Internet censorship bills in congress?

[Xerxes]

So I check out 4chan today and see this on every board

STOP INTERNET CENSORSHIP—TWO BILLS IN CONGRESS UNDERMINE THE PRINCIPLES OF THE WEB

American Censorship Day: November 16, 2011
On November 16th, the "Stop Online Piracy Act" will be heard in Congress. This legislation, in addition to the Senate's "Protect IP Act," completely undermine and fundamentally change the core principles of the Web. They have the potential to radically alter or shut down sites like YouTube, Flickr, 4chan, others, and all new companies that follow.
See americancensorship.org for more and help us stop these bills from becoming law.

What is happening here? Have you guys heard anything on the news? This should be a big deal, no?

[Shockwave]

Ive been saying, the gov is starting its big push to reign in control.
Its BS, but they fly under the radar and people seem content to hand their rights over with a smile. 

Website Blocking
The government can order service providers to block websites for infringing links posted by any users.
Risk of Jail for Ordinary Users
It becomes a felony with a potential 5 year sentence to stream a copyrighted work that would cost more than $2,500 to license, even if you are a totally noncommercial user, e.g. singing a pop song on Facebook.
Chaos for the Internet
Thousands of sites that are legal under the DMCA would face new legal threats. People trying to keep the internet more secure wouldn't be able to rely on the integrity of the DNS system.

[vinnydountsnyc]

HITLER RISING ! 

[Wiggs]

It's happening you fucking idiots.  They're trying to control the flow of information...I hope you ignorant fucks here in America pull your thumbs out of your ass and wake up...

[240 is Back]

It's happening you fucking idiots.  They're trying to control the flow of information...I hope you ignorant fucks here in America pull your thumbs out of your ass and wake up...

[Nails]

I can't even get 4chan to load for me anymore.

Getbig would be top 10 sites to be shut down by BIG BROTHA OBAMA, thanks Coach

[mass243]

All happening as I have said.

What could these things indicate?

- Major demonstrations across the country.
- Police tries brutally to stop these demonstrations.
- People kept in prisons without trials.
- Massive following of own citizens still building up
- Restrictions of human rights
- Growing use of force against citizens from police etc.
- Efforts to take guns away from citizens
- Restriction of freedom of speech
- Desperate actions to make people stand in one front (by creating common "threats" out of nowhere but miserably failing)

etc, etc.

It's clear that country is rapidly falling in pieces behind the scenes! Could it be more clear? Don't think so.

We, current generations, are the last people to know USA as it is today. This ain't ending strong. Country will dissolve and end up as at least 3 independent smaller countries.
Question is, whether it will happen peacefully or will blood flow on streets.

[Wiggs]

All happening as I have said.

What could these things indicate?

- Major demonstrations across the country.
- Police tries brutally to stop these demonstrations.
- People kept in prisons without trials.
- Massive following of own citizens still building up
- Restrictions of human rights
- Growing use of force against citizens from police etc.
- Efforts to take guns away from citizens
- Restriction of freedom of speech
- Desperate actions to make people stand in one front (by creating common "threats" out of nowhere)

etc, etc.

It's clear that country is rapidly falling in pieces behind the scenes! Could it be more clear? Don't think so.

We, current generations, are the last people to know USA as it is today. This ain't ending strong. Country will dissolve and end up as at least 3 independent smaller countries.

What a fucked up situation.  I'm buying another gun this week...and then 1 per month till this shit goes down.

[Shockwave]

It's happening you fucking idiots.  They're trying to control the flow of information...I hope you ignorant fucks here in America pull your thumbs out of your ass and wake up...

Yup.
Like I said, the fckin citizens are willing to hand their rights over to the government without so much as a peep.

Theyre making their big push, its almost time for us to make our big push back.

[liberty]

The USA will dissolve into three smaller countries ?
 

[Wiggs]

I could give two shits about this being a bodybuilding board. When shit like this happens it should be the lead thread on every board and subboard no matter the topic...Let me help some of my fellow deviants out...

SAY GOODBYE to TUBEGALORE, TUBE8, JIZZHUT, XHAMSTER, YOUPORN, and all your other free porn....How's that? will that get your asses up?

[240 is Back]

porn keeps the masses subdued.

without the nightly release of porn, many people would be dragging women into bushes for rapetime.

porn is a useful and necessary society mgmt tool.

[Shockwave]

I could give two shits about this being a bodybuilding board. When shit like this happens it should be the lead thread on every board and subboard no matter the topic...Let me help some of m fellow deviants out...

SAY GOODBYE to TUBEGALORE, TUBE8, JIZZHUT, XHAMSTER, YOUPORN, and all your other free porn....How's that? will that get your asses up?

