† cloud1414 Posted April 8, 2011 Report Share Posted April 8, 2011 There are renewed efforts by senator Leahy to reintroduce the COICA bill this year, which will allow to censor on demand any website the entertainment industry of the United States dislike. Practices like this are common in countries like Iran or China, the difference here is that the site they choose to target will be censored in the whole world.Please take the time to visit DemandProgress to learn more about it and to contact your senator to raise your concerns.DemandProgress on COICAhttp://act.demandprogress.org/sign/petition_blacklist/?source=frontDemandProgress on domain seizureshttp://act.demandprogress.org/sign/dhscomplaint/?source=front Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BushidoSkeleton Posted April 8, 2011 Report Share Posted April 8, 2011 Living safely in Australia Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Koby Posted April 8, 2011 Report Share Posted April 8, 2011 Living safely in Australia You fail to understand this.This effects you too as it will effectively give the USA control to shutdown ANY site located ANYWHERE in the WORLD. Including KAMETSU if it passes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nero D. Ace Posted April 8, 2011 Report Share Posted April 8, 2011 oh for the love of ...this thing is BACK? is there any particular reason why we should worry about it? it failed to take effect last time so are there any new players who can change it's fate this time? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Renzourin Posted April 8, 2011 Report Share Posted April 8, 2011 i doubt it iki its not likely to pass they cant make it they know the effect it will have and most wont go for it especially when the un and other countries look down at us they wont risk losing public opinion like that Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zZJoennZz Posted April 9, 2011 Report Share Posted April 9, 2011 oh! this is bad! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Leviathan87 Posted April 9, 2011 Report Share Posted April 9, 2011 thats the us for ya........... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Asch Posted April 9, 2011 Report Share Posted April 9, 2011 How is this even possible, they do not control the servers situated out side USA, its more or less bullying[Oh crap, what we have here again], I doubt it, its not viable in theory too, they can censor sites located within US, but not in the world. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Renzourin Posted April 9, 2011 Report Share Posted April 9, 2011 yeah they can by forcing all traffic incoming to the united states to go through a filter if your not allowed poof your blocked just like an ip ban Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nero D. Ace Posted April 9, 2011 Report Share Posted April 9, 2011 yeah they can by forcing all traffic incoming to the united states to go through a filter if your not allowed poof your blocked just like an ip banso, they're basically gonna surround the U.S. internet by a wall?goodbye freedom and privacy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Renzourin Posted April 9, 2011 Report Share Posted April 9, 2011 basically yeah thats what theyll try to do but they'll fail especially whne the people of th world use it to their advantage and hack sites ot get everything blacklisted forcing them to remove it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zZJoennZz Posted April 10, 2011 Report Share Posted April 10, 2011 Why! Why is this happening! >:[ that's so bad, I don't like that idea of. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
† Irish Posted April 10, 2011 Report Share Posted April 10, 2011 its for "National Security" at least that's what they say... Their whole argument is E-terrorism, and stupid shit like that. And what would happen is, they would take control of all IP Providers and censor and block sites they deemed a threat to the USA and have them shut down, either through negotiations or by threats. All sites that host anime, torrents, and stuff like this will be targets of the "Counter-Attack" and will be shut down until they pass certain requirements... They could even shutdown regular forum just because of one persons post... It's all stupid, but that is what happens when a senator or congress man downloads bad porn and gets a virus... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bardon Posted April 10, 2011 Report Share Posted April 10, 2011 Its still a fail idea made by a certain jackass! >.>I highly doubt it would have any chance of happening, its basically no different than last time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
† cloud1414 Posted April 14, 2011 Author Report Share Posted April 14, 2011 Well since people Stream Anime on youtube, they could take down youtube also if they really wanted to. Since streaming downloaded anime is illegal to begin with unless you have the rights to like official youtube channels. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chupathingy220 Posted April 14, 2011 Report Share Posted April 14, 2011 I feel like the US would not be able to control EVERY SITE all over the world. That would be contested by almost every other country. What the proposal could do is allow the US to restrict internet access in and out of the country, so people in Australia, like you Zen, could be blocked from Kametsu. Or the government could just shutdown Kametsu if it wanted. Sites registered to countries other than the US wouldn't be direct affected. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
† Anras Rune Posted April 14, 2011 Report Share Posted April 14, 2011 i dont think it is possible to shut down every site in the world...think of all the private servers that people own and such.also if they have problems taking down sites like wikileaks and demonoid imagine hundreds of thousands of sites at a time...i dont really think this will come into play, but just in case...*readies the sniper rifle, calls Anonymous* Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Koby Posted April 14, 2011 Report Share Posted April 14, 2011 i dont think it is possible to shut down every site in the world...think of all the private servers that people own and such.also if they have problems taking down sites like wikileaks and demonoid imagine hundreds of thousands of sites at a time...i dont really think this will come into play, but just in case...*readies the sniper rifle, calls Anonymous*They had no problem shutting down those sites. In fact they shut them down rather quickly. It's just there is a lot of people willing to support the cause and help host those sites on thousands of hosts across the world. Wikileaks has been taken down several times, but somebody else always pops up to host it. For a while it was only accessible via a series of IP Addresses. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NickthePwn3r Posted April 14, 2011 Report Share Posted April 14, 2011 I say this, it won't pass. Unless it gets reduced in power, though i must say everyone does want to be our butt buddies. Sides congress is bunch of old farts lately. I severly doubt this will pass for other reasons as well, plus people can just bounce there address off every where to protect their site. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sirking101 Posted April 17, 2011 Report Share Posted April 17, 2011 i agree with NickthePwn3r it will not happen Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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