You can bypass all of the gate keepers with the right equipment. Just like how people receive international television with the use of home satellite dishes. In some places, even the descrambler box is legal.
...the founding fathers also used the Constitution to grant congress the right to write copyright law
The laws were written by the entertainment industry for the better part of a century. They were only passed by Congress because the people were for the most part, uninformed and unaffected.
So who's started the betting pool on which industry position Lamar Smith will get once he's out of office? I got $20 on a do-nothing executive position at Universal.
“A few months ago, the Italian Wikipedia community made a decision to blank all of Italian Wikipedia for a short period in order to protest a law which would infringe on their editorial independence. The Italian Parliament backed down immediately.”
The ones seeking alternate DNS are ... others willing to engage in illegal conduct.
Like expressing a difference of opinion, or practicing a different religion, or criticizing the government, or giving a bad review of a specific business practice, or exposing the illegal activities of a corporate entity, or...
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I don't want to play this game. I'd die of alcohol poisoning.
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Why does it matter what affiliation a politician falls under?
The support may be bi-partisan. But the opposition is non-partisan. Meaning people on all sides of the political spectrum reject it.
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The laws were written by the entertainment industry for the better part of a century. They were only passed by Congress because the people were for the most part, uninformed and unaffected.
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Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales
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Like expressing a difference of opinion, or practicing a different religion, or criticizing the government, or giving a bad review of a specific business practice, or exposing the illegal activities of a corporate entity, or...
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WAIT A MOMENT!
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The policies supposedly protect schools, but what it really does is remove the responsibility of critical thinking on the part of the administration.
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Oh wait...
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Just like they do around airports and paper mills.
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