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American Censorship Day|Fight Back!|
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Wednesday's the big day. The House Judiciary committee will be taking up its version of S. 978 and PROTECT IP -- And we need the whole Internet to fight back.
Leading civil liberties and tech policy organizations are organizing an internet-wide day of protest this Wednesday: We're dubbing it "American Censorship Day" and we'll be protesting this new legislation that would make posting to YouTube a felony and let the US government (and corporations) block Americans' access to websites.
Leading civil liberties and tech policy organizations are organizing an internet-wide day of protest this Wednesday: We're dubbing it "American Censorship Day" and we'll be protesting this new legislation that would make posting to YouTube a felony and let the US government (and corporations) block Americans' access to websites.
What this means:
-The government and corporations can block websites for infringing links posted by any users.
-It becomes a felony with a 5 year sentence to post any copyrighted work that would cost more than $2,500 to license, e.g. singing a pop song on Facebook.
-Thousands of sites that are legal under the DMCA would face new, uncertain liability. People trying to keep the internet more secure wouldn't be able to rely on the integrity of the DNS system.
-It becomes a felony with a 5 year sentence to post any copyrighted work that would cost more than $2,500 to license, e.g. singing a pop song on Facebook.
-Thousands of sites that are legal under the DMCA would face new, uncertain liability. People trying to keep the internet more secure wouldn't be able to rely on the integrity of the DNS system.
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