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People like you who finds it very easy to harrass and bully someone they know nothing about for expressing different opinion really need help.

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So let’s take a look at the dangerous provisions in the blacklist bills that would damage free speech, Internet security, and online innovation:

The Anti-Circumvention Provision

In addition to going after websites allegedly directly involved in copyright infringement, a proposal in SOPA will allow the government to target sites that simply provide information that could help users get around the bills’ censorship mechanisms. Such a provision would not only amount to an unconstitutional prior restraint against protected speech, but would severely damage online innovation. And contrary to claims by SOPA’s supporters, this provision—at least what’s been proposed so far—applies to all websites, even those in the U.S.

As First Amendment expert Marvin Ammori points out, “The language is pretty vague, but it appears all these companies must monitor their sites for anti-circumvention so they are not subject to court actions ‘enjoining’ them from continuing to provide ‘such product or service.’” That means social media sites like Facebook or YouTube—basically any site with user generated content—would have to police their own sites, forcing huge liability costs onto countless Internet companies. This is exactly why venture capitalists have said en masse they won’t invest in online startups if PIPA and SOPA pass. Websites would be forced to block anything from a user post about browser add-ons like DeSopa, to a simple list of IP addresses of already-blocked sites.

Perhaps worse, EFF has detailed how this provision would also decimate the open source software community. Anyone who writes or distributes Virtual Private Network, proxy, privacy or anonymization software would be negatively affected. This includes organizations that are funded by the State Department to create circumvention software to help democratic activists get around authoritarian regimes’ online censorship mechanisms. Ironically, SOPA would not only institute the same practices as these regimes, but would essentially outlaw the tools used by activists to circumvent censorship in countries like Iran and China as well.

The “Vigilante” Provision

Another dangerous provision in PIPA and SOPA that hasn’t received a lot of attention is the “vigilante” provision, which would grant broad immunity to all service providers if they overblock innocent users or block sites voluntarily with no judicial oversight at all. The standard for immunity is incredibly low and the potential for abuse is off the charts. Intermediaries only need to act “in good faith” and base their decision “on credible evidence” to receive immunity.

As we noted months ago, this provision would allow the MPAA and RIAA to create literal blacklists of sites they want censored. Intermediaries will find themselves under pressure to act to avoid court orders, creating a vehicle for corporations to censor sites—even those in the U.S.—without any legal oversight. And as Public Knowledge has pointed out, not only can this provision be used for bogus copyright claims that are protected by fair use, but large corporations can take advantage of it to stamp out emerging competitors and skirt anti-trust laws:

    For instance, an Internet service provider could block DNS requests for a website offering online video that competed with its cable television offerings, based upon “credible evidence” that the site was, in its own estimation, promoting its use for infringement, While the amendment requires that the action be taken in good faith, the blocked site now bears the burden of proving either its innocence or the bad faith of its accuser in order to be unblocked.

Corporate Right of Action

PIPA and SOPA also still allow copyright holders to get an unopposed court order to cut off foreign websites from payment processors and advertisers. As we have continually highlighted, copyright holders already can remove infringing material from the web under the DMCA notice-and-takedown procedure. Unfortunately, we’ve seen that power abused time and again. Yet the proponents of PIPA and SOPA want to give rightsholders even more power, allowing them to essentially shut down full sites instead of removing the specific infringing content.

While this provision only affects foreign sites, it still affects Americans' free speech rights. As Marvin Ammori explained, "The seminal case of Lamont v. Postmaster makes it clear that Americans have the First Amendment right to read and listen to foreign speech, even if the foreigners lack a First Amendment speech right." If history is any guide—and we’re afraid it is—we will see specious claims to wholesale take downs of legitimate and protected speech.

Expanded Attorney General Powers

PIPA and SOPA would also give the Attorney General new authority to block domain name services, a provision that has been universally criticized by both Internet security experts and First Amendment scholars. Even the blacklist bills’ authors are now publicly second-guessing that scary provision. But even without it, this section would still force many intermediaries to become the Internet police by putting the responsibility of censorship enforcement on those intermediaries, who are usually innocent third parties.

The Attorney General would also be empowered to de-list websites from search engines, which, as Google Chairman Eric Schmidt noted, would still "criminalize linking and the fundamental structure of the Internet itself."  The same applies to payment processors and advertisers.

These are just some of the egregious provisions in PIPA and SOPA that would drastically change the way we use the Internet (for the worse), and punish millions of innocent users who have never even thought about copyright infringement

paniki:
I agree with this law. The world is shifting into a knowledge economy and the owners knowledge need to have their knowledge protected by patents and copyright. Therefore this SOPA law is needed not only in America but the entire world so that patent and copyright infringement can be tackled.

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You can only agree with SOPA/PIPA when you don't understand what it really stands for. Now, let me put it in a way you'd understand.

If SOPA is in place, this nairaland will find it difficult to exist because Seun will have to check every comment made on nairaland and approve them
one by one. If the comment talks about d'banj, p-square, even you and me, Seun will have to get approval from us one by one before he could publish them.

Failure to do that, anyone of us could bring Nairaland down!

Or if your friend upload your picture on facebook and you don't like it, you could close facebook down!!

As Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian explained, PIPA and SOPA are “the equivalent of being angry and trying to take action against Ford just because a Mustang was used in a bank robbery.”

That means, internet will simply seize to exist.

White House has already issue a statement against it. What we're working on now is to make sure such crazy bill is not mentioned again in future by and group of crazy lawmakers anywhere in the world.

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A crime was committed against this fella which in this case " the forgotten person" and all we could say is "why was he claiming to be a bad guy?". Where was his freedom of speech and expression, his right to liberty and security of person, his right to privacy, and his right to be enjoyed without interference?

Doesn't that alone depict the mental state of most of us in Nija and yet we murder and crucify the govt for corruption? We as a people need to re-orientate ourselves and do away with these uncultured, uncivilized comments we give to victims of crime. Does the fact that a lady dressed in a certain way warrant her getting violated? Does fact that I left my laptop at the back seat of my car constitute it being stolen? Yes you might say I'm silly for leaving my laptop at the back seat of my car, but was it not my laptop?

What do we then do with the perpetrators? It seems to me that victims often suffer the most. I fear for Nigeria, I fear for you lagosians.

My brother, each time i ready comment by Nigerians on issues like this, i can not but see how wicket Nigerian people have become. Alway looking for the down fall of another man in other to rejoice over it. And that is the reason why a good number of the will live and die poor.

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