Internet Bill of Rights

[8363MTR]

(Sadly, yes. I've gotten it off of this video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ih4Nk...&feature=g-u-u
Anywho...)

Sen. Ron Wyden and Rep. Darrell Issa (the people who stood up against SOPA and PIPA) are now considering to make an Internet Bill of Rights. This is to protect the web users against censorship and those who limited their online freedom. They were at the Personal Democracy Forum 2012 in New York today to address this issue. Some of the quotes on the bill includes:

--Have the right to use the Web ("Freedom")
--Have the right to use the Web without censorship or obstruction ("Open")
--Should be treated equally while using the Web, an obvious nod at Net Neutrality ("Equality")

The two said they don't have a completely formed plan about how the Bill of Rights will look, but they are encouraging Internet users to help supply ideas at Opengovfoundation.org.

For those who can't go towards that site, and to make this a discussion, what are your thoughts about this, and what would you also like to see on the bill if it you wrote it?

[Cirmentia]

No more SOPA laws?
I'm in.

[~▲†▲~]

Sad that this is actually needed. **** corporations and lobbyists trying to regulate the internet.

[8363MTR]

Sad that this is actually needed. **** corporations and lobbyists trying to regulate the internet.

Amen brother. Amen.

[Tank Titanium]

No more SOPA laws?
I'm in.

People make an amazing film, people pirate it online and the creators of the film lose millions of dollars. Such a small price to pay just to prevent the internet from being destroyed by things like SOPA, don't you think?

[ASilva93]

I agree with some censorship, but SOPA was way extreme and merely for copyrights.

[~▲†▲~]

People make an amazing film, people pirate it online and the creators of the film lose millions of dollars. Such a small price to pay just to prevent the internet from being destroyed by things like SOPA, don't you think?

Yes. It is a small price to pay.

[J3NNiF3R]

I read the title and thought
"this should put me to sleep"

[wtf is a Nitromonkey?]

Bout damn time.

[ProClifo]

People make an amazing film, people pirate it online and the creators of the film lose millions of dollars. Such a small price to pay just to prevent the internet from being destroyed by things like SOPA, don't you think?

They're gonna earn money no matter what. People will always pay to watch movies in theaters or on DVD. It's only the small minority that download pirated movies on the web.

[Glow In The Dark]

People make an amazing film, people pirate it online and the creators of the film lose millions of dollars. Such a small price to pay just to prevent the internet from being destroyed by things like SOPA, don't you think?

Yeah... I'm fairly sure you can't download an entire cinema.

[Red Hackdaw]

Pretty sad that we have to resort to creating a Internet Bill of Rights ;-;

[Agravaine]

Yes. It is a small price to pay.

They're gonna earn money no matter what. People will always pay to watch movies in theaters or on DVD. It's only the small minority that download pirated movies on the web.

Yeah... I'm fairly sure you can't download an entire cinema.

You three clearly don't know the extant of piracy.

[AreUTalking2Meh]

This isn't going to happen until all the old ****s in the US government are replaced by younger people.

[VforVendetta]

Sounds like it could be useful.

Let's just hope that it doesn't lead people to think that they won't get banned for swearing in PR2 because of
"FREEDOM OF SPEECH YO!" (even though some already do hahah)

[~▲†▲~]

You three clearly don't know the extant of piracy.

As long as the earnings are still greater than the budget, I don't see any reason to fret over film teams losing sales.

[Rammjet]

I agree with some censorship, but SOPA was way extreme and merely for copyrights.

Censorship, even for desireable reasons, has again and again been shown to unfairly treat innocents badly.
For example in the UK our mobile phones are censored to prevent children from finding unsavoury content on their iphone, but the censorship was blocking far more than that, including websites of political natures.

[~▲†▲~]

Censorship, even for desireable reasons, has again and again been shown to unfairly treat innocents badly.
For example in the UK our mobile phones are censored to prevent children from finding unsavoury content on their iphone, but the censorship was blocking far more than that, including websites of political natures.

[VforVendetta]

As long as the earnings are still greater than the budget, I don't see any reason to fret over film teams losing sales.

But... but... you're right.

[Rammjet]

It's pointless anyway because teenagers who want to look at porn on a phone still have thousands of sites which evade the censor, or can evade the censor themselves.

The actual people who are censored by this seems to be older people who don't know how to break filters, and who would be more likely to try to look at politically motivates sites that were 'accidentally' censored.