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  1. In a recent battle in Saskatchewan against No-Fault Insurance(we sort of won, ask your lawyers about the coalition against no-fault) I learned a valuable lesson most people don’t understand legislation but worst of all they don’t want to! They are perfectly willing to let government do whatever they want as long as it doesn’t effect them in a negative manner. Even worse then that when legislation does effect them in a negative manner they won’t say crap if their mouths are full of it! If big government puts their toe in the internet waters you can guarantee that before long they will be bathing in it! So long internet it was nice knowing you…

  2. andre

    LOL this is such a waste of time, everything they do can be very easily bypassed and they would not be able to track you. Sad it has come to this, the internet was born free and will fight back to stay that way.

    This will just turn into a huge money eating monster for the government to maintain that is not even working. Like the gun registry in canada.

  3. Book burning anyone?

    Alex Jones at infowars.com has already had a YouTube video removed for “speaking against the government”. He recently posted an article about this and spoke about it on his radio show last week.

    This is an unconstitutional move to limit free speech and free press. It is in lock-step with other moves from the government, like being groped to get on a plane. Now the Gestapo-like checkpoints are on highways. It doesn’t take a vast majority to fight for freedom and win. There are 312 million Americans. A determined sub-group of these people could raise a hue and cry about this and be effective. If they censor something, groups of people should put that stuff back up, over and over until we make our point that we refuse to be boxed up.

    We should also gather the names of our public employees who voted to censor us. They should be voted out of office asap. Their NAMES should be circulated widely and put onto websites that respond to the search term “should I vote for [name].”

    Lots of articles should be posted, naming the politicians who don’t care a whit about the right to free speech or press, but prefer to do their deeds in darkness.

    Americans are ingenious. We will find away to combat and win against this censorship.

  4. Another shot at nullifying the Constitution. What’s next, state run media?

    • JB

      Ahem, heard of Fox News, CNN, CBC, ABC? Yeah, practically state run. At least, run by the same corporations who own the US government.

  5. Preetis

    excellent, we need such laws all across the world, people who are doing piracy is taking each and every law for granted, but this one shall definitely put some breaks, Piracy is a big issue and have to be handled in this way atleast.

  6. When the totalitarian powers began their takeovers, they first took over the guns and the lines of communication both. They knew that those who owned weapons (registration) were also those with the spirit to speak out and rouse others to protect their nation. These takeovers were always hostile we can now see, and never for the good of the people. Silencing the people and denying them the means of comparing notes and identifying hostile patterns and illegal governance are usually the first to go under color of some ‘necessity’. This diminishes the knowledge and the spirit of the people to resist.

    There is no ‘necessity’ for controlling the Internet, but there is a necessity for keeping it free.

  7. … and while you’re at it, could you knock off the stupid pop-ups?

    Now, THAT would be reform!!!

  8. Piracy is just the excuse used to gain more control over the free market… What we need is less Govt regulation not more…

    • JB

      That’s bullshit. How is putting controls on pirating letting the free market grow? Both corporate/business AND state control of the economy is bad, sir. We need control of the economy by the people, and piracy is one method of doing just that.

      Digital information is free nowadays, people only pay if they want to pay, because they think the creators deserve money for their efforts, but I don’t feel like supporting massive record companies, hollywood or large game studios like EA, so I pirate their products. Whereas I always buy independent, small-scale products legally.

    • Bri

      I totally agree, & it is sad that they are trying to pass this in such a hush hush manner. I just found out about this today & am Pissed

  9. Colorado Dave

    Are we turning into China now?

  10. Chad

    Well if someone would create a online petition against this I would gladly sign my name to it and post a link to in in all my social sites etc.

    I have to say I’m a little disappointed that when I got to the end of reading this that their wasn’t a link to the online petition – in fact I was so mad that I immediately googled to see if one existed….nope, not there (yet).

    I would love to see someone put one together and submit a link to it.

  11. I can’t believe they are taking away our freedom of speech in a sense that we should be able to write what we want, read what we want, and say what we want. If that offends others, they shouldn’t be looking. They shound instead focus on software that would block discriminating sites for those who choose to live in a bubbble. For the rest of us, I say FUCK BIG BROTHER.

  12. Herbert Reed

    NO……….

  13. It’ s good.

    Illegal websites such as escrowrefills.com can then be closed down.
    They scam and operate illegally and no-one is doing anything about it.

    • There are better ways to do that than limiting our freedom of speech.

  14. Let’s look just like China, Iran or Russia. I think that’s a hell of an idea. First comes control of your freedom of speech then everything else is up for grabs because you don’t know what the real truth is. That’s what happened in Germany in the 1920′s and you know the results of that.

  15. I. Stewart

    Dear All,
    Writing to you from the land that was the origins of the founders of the USA, I consider that this idea is being backed by the most evil minded enemy of the States, and is called Political Correctness. It, at present, lurks within the White House, and must be removed. I cannot read the quoted Act PROTECT-IP since Fortinet/Fortiguard is blocking it. The present occupant in the White House, I believe, will possibly use this to destroy the mindset of those who laid down the foundations of America by extending those evil tentacles. It must be opposed upon principle and there must be no more crawling towards that other evilness which lurks in Brussels, and is hanging on by the skin of ite teeth. You, AMERICANS, must destroy Barack Obama. You must also watch out for Obama’s possible attempt to remove your right to bear arms and therefore to totally emasculate you and leave you at the mercy of his Islamic associates and his questionable connections with Islam and their evil spread around the world. I hope that my probably still there American “born and bred” cousins, descended from my Scottish great-uncle are of the correct mindset.

