I blackened out java4k.com. Sad day indeed. I feel like if SOPA/PIPA becomes reality I fear a lot of the 4k games become illegal copyright infringement. This very much affects us as game devs, because a lot of the games are inspired by others.

In France, some major websites protest too. I put this into the background of my blog. Foreign countries are concerned too as SOPA would allow American corporations to block foreign websites too.

Some of them are already illegal, aren't they?

Australia, Finland and The Netherlands (since 2 days...) already have domain blacklists for ISPs.

I think everyone here understands the importance of the internet. It's been relatively free since its inception, and governments not too concerned about it. But in the past decade it has grown in importance, to a point for majority of the people out there the internet is a large part of their daily lives.

So, it's mainstream now, it's what people use daily, ordinary people, not just nerds in their parents basement.

Government tries to control everything, because there always exist individuals in government that think they should dictate and control everything around you.

I'm a big Ron Paul supporter, and I think government should be as miniscule as possible, out of the daily lives of people.

The internet has not grown to the revolutionary thing it is today because of government involvement, it's done so because the government was absent.  But with increased bureaucracy, laws, regulations, etc. the internet will become stunted, and I fear for its future.

America technically "owns" the internet, this is why this law is so important. They can shut down a domain of a foreign site servicing people in another country, just because some fascists laws in America.

But what I fear exactly is a "internet split", partitioning of the internet into regions. Look at China and their great firewall, look at Iran with their "Shalal network" (or whatever), Australia even. Perhaps the EU will create a european based internet free of American influence, but under control of brussel beurocrats (no better).

The regulations and laws in different regions are already setting up the scenario for this to happen, a collision course.

If you wanted to visit a site in a different region you'd have to do some special things, not sure how that would end up, but the internet as we know it will cease to exist.

The internet has been a independent world of its own, but it looks like national governments are trying to crack down on that, imposing their rule over it.

I want to participate but dunno know to do it with my weebly site, which has 3 strayed visitors daily
well, twitter can make it.

The banner is alive? kinda horror. My english is not that good so, what is the diff between SOPA and PIPA?

AIDS ribbon, more clear, sympathy symbol.

It's a ribbon for all kinds of 'bad circumstances', I'd point you to the wikipedia page, but, you know.

If wikipedia is your primary source of information, you have bigger problems.

And what if something like "conservapedia" is your main source of information?  Let's go beat up some people (I'm meta today).

add  ?banner=none  to wikipedia urls.



I have. It's a pile of horse-shit. Not that that is rare with new bills.
It's especially obvious with stuff like the internet when nobody seems to have a clue how things even work on the internet.

As vile, nasty, and corrupt as Stevens was, and as funny and crotchety as that remark sounded ... am I the only one that talks about a network link as a "pipe"?  I mean sure, it may add capacity easier than a sewer or water system, but it is more like tubes than a big truck...

http://youtu.be/EtOoQFa5ug8

Grumble grumble how do I embed youtube videos in this chatty-gizmotron pinup-board thing again?

Yeah Jesse Ventura also said this, that is also impossible to read it all, because its just so much; they bombard the guys with bills - and most of it just gets through.


+9000. Absolutely.
Many people have pointed out anyway, that most of the laws are just there so that there is more work for lawyers and politicians and whatnot. Bureaucracy to the max D=
So I guess almost all laws today are about more bullshit bureaucracy, more surveillance, more governmental control, less freedom or a combination.
Of course written in ambiguous/vague english, so that on the one hand the bill can pass, and later they can abuse its power. Like with SOPA.

Spot on my friend. This is depressing.