End of Free Internet: US Senate Committee Approves Internet "Blacklist" Bill

It seems the lame duck Congressional session is becoming anything but unproductive. Yesterday, we saw the cloture of the Food Safety Modernization Act (S. 510), and today the Combating Online Infringement and Counterfeits Act was unanimously approved by the US Senate Judiciary Committee Thursday with a 19-0 vote. The COICA has been overwhelmingly viewed as a corporate hijacking of the internet by mega-media cartels. Indeed, it is the end of the free internet as we now it.

The Associated Press reported on the COICA vote:

The Combating Online Infringement and Counterfeits Act, which has the support of the entertainment industry but has been strongly criticized by digital rights and other groups, was approved by a vote of 19-0.
"Few things are more important to the future of the American economy and job creation than protecting our intellectual property," said Senator Patrick Leahy, a Democrat from Vermont who co-sponsored the bill.


"That is why the legislation is supported by both labor and industry, and Democrats and Republicans are standing together," Leahy said.
The bill gives the Justice Department an expedited process for cracking down on websites engaged in piracy or the sale of counterfeit goods including having courts issue shutdown orders against domains based outside the United States.
"Rogue websites are essentially digital stores selling illegal and sometimes dangerous products," Leahy said. "If they existed in the physical world, the store would be shuttered immediately and the proprietors would be arrested."
"We cannot excuse the behavior because it happens online and the owners operate overseas," he said. "The Internet needs to be free -- not lawless."
This legislation may be the most dangerous weapon against free speech in modern history. The infringing activity that may land a website on the "Blacklist" is defined very broadly. It appears that the blacklist can be enforced without a court order via ISPs. This is total information tyranny and all independent voices need to stand up and protest or surely we'll face the arbitrary blacklist. David Segal reported on the blacklist regulations:
COICA creates two blacklists of Internet domain names. Courts could add sites to the first list; the Attorney General would have control over the second. Internet service providers and others (everyone from Comcast to PayPal to Google AdSense) would be required to block any domains on the first list. They would also receive immunity (and presumably the good favor of the government) if they block domains on the second list.
The lists are for sites "dedicated to infringing activity," but that's defined very broadly -- any domain name where counterfeit goods or copyrighted material are "central to the activity of the Internet site" could be blocked


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Comment by WTRH-AM-AE on November 29, 2010 at 12:46am
Listen Up! Call your Internet Service Provider up and demand more freedom online or lose business! I am about call up my ISP and file a complaint, and I want everyone to do the same too. We are paying for internet access. I can see if we were not paying for it, then I would understand. I am paying $59.99 for internet access and if this keeps on happenning, I will get something else to access the web or get my money back.
Comment by WTRH-AM-AE on November 29, 2010 at 12:18am
Welcome to the New World Order Network!
Comment by WTRH-AM-AE on November 29, 2010 at 12:15am
Great! God darn it! It passed and 76 damn sites are down! Stupid Romper Rooms!!
Comment by WTRH-AM-AE on November 24, 2010 at 3:33pm
If we don't need WiFi router licensing then this bill is corrupted and needs not to pass!!!
Comment by WTRH-AM-AE on November 24, 2010 at 3:32pm
Comment by WTRH-AM-AE on November 24, 2010 at 3:29pm
You're tuned to WTRH-NET where the truth will set you free. Now back to our regularly scheduled programming already in progress. Like I said, The FCC regulates radio and TV not the net. The internet is not like the Electromagnetic Spectrum nor does it need a RF frequency allocation chart. So what will we need now a radio license for our WiFI routers?
Comment by fireguy on November 20, 2010 at 11:42pm
Lame ducks running rampant till January we have not seen anything yet.

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