Wow, an advocate of the police state. We have so many laws that anyone could be locked up given a vindictive or self righteous enough law enforcement officer, including yourself.
The reason that crime is down is largely due to unemployment benefits being extended. The social safety net caught those laid off, so they don't have to resort to crime. If the social safety net had caught many of those in prison, we wouldn't have to deprive them of their basic rights.
"It makes sense to fill our jails to capacity with as many criminals as possible. Then if we run out of room, we can always let certain ones out on parole."
We should start with people like you, or only lock up the worst of the worst to begin with.
I don't care what happens to rojadirecta really. The way the justice department treated them in denying due process is troubling however.
I care that the non circumvention provision won't work and seems to outlaw protocols that make the internet work. I especially care that some in our legislature want to pass another broad new power (anti circumvention) that could be selectively applied to practically anyone who has ever used the internet.
The tactic of outlawing everyone and then applying the law selectively is an anathema to liberty.
That paper is so full of muddled logic, factual inaccuracies, wrong assumptions, logical fallacies, presenting opinion as fact, and probable outright lies (as opposed to just being wrong due to ignorance) that I literally don't even know where to start talking about it.
You think that it will stop at a few "rouge" websites? I see no evidence of that.
I do see evidence of the government gaining new powers through scare words like "terrorism" or "rouge sites" and then abusing their new powers by using them to go after ordinary citizens.
What recourse do the wrongly accused have against those whom do abuse the bill? All I see is a section granting immunity to those who may be accomplices to any first amendment violations.
Casual copyright infringement is worse than medicine that doesn't work? You have some really fucked up values.
Anyway, the issue with the legislation is that it's a job killer, it gives broad censorship powers to private corporations, and if its circumvention measures are implemented it will weaken our national infrastructure, leave us more open to personal, corporate, and governmental security breaches.
CNN did a couple things too. The first story I saw was basically a hit job that implied "everyone on the internet is a dirty pirate and they deserve SOPA." They've had a couple of small stories since then, but it largely ignores the real issues. It has been pretty disappointing.
1. DPI can be circumvented via HTTPS. There's a good reason for that. Financial services and those who deal with state/trade secrets, like military contractors, don't want random people listening in. I don't want random people listening to my conversations either.
2. Proxies allow traffic to be redirected through an intermediary. There are numerous uses for them, both legitimate and otherwise.
3. TOR was created to foster free speech in repressive regimes. All data is encrypted and randomly distributed over its network. It was originally designed by the US government to reach out to dissidents in repressive regimes. If it allows free speech there, it will allow free speech here.
4. SSH allows for administration of web servers and internet infrastructure, among other things. It is an encrypted protocol like HTTPS. Encrypted data prevents inspection by ISPs. If these data streams were not encrypted, any random hacker who managed to be in the right place on the network could take over the internet backbones, webpages, or practically anything else on the internet.
5. VNC and RDP allow you to see a webpage generated on another server. It is mostly used to ensure that only authorized people are able to use non public resources. It would also allow circumvention of any ISP blocking.
6. Every corporate, governmental, and many private networks use VPNs for privacy and network management. If they allow for privacy and network management, they allow for circumvention.
7. If you can redirect traffic to contain a malware outbreak on your home, work, or governmental network, you can redirect traffic to allow for circumvention.
8. DNSSEC prevents DNS hijacking by someone pretending to be your bank or employer. It would also prevent any government directed DNS hijacking, like SOPA mandates.
If it is made law and isn't quickly declared unconstitutional, there will be a massive public backlash.
If you know nothing about the internet, what makes you think you know how to effectively manage it?
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The reason that crime is down is largely due to unemployment benefits being extended. The social safety net caught those laid off, so they don't have to resort to crime. If the social safety net had caught many of those in prison, we wouldn't have to deprive them of their basic rights.
"It makes sense to fill our jails to capacity with as many criminals as possible. Then if we run out of room, we can always let certain ones out on parole."
We should start with people like you, or only lock up the worst of the worst to begin with.
I found these two videos very educational.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6wXkI4t7nuc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eDJrQBwJp qk
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I care that the non circumvention provision won't work and seems to outlaw protocols that make the internet work. I especially care that some in our legislature want to pass another broad new power (anti circumvention) that could be selectively applied to practically anyone who has ever used the internet.
The tactic of outlawing everyone and then applying the law selectively is an anathema to liberty.
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Did you have a seventh grader write that for you?
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I do see evidence of the government gaining new powers through scare words like "terrorism" or "rouge sites" and then abusing their new powers by using them to go after ordinary citizens.
What recourse do the wrongly accused have against those whom do abuse the bill? All I see is a section granting immunity to those who may be accomplices to any first amendment violations.
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It doesn't help that there are some on here that seem to legitimately try to make that argument.
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Anyway, the issue with the legislation is that it's a job killer, it gives broad censorship powers to private corporations, and if its circumvention measures are implemented it will weaken our national infrastructure, leave us more open to personal, corporate, and governmental security breaches.
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Sensible DRM
The net effect will be that those that don't want to or can't pay will have to wait longer as it is eventually cracked, and that is perfectly fair.
Kudos to these companies.
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Change will come either way.
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When is the final vote scheduled?
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1. DPI can be circumvented via HTTPS. There's a good reason for that. Financial services and those who deal with state/trade secrets, like military contractors, don't want random people listening in. I don't want random people listening to my conversations either.
2. Proxies allow traffic to be redirected through an intermediary. There are numerous uses for them, both legitimate and otherwise.
3. TOR was created to foster free speech in repressive regimes. All data is encrypted and randomly distributed over its network. It was originally designed by the US government to reach out to dissidents in repressive regimes. If it allows free speech there, it will allow free speech here.
4. SSH allows for administration of web servers and internet infrastructure, among other things. It is an encrypted protocol like HTTPS. Encrypted data prevents inspection by ISPs. If these data streams were not encrypted, any random hacker who managed to be in the right place on the network could take over the internet backbones, webpages, or practically anything else on the internet.
5. VNC and RDP allow you to see a webpage generated on another server. It is mostly used to ensure that only authorized people are able to use non public resources. It would also allow circumvention of any ISP blocking.
6. Every corporate, governmental, and many private networks use VPNs for privacy and network management. If they allow for privacy and network management, they allow for circumvention.
7. If you can redirect traffic to contain a malware outbreak on your home, work, or governmental network, you can redirect traffic to allow for circumvention.
8. DNSSEC prevents DNS hijacking by someone pretending to be your bank or employer. It would also prevent any government directed DNS hijacking, like SOPA mandates.
If it is made law and isn't quickly declared unconstitutional, there will be a massive public backlash.
If you know nothing about the internet, what makes you think you know how to effectively manage it?
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Idiot or troll?
It's hard to tell. Either way, troll grade 4/10
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