Ruwrak said:
Catalyst6 said:
Yes. Yes it is.
Here, this video might help explain things better, it's related to the above website's organization I believe.
http://fightforthefuture.org/pipa/
Yeah I seen this before and it comes off to me as propaganda / 'overdoing it' in my point of view. But then agian, alot of things that I see from the USA is 'overdoing it'. Everything is beeing blown out of proportion. As if everything needs to be exciting and life threathening (even if it's just a grocery commercial). I've always amazed myself over this. There is not one talkshow that is 'normal'. It's always the most extreme of the extreme.
Don't get me wrong, it's totally propaganda by definition of the word. However, it does bring up some good points, and some decent hypotheticals. By my count of sites that could be affected: Google, Yahoo, (basically any search engine), YouTube, DeviantArt, Tumblr, Reddit, Imgur, Facebook, Twitter, the list goes on. Even the Escapist could slip up and be threatened if they someone puts something on the forums.
More to the point, it's not the government's job to regulate the internet. It hands over too much power to people who don't know how to control it.
Personally, I don't trust the government. Which is why I think that the biggest problem that could come out of this is the government shutting down websites that don't agree with everything they do simply because they can. They were only posting dissenting opinions, but the gov. took them down because they were pirating. Of course, the site wasn't *actually* breaking any laws, but who's going to stop them?