Great Firewall for make glorious U.S. internets!

[Hoser McRhizzy]

Just remember: They're not making blacklists.  The politically-neutral technical term is BLOCKlist. 

The Combating Online Infringement and Counterfeits Act, recently introduced in the U.S. Senate, would potentially force Internet providers, domain name registrars (companies that register domain names) and domain name registries (organizations that maintain the domain name database) to block access to specified domain names.

This domain name block list – already being dubbed the Great Firewall of America – would be created through a censorship court order obtained by the U.S. Attorney General. The court order could be used to shut down a site located within the U.S. or to order Internet providers to block access to the domain name if the site resides outside the country.

Moreover, the Department of Justice could identify additional domain names that are "dedicated to infringing activities." Despite the absence of any court oversight, this second list would also likely involve blocked domains since Internet providers would be immune from liability provided they curtail access to them.

This notably targets websites located anywhere in the world, since any domain – wherever located – may placed on the list. In fact, since the core of the domain name system resides in the U.S., it is possible that the site could be blocked at a global level if it was removed or rendered inaccessible from the "master" domain name database.

more at this heah link.  Apologies if it's already been posted.

[Doktor Howl]

LAND OF THE FREE!   

Rhizome, don't you wish YOU lived in America™, instead of Red Canada?

[Freeky]

 

[Doktor Howl]

Hey, they're protecting you from badwrong ideas.

Some people have no gratitude.

[Elder Iptuous]

wtf....
i saw this and thought, 'Oh that's some cockamamy shit that wont get any support....'  so i look on govtrack to confirm, and this shit already has 14 cosponsors?!

hopefully wont make it anywhere near leaving committee...

Introduced by:
Sen. Patrick Leahy [D-VT]
Cosponsors:
Evan Bayh [D-IN]
Benjamin Cardin [D-MD]
Thomas Coburn [R-OK]
Richard Durbin [D-IL]
Dianne Feinstein [D-CA]
Lindsey Graham [R-SC]
Charles Grassley [R-IA]
Orrin Hatch [R-UT]
Amy Klobuchar [D-MN]
Herbert Kohl [D-WI]
Charles Schumer [D-NY]
Arlen Specter [D-PA]
George Voinovich [R-OH]
Sheldon Whitehouse [D-RI]

[The Johnny]

OHHH this gives a totally creepy and morbid twist to a Tori Amos song:

China all the way to New York
I can feel the distance getting close
You're right next to me
but I need an airplane
I can feel the distance as you breathe

Sometimes I think you want me to touch you
How can I when you build the Great Wall around you
In your eyes I saw a future together
But you just look away in the distance

China decorates our table
Funny how the cracks don't seem to show
Pour the wine dear
You say we'll take a holiday
But we never can agree on where to go

Sometimes I think you want to me to touch you
But how can I when you build the Great Wall around you
In your eyes I saw a future together
But you just look away in the distance

China all the way to New York
Maybe you got lost in Mexico
You're right next to me
I think that you can hear me
Funny how the distance learns to grow

Sometimes I think you want me to touch you
But how can I when you build the Great Wall around you

I can feel the distance getting close

Can you feel the distance getting close?

[Salty]

I was expecting something like this, it's inevitable. But I didn't expect it so soon.

Goddamned pigfuckers.

[Doktor Howl]

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

Voinivich, we hardly knew ya!  Siding with Hatch?  Oh, my!  

My guess is, it sails through committee gathering riders like barnacles, and will be opposed by Russ Feingold and the ghost of William Howard Taft, and nobody else.

And nobody will do much of anything to stop it.  Americans simply don't have the concern or the intestinal fortitude to do a fucking thing the government doesn't allow.

[AFK]

wtf....
i saw this and thought, 'Oh that's some cockamamy shit that wont get any support....'  so i look on govtrack to confirm, and this shit already has 14 cosponsors?!

hopefully wont make it anywhere near leaving committee...

Introduced by:
Sen. Patrick Leahy [D-VT]
Cosponsors:
Evan Bayh [D-IN]
Benjamin Cardin [D-MD]
Thomas Coburn [R-OK]
Richard Durbin [D-IL]
Dianne Feinstein [D-CA]
Lindsey Graham [R-SC]
Charles Grassley [R-IA]
Orrin Hatch [R-UT]
Amy Klobuchar [D-MN]
Herbert Kohl [D-WI]
Charles Schumer [D-NY]
Arlen Specter [D-PA]
George Voinovich [R-OH]
Sheldon Whitehouse [D-RI]

I blame Obama for this, all his hand-wringing and bellyaching about bi-partisanship.  This is a perfect example of why it isn't all it's cracked up to be.  If the only time they're going to get along is when they're doing crap like this, I say, bring on the gridlock!

[Jenne]

This is their answer to the oh-no threat of internet terrorism?  Always and forever it's the curtailing of freedom, rather than education.  Fuckers.  Fucking Feinstein.

[Jasper]

Ugh.

[Doktor Howl]

You people are so ungrateful.   

[LMNO]

Anyone know if using a proxy outside of the US would get around this?

[AFK]

I suppose Chuck Grassley is just trying to protect us from the cyber-Death Panels that wanna invade the hospitals and pull the plug on Grandma.  

[Doktor Howl]

I suppose Chuck Grassley is just trying to protect us from the cyber-Death Panels that wanna invade the hospitals and pull the plug on Grandma.  

And Dick Durbin did it so nobody would yell at him.