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Rebecca MacKinnon, New America Foundation, has an absolutely fantastic opinion piece in The New York Times today, explaining why soup / protect intellectual property are the Great Firewall of America, and why exact wrong approach. He noted that the project is not only the "main features" of the Great Wall of China to the United States, but also to strengthen the capacity of China to censor. Even if it finds that the intentions

are not the same, the "practical effects" would be:

abuse under current U.S. law as indicators of concern for the types of abuses by private actors that the bill would allow the House. Take, for example, cease and desist letters Diebold, maker of voting machines, sent in 2003, requiring ISPs to shut down websites that publish internal company e-mails about problems with voting machines in the company. The letter cited violations of copyright, and most service providers are made to the content, no doubt, despite the strong argument to make the material was protected speech under the First Amendment.



The House bill also emulate the Chinese system of corporate "self-discipline," that companies are responsible for the actions of users. The burden would be the Web site operator to verify that the site was used for copyright infringement. The effect of user-generated sites like YouTube would be crippling.



I'd say it's even worse than that. We have seen how countries like Russia have abused copyright to suppress speech. Do we really want to justify this kind of activity? If property protection SOPA / intellectual is in place, no government around the world can set up something similar, to justify blocking access to almost any website through the abuse of the right of author to find some form of "contravention".
During the hearings today, the MPAA, Michael O'Leary suggests incredibly repressive regimes that censor the Internet is a model worthy of emulation in United States because he did not "break the Internet." Maybe I should talk to those who have had their words stuck in countries like China and Iran to see how they feel about it. And it's very convenient to have the same system here in the U.S.? Are you confident that you will not be abused, despite the long history of abuses we've seen by members of the MPAA? Last week, we've only heard a story about how the MPAA member of Warner Bros., took a large amount of content that was not allowed to do so, including open source software did not like .
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