Obama administration eyes executive action to combat online piracy - Raw Story
Submitted by Founding Fathers on Mon, 07/02/2012 - 12:23By Stephen C. Webster
Wednesday, June 27, 2012 14:56 EDT
The Obama administration is soliciting recommendations for internal policy changes, or possibly even an executive order, that would be aimed at combating online piracy in the U.S. and abroad, Raw Story has learned.
After the failure of the Protect IP Act (PIPA) and the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) earlier this year, congressional efforts to reform intellectual property laws have remained largely stalled. However, the administration still holds some power in this realm. A little-noticed solicitation for public comment published Tuesday in the federal register (PDF, see pages 99-101) seems to indicate that, like recent changes to immigration enforcement priorities, President Barack Obama may just go it alone on increasing IP enforcement measures.
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Hail Pharoah
So let it be written, so let it be done! Executive action, my ass. What a thug.
Agast
Incomprehensible what this guy is going to do as a lame duck. I hope it is over soon. Only Dr. Paul can clean up this mess.
The article says they want recommendations
YES I have one!
The Government should keep their grubby fat fingers OFF the internet! They have never gotten into anything without screwing it up and causing un-needed expenses!
What?
Will his imposition against the Internet crowd change their support? Not if Romney is the Republican nominee!
And suddenly...
Everyone will discover Tor and Freenet, backpack-sized wifi mesh network nodes, etc. They will never learn that this is a losing battle.
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At this rate, I have to
At this rate, I have to wonder how long it is before they start outlawing things like Tor.
even the military uses Tor
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Exactly.
I've been saying the same for years.. I remember when IRC #mp3 channels were emerging. The internet always stays 50 steps ahead of the politicians.. p2p, i2p, TOR, Freenet, VNC.
Cloud computing, in my opinion, is going to completely revolutionise this fight once again.
Nobody is fooled. They should try honesty and just come out and say it:
"We want control of the Internet so we can tax it."
They want power over the
They want power over the internet so they can control it and make it say what they want it to say. They want to be able to spy on the people. The Republicans want to tax it to pay their rich friends and the Democrats want to tax it to spend it on more entitlements for their impoverished constituents. Both parties believe in giveaways, they just differ on who to give those giveaways to. When the president acts like a king he will do anything to retain his power.
its more than that...
50 percent is tax-revenue/corporatist-protectionism motives. The rest is information warrr. Internet the last quasi-free place on earth... for now
They also want to control the conversation
I'm sure they love the idea of taxing the internet but I think it's very important to them to control the conversation online. DailyPaul would be shut down or highly censored. There's that famous line about how people would revolt tomorrow if they understood how the banking system works. Well with the power of the internet, people can actually learn it.
deep web
but the Internet is like an Island of freedom. If they regulate the mainstream web, I think going deep web would hurt our chances of ever establishing Liberty. They want to push us into the Underground so we can never inform anyone.
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