[Solar-general] Fwd: [FSF] Stop the Internet Blacklist legislation

[Diego Saravia]

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From: Free Software Foundation <info en fsf.org>
Date: 2011/11/4
Subject: [FSF] Stop the Internet Blacklist legislation
To: Diego Saravia <diego.saravia en gmail.com>


Join us, EFF, Demand Progress, and Fight for The Future in opposing the
latest round of Internet Blacklist legislation.

Take action and sign petitions on the following sites:

   - EFF<https://wfc2.wiredforchange.com/o/9042/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=%208173>
   - Demand Progress <http://act.demandprogress.org/sign/protectip_docs>
   - Fight For the Future <http://fightforthefuture.org/pipa/>

The EFF explains the legislation, which is titled the PROTECT-IP Act in the
Senate and SOPA in the House, as follows:

As drafted, the legislation would grant the government and private parties
unprecedented power to interfere with the Internet's domain name system
(DNS). The government would be able to force ISPs and search engines to
redirect or dump users' attempts to reach certain websites' URLs. In
response, third parties will woo average users to alternative servers that
offer access to the entire Internet (not just the newly censored U.S.
version), which will create new computer security vulnerabilities as the
reliability and universality of the DNS evaporates.

It gets worse: Under SOPA's provisions, service providers (including
hosting services) would be under new pressure to monitor and police their
users’ activities. While PROTECT-IP targeted sites “dedicated to infringing
activities,” SOPA targets websites that simply don’t do enough to track and
police infringement (and it is not at all clear what would be enough). And
it creates new powers to shut down folks who provide tools to help users
get access to the Internet the rest of the world sees (not just the “U.S.
authorized version”).

This legislation is an example of the severely flawed thinking you get when
approaching issues in terms of "intellectual
property<http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/not-ipr.html>
".

We helped stop this bill
before<http://www.fsf.org/blogs/community/the-internet-blacklist-coica-is-back-take-action-before-thursday>,
but now it's back under a different name. Please take a minute and help
stop this one too!



In Solidarity,

Josh, John, Matt, and Richard

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