Lol.
People just dont seem to give a shit anymore, seems like as long as a lot o them have their cable TV, X box, etc, they just dont care.

Soon as it happens though, everyone is gonna be freaking out, bitching and wondering WTF happened.
Sad state of affairs the citizens are in today.

Sometimes I think Uberman is spot on about everything he says.

Guess the US has reached its peak, like the Romans and the Greeks, we reached that point of being too civilized for our own good, and now begins the fall....

[Xerxes]

This will look like the same systems used by China, Iran and Syria

[mass243]

The USA will dissolve into three smaller countries ?
 

At least.
Trust me, bro. Your small empire ain't eternal.
Bigger and mightier empires have fallen before. Everything indicates we're watching last convulsions of USA.

How long it takes? Nobody knows. But process is rollin'. It's pretty much impossible to stop it.

Absolutely no hate. Just sayin'

[#1 Klaus fan]

First thing for Americans would be to admit you are not immune to censorship. Won't happen though. The public will keep doing the easy thing, criticizing North Korea on the other side of the globe.

[Wiggs]

At least.
Trust me, bro. Your small empire ain't eternal.

Bigger and mightier empires have fallen before. Everything indicates we're watching last convulsions of USA.

How long it takes? Nobody knows. But process is rollin'. It's impossible to stop it.

No hate. Just sayin'

In the grand scheme of things, we had a pretty shitty empire compared to the greats...Not even close to the best.
It is now obvious to me I can no longer operate under moral fabric of old America.

[Bobby]

HITLER RISING ! 

More like the complete opposite.
Communism, Bolshevik Revolution, Soviet union...Replace leaders with your own and destroy the country from the inside.

[Shockwave]

In the grand scheme of things, we had a pretty shitty empire compared to the greats...Not even close to the best.
It is now obvious to me I can no longer operate under moral fabric of old America.

Yup.
... Hopefully Ill be dead before it truely collapses....Hopefully this is just the beginning.
Hopefully.

[240 is Back]

i think we have selective censorship in america.

for example, we're not blocked from websites out there telling the truth.

however, there are so many high-gloss mainstream news shows and sites, selling us an 80% version of the truth, tainting things any way they want, that we don't notice/believe the true stories.  Plus the dis-info... where you'll have people putting out false stories on purpose to make all non-mainstream news outlets seem not credible.

what's HILARIOUS is that far-left viewers are well aware FOX lies all day.
what's HILARIOUS is that far-right viewes know that MSNBC lies all day.

But neither will accept THEIR OWN STATION is selling them bullshit all day

[Wiggs]

Yup.
... Hopefully Ill be dead before it truely collapses....Hopefully this is just the beginning.
Hopefully.

Dude, massive inflation WILL happen within the next couple years.
The dollar will collapse causing chaos worldwide. They know this and are preparing for the inevitable.

So will you be dead within the next couple years? You do know we're broke and we borrow money just to keep this empire running artifically right?

[mass243]

In the grand scheme of things, we had a pretty shitty empire compared to the greats...Not even close to the best.
It is now obvious to me I can no longer operate under moral fabric of old America.

You're right. Roman Empire for example lasted ages but it did finally dissolve and then vanished from the face of mother earth.

I'm basing my three independent countries theory on the following:

- Viable states might want to form their own country. They get pissed off fostering states with most debt and least industry etc.
- The states with most economic, socioeconomic problems will most probably stick together
- Growing population of Mexicans and other minorities in USA might want their own country too

[CalvinH]

I could give two shits about this being a bodybuilding board. When shit like this happens it should be the lead thread on every board and subboard no matter the topic...Let me help some of my fellow deviants out...

SAY GOODBYE to TUBEGALORE, TUBE8, JIZZHUT, XHAMSTER, YOUPORN, and all your other free porn....How's that? will that get your asses up?

Hopefully then people will actually leave their basements and actually go and meet girls....

[Wiggs]

Hopefully then people will actually leave their basements and actually go and meet girls....

No my alcoholic friend by then the government will tell you who you can meet and how many children you're allowed to have.

[240 is Back]

No my alcoholic friend by then the government will tell you who you can meet and how many children you're allowed to have.

they dont have to.

they just prescribe enough prozac that people are too lazy/altered to have sex.

american population has declined in the last 10 years, right?

our leaders are doing it the right way, oddly.  In china, it's "drown the girls".  In Africa or mid east, it's "have 10 kids and hope 5 survive".

In america, we get stoned and educated and only hav 1-2 kids.  morally, its shady, but the results are better, right?