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n4zty

n4zty

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Hey guys im posting this here beacause alot of you guys are unaware of whats going on with our goverment, seems they want to pass a law to censor our internet and decide what can be share and what cannot. i really cant urge all of you guys enough but if you really want to know whats the big deal, imagine us having our internet censored like in iran or china or korea, imagine the androidforum being blacklisted from the net beacause all of the info being posted about rooting and roms and modifying technology that we paid with our own money with. seems unfair? well if ya could sign a onling petition to help stop this bill from being passed we can beat this from happening only takes a few sec.

Stop Censorship — Take Action Before Senate Vote | Demand Progress

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kR_9AljUCBo

Big companies like google,wikipedia,reddit are gonna shut down tomorrow to make a point against sopa and pipa. Please take a sec to fill in your name email and zip and thats all they ask for.

another good site to check out to help the cause!

http://stopthewall.us/
 
n4zty said:
Hey guys im posting this here beacause alot of you guys are unaware of whats going on with our goverment, seems they want to pass a law to censor our internet and decide what can be share and what cannot. i really cant urge all of you guys enough but if you really want to know whats the big deal, imagine us having our internet censored like in iran or china or korea, imagine the androidforum being blacklisted from the net beacause all of the info being posted about rooting and roms and modifying technology that we paid with our own money with. seems unfair? well if ya could sign a onling petition to help stop this bill from being passed we can beat this from happening only takes a few sec.

Stop Censorship — Take Action Before Senate Vote | Demand Progress

Wyden Call To Arms -- Ask Him To Read Your Name During Filibuster Of SOPA/PIPA Censorship Bills - YouTube


Big companies like google,wikipedia,reddit are gonna shut down tomorrow to make a point against sopa and pipa. Please take a sec to fill in your name email and zip and thats all they ask for.
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i been passing the word around on my fb..and to ppl on the street..its crazy how many ppl didnt know about this..I to was one of them till oneday i was on craigslist and saw it..I just can't believe we are so close of losing our voice..this is not what USA stand for..if it does pass...its going be bad,very bad for us Americans..and honestly everyone around the world.."not just this bill passing,but its there will be more after this" USA will not be the land of the free..
 
O. o I didnt know about this until I read this. Man, these people are NOT even taking the initiative to consult the public about. How fair that huh ?
 
Jeyd02 said:
O. o I didnt know about this until I read this. Man, these people are NOT even taking the initiative to consult the public about. How fair that huh ?
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I have been following this for a few months. A really messed up part of the bill is that lets say someone posts a pirated apk on AF for example, then the can fine AF for that, but it actually gets alot worse then that, it would give the government the right to shut down sites they don't like (kinda like china does). There goes our first amendment right!


EDIT: vote in congress is most likely going to be next week, Obama threatened a Veto so that is great news.
 
Jeyd02 said:
O. o I didnt know about this until I read this. Man, these people are NOT even taking the initiative to consult the public about. How fair that huh ?
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:eek: How did you not know about this? I guess I just go on the internet too much, that I have seen this brought up many times :D
There are many places that you can sign against this like the OP said. XDA blacked out their site as well. XDA-Developers
I urge everyone to sign if you care about your freedom.
 
demarsjcd said:
:eek: How did you not know about this? I guess I just go on the internet too much, that I have seen this brought up many times :D
There are many places that you can sign against this like the OP said. XDA blacked out their site as well. XDA-Developers
I urge everyone to sign if you care about your freedom.
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You can also sign by going to Google.com and clickingnon the blacked out Google pic
 
Prime85 said:
You can also sign by going to Google.com and clickingnon the blacked out Google pic
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:) Unfortunetly I was still awake when they changed their site to the black out. That was the first one that i signed :P

EDIT: Holy cow! They just had about 10,000 people sign XDA with in 15 minutes ! Thats amazing
 
I am not trying to kick the hornets nest hear, I don't want the government to control the internet. But what about pirating? what about individuals who want to protect their intellectual property? How do you enforce that?

When you own a patent or copy write or registered trade mark all that does is give the the write to defend intellectual property in court, but if you don't have $100,000 or more how do you defended property?

Don't read me the wrong way, I don't want the government to some how magically defend intellectual property, I am thinking more of some alternative system. How might it work?
 
That's a loaded question if I ever heard one. lol
Intentional or not, kicking a hornets nest is exactly what that discussion would do.

Don't get me wrong - I mean no disrespect... it's just that I've seen this topic brought up on other forums countless times, and it always ended up with people arguing - to many people, it involves morals and values, and not everyone agrees with one another on things like that.
 
Anniedroid said:
That's a loaded question if I ever heard one. lol
Intentional or not, kicking a hornets nest is exactly what that discussion would do.

Don't get me wrong - I mean no disrespect... it's just that I've seen this topic brought up on other forums countless times, and it always ended up with people arguing - to many people, it involves morals and values, and not everyone agrees with one another on things like that.
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What you have to analyze its their "true" intention over this!!
 
poluka2000 said:
I am not trying to kick the hornets nest hear, I don't want the government to control the internet. But what about pirating? what about individuals who want to protect their intellectual property? How do you enforce that?

When you own a patent or copy write or registered trade mark all that does is give the the write to defend intellectual property in court, but if you don't have $100,000 or more how do you defended property?
Not follow our
Don't read me the wrong way, I don't want the government to some how magically defend intellectual property, I am thinking more of some alternative system. How might it work?
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Pirating really won't stop till countries like Sweden decide to make it illegal for their citizens to not follow our copyright laws. Any one would be able to download that pirated music/movies through DNS. Like mentioned above this has already happened to other countries and it hasn't stopped those people. This is the dummed down version reddit is offline in protest of PIPA and SOPA
 
you have to be specefic about patent, seems what congress is focused on is stoping online pirating to me thats like blowing up a bridge instead of fixing it, kind of like that 1 captain from the cruise ship that abandoned ship. the soulution isnt to destroy what americans invented and worked hard to build for decades.
 
Its not about the pirating. Its about the government getting complete control over the internet. If it was about pirating I wouldn't care but its about preventing the governments control of the internet from being like china or Cuba's
 
Prime85 said:
Its not about the pirating. Its about the government getting complete control over the internet. If it was about pirating I wouldn't care but its about preventing the governments control of the internet from being like china or Cuba's
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I knew that but that's their excuse to why they ate trying to pass this bill. Just like everything that gets passed that effects our "God given rights." Plus since they are claiming this is about illegal distribution of copyrights, why are they spending so much money on this when people that are victims of this are probably really well off.
Why aren't we using this money on the people that actually need it? My family and friends who fought and died in the service for these damn politicians are living pay check to pay check while the our own government thinks that this is more important...
I know that they want to control everything that we do bit I just don't understand how some people can just sit around and watch us lose our freedom.
 
Prime85 said:
Its not about the pirating. Its about the government getting complete control over the internet. If it was about pirating I wouldn't care but its about preventing the governments control of the internet from being like china or Cuba's
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Oh i know its not but im just going along with what they saying like even if that was the real reason that still wouldnt be the solution.

i also like this video this guy explains it clearly for those that still dont understand.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9h2dF-IsH0I
 
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