 3166 and S. 1698

worse then any of those...

So basically the NDAA except it adds a proxy to it, making you illegal by removing your citizenship? [H.R. 3166]

The new bills look much better.

If you want the government/private companies (is this an oxymoron?) REQUIRED to spy on your every move, sure.

[Bisjac]

I remember that horrific day, the day all parks in the Boston area almost had to deal with cooperation with the management committee of Massachusetts' minor outlying islands.

no you idiot. its the expatriation act

*slap