    My kindest regards,
    I.R.Stewart

  16. Matt

    Follow the money. Who lobbied for and funded this new piece of legislation?

  17. I. Stewart

    Dear All,
    Writing to you from the land that was the origins of the founders of the USA, I consider that this idea is being backed by the most evil minded enemy of the States, and is called Political Correctness. It, at present, lurks within the White House, and must be removed. I cannot read the quoted Act PROTECT-IP since Fortinet/Fortiguard is blocking it. The present occupant in the White House, I believe, will possibly use this to destroy the mindset of those who laid down the foundations of America by extending those evil tentacles. It must be opposed upon principle and there must be no more crawling towards that other evilness which lurks in Brussels, and is hanging on by the skin of ite teeth. You, AMERICANS, must destroy Barack Obama. You must also watch out for Obama’s possible attempt to remove your right to bear arms and therefore to totally emasculate you and leave you at the mercy of his Islamic associates and his questionable connections with Islam and their evil spread around the world. I hope that my probably still there American “born and bred” cousins, descended from my Scottish great-uncle are of the correct mindset.
    My kindest regards,
    I.R.Stewart

  18. Das

    .

    Ah haa !
    The Devil himself says he is opposed to evil.

    Soo.. what else is new ?
    .. another attempt to control people
    under the disguise of morality and such.

    Regulations are slow, full of loop holes
    and by the time it catches up, technology will be
    in another place. Then it will look like good old
    regulations on landlines, snail mail and such.

    .

  19. Hell No! What country is this again?! China? Libya? Iran? Hell No you don’t not in my land!

    “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; …”

  20. And what about those sites who report on the unreported stories that go purposely ignored?

    This is a step toward deciding what is good for me – but thats just on the surface. In reality, It would assist in censoring all dirty deeds of the devil, by the devil himself.

  21. No No and No…Just one more Commy Socialist move to control us.

  22. …governmental actions are being compared to the creation of a Great Firewall of America, obviously taking its queue from China’s iron fist control of Internet content its citizens have access to. // The 1% in the USA, as all 1%ers ever in power, are afraid that people who know the truth and can discuss it openly will be inconveniently uncontrollable. Every totalitarian government in history eventually fell due to their aversion to and denial of any will of the people for FAIRNESS. Fairness is all that the OWS, the Arab spring and summer, and other current civic actions are looking for. Until the few with power realize that only cooperation and fairness will achieve peace, there will always be varying degrees of unrest and defiance of un-fairness.

    The political USA today wrapped in the warped capitalist control movement are not the things I fought for in the sixties as a citizen and in the seventies as a citizen-soldier. My remedy: un-elect the current Congress (every incumbent!) by voting only for independents who swear an oath to serve only 12 years maximum in Congress and to support the US Constitution and all its amendments in a transparent government. Wake up America. Your freedoms are being systematically chipped away, and those who conrtol government count on us being lemmings and following each other to our collective middle class deaths. Freedom is not free; it must be earned.

  23. Renee Marino

    This is a blatant attempt to curtail the free flow of information. The corporate elite are looking to ensure that we have less and less power as citizens. With these types of controls in place they hope to disconnect us, divide us, make it more and more difficult for us to organize and cooperate while they continue to have the upper hand. NO is my response, absolutely NOT.

  24. Bob

    Doesn’t the first Amendment take precedents??? Don’t we as a nation have a lot more issues that are far more important, like unemployment, children going hungry, foreclosures, terror threats, our economy in the toilet? Oh, I’m sorry it is all about sucking the ass of the rich businesses so they can take care of the Senate and Congress. It’s obvious that they no longer care about the people, It’s the what’s in it for me mentality that these morons use that is destroying us. What do they care, they get an amazing retirement and never have to lift a finger again. Isn’t our government wonderful, it is so reassuring to see that they want what is best for us by controlling our every move, thought and spoken word… or text,… or typed. Is Hitler back or what??? Let’s face it, our government is, has been and always will be corrupt unless “We the People” do something about it. Now is the time that something is done to let them know that we count and to get the f**k out of our lives. Remember that action speaks louder than words. It’s time for the action of the people. God Bless America… we sure need it now more than ever.

  25. Restricting the Internet in anyway is exactly what dictatorships and third world countries do to prevent access to information. Do we really want to head down this path?

  26. How many laws are to many laws? Unfortunately the majority of people need protection from the parasites and other sociopaths and even from themselves.
    As with everything that has been done before some enterprising mind will find a way around or through or over and brag to someone else and before long this “stop action” will be swiss cheese.
    Don’t get your thong into a wad … life will go on … the challenge will be met and then it’ll be on to the next.

  27. Dana Wagenhoffer

    Government needs to back off & stop there nonsense. I would like them to pay attention to the economy & jobs not to whether they can censor the public internet. Once again a couple representatives get bored and decide they must push there morals & values upon the people. Why not try doing your jobs & represent the people.

  28. I deleted the Youtube videos I have which had been flagged or blocked for copyright reasons. These were of American musicals shown outdoors this summer in Toronto, and using Bacharach music to lyrics I wrote. I suppose as an artist I should respect other artists works although I also do media work. Only the original artist creator and/or producer who funded the work can post/broadcast/publish their own works. No more sharing copyrighted files online.

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