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Federal government shuts down 73,000 blogs (Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA))
Tech 1984 ^ | 7/16/10 | Tech 1984

Posted on 07/18/2010 7:33:08 AM PDT by oc-flyfish

I shutter to think what plans are in store for conservative sites when the current administration so quickly violates the free speech rights of 73,000 legitimate sites!


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1 posted on 07/18/2010 7:33:11 AM PDT by oc-flyfish
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To: oc-flyfish

It will be a great day for America when the DMCA is found to be unconstitutional.


2 posted on 07/18/2010 7:35:11 AM PDT by Kleon
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To: oc-flyfish

It is also scary because violations of DCMA could be used as a ruse to shut down almost any site apparently. Very strange the way this one went down.


3 posted on 07/18/2010 7:35:20 AM PDT by oc-flyfish
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To: oc-flyfish
"I shutter to think what plans are in store for conservative sites"

Yeah, it's not a pretty picture. It makes me shudder.

4 posted on 07/18/2010 7:36:37 AM PDT by Enterprise (As a disaster unfolds, a putz putts.)
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To: oc-flyfish

As you probably already thought, a few of these bloggers are going to sue the government for the constitutionality of this under free speech. They can’t do this. And even if they do - don’t you know if we are blessed with a conservative president in 2012, he will reverse a lot of this bull crap that the high holy man has brought into play. What I don’t undertand is how all these powerful people are allowing this to happen


5 posted on 07/18/2010 7:37:41 AM PDT by Nodems2000
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To: Enterprise

Ok, spelling was not my best subject in school. :-) You got me.


6 posted on 07/18/2010 7:38:03 AM PDT by oc-flyfish
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To: Nodems2000

I think the ISPs and hosting companies are scaried to death of the current occupant in the White House. They are afraid of regulation and/or IRS investigations (remember how effectively Clinton used them during his reign of error).


7 posted on 07/18/2010 7:40:02 AM PDT by oc-flyfish
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To: oc-flyfish

They’re making their move....

Gunny G:

Facebook Deletes Gadsen Flag Sites, etc.
http://gunnyg.wordpress.com/2010/07/17/facebook-deletes-official-alex-jones-page-over-gadsden-flag/

Internet Censorship Beginning???
http://torrentfreak.com/u-s-authorities-shut-down-wordpress-host-with-73000-blogs-100716/

Lieberman…Purging The Internet of Dissent

http://gunnyg.wordpress.com/2010/07/15/lieberman%E2%80%99s-model-for-america-purging-the-internet-of-dissent/#more-21586

US Cyber Command...Perfect Citizen Or Big Brother?
http://gunnyg.wordpress.com/2010/07/16/us-cyber-command-%E2%80%A6-%E2%80%9Cperfect-citizen%E2%80%9D-or-big-brother/#more-21595

Glenn Beck Is Warning Us To Grab Everything We Can Off The Internet Because They Are About To Shut It Down!

http://gunnyg.wordpress.com/2010/07/17/glenn-beck-is-warning-us-to-grab-everything-we-can-off-the-internet-because-they-are-about-to-shut-it-down/

Alex Jones — Gubmint Cyber Invasion!
http://gunnyg.wordpress.com/2010/07/17/alex-jones-on-rt-government-cyber-invasion/


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8 posted on 07/18/2010 7:41:36 AM PDT by gunnyg (Surrounded By The Enemy Within--~ Our "Novembers" Are Behind Us...If Ya Can Grok That!)
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To: Nodems2000

What I don’t undertand is how all these powerful people are allowing this to happen
.......................... We are in hard times, the states need money, so, just follow the $$$$$$. “Senator, I have some extra $$$ for a pet project, all you have to do is OK my program and I can assure you, you will have additional money for your state. You can lower the unemployment problem you have buy building the Senator Bubba’s Airport out in the boon docks.” I think that’s pretty much how things get OK’d in Congress.


9 posted on 07/18/2010 7:45:06 AM PDT by Bringbackthedraft (As Americans we must think We the People, not we the Party.)
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To: Nodems2000

What I don’t understand is how all these powerful people are allowing this to happen

Or how all these "powerful people" allowed John McCain, an aging, emotion dominated, incompetent speaker, to be the "conservative" opposing candidate to Barack Obama.

10 posted on 07/18/2010 7:45:24 AM PDT by jnsun (The Left: the need to manipulate others because of nothing productive to offer.)
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To: oc-flyfish
While campaigning for the office of President in 1999, George W. Bush also tried to use the power of the federal government to shut down web sites that he didn't like. He claimed they were spreading falsehoods about his past. The proper (read: conservative) course of action would be to sue them in civil court for libel. Somehow Bush and his advisors thought it would be better to twist and misuse the power of the federal government to shut down web sites he found distasteful.

He tried to get the FEC to classify a parody web site as a PAC. When the FEC told Bush to go pound sand, Bush called a press conference.

At the press conference, he uttered, "There ought to be limits to freedom." What he meant, of course, is that he thought that there ought to be a way to control the freedom of speech.

It looks like Oh,Brother! is simply picking up where Duh!-bya left off.

11 posted on 07/18/2010 7:47:53 AM PDT by Ol' Dan Tucker (People should not be afraid of the government. Governement should be afraid of the people)
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Or how all these "powerful people" allowed John McCain, an aging, emotion dominated, incompetent speaker, to be the "conservative" opposing candidate to Barack Obama.

That's why I like the idea of open primaries.

Republican voters get to vote for the worst Democrat candidate and Democrat voters get to vote for the worst Republican candidate.

So, instead of choosing between the lesser of two evils, as is done now, we will have to choose for voting for one of the two greater evils or choose to vote for a candidate from outside the two-party system.

12 posted on 07/18/2010 7:55:29 AM PDT by Ol' Dan Tucker (People should not be afraid of the government. Governement should be afraid of the people)
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To: gunnyg

SEMPER INTERNET!!!!!


13 posted on 07/18/2010 7:56:16 AM PDT by gunnyg (Surrounded By The Enemy Within--~ Our "Novembers" Are Behind Us...If Ya Can Grok That!)
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To: oc-flyfish
So we have illegals crossing over our southern border unabated, and yet ICE and DHS choose to focus on 73000 blogs instead.

I feel safer already.

14 posted on 07/18/2010 7:58:51 AM PDT by pnh102 (Regarding liberalism, always attribute to malice what you think can be explained by stupidity. - Me)
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To: Kleon
It will be a great day for America when the DMCA is found to be unconstitutional.

Not just that, but any criminal law involving copyright enforcement. It is not right that our tax money is paying for the enforcement of intellectual property rights for private entities.

15 posted on 07/18/2010 7:59:51 AM PDT by pnh102 (Regarding liberalism, always attribute to malice what you think can be explained by stupidity. - Me)
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To: Nodems2000
"And even if they do - don’t you know if we are blessed with a conservative president in 2012, he will reverse a lot of this bull crap that the high holy man has brought into play."

Your faith in the process is admirable, but regardless who gets in I don't think that there is empirical evidence with this crop of politicians we will get anything but the same crap we have already.

It is disturbing that they are doing this but more disturbing is the silence from US. There should be outrage in the streets over this.... infidelity to the constitution and ultimately TREASON to the constitution and the people of this country.

16 posted on 07/18/2010 8:01:42 AM PDT by SERE_DOC (My Rice Krispies told me to stay home & clean my weapons! How does one clean a phase 4 plasma rifle)
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To: pnh102

Exactly. Big government knows what’s best for us. Now sit back and pay your taxes like a good citizen.


17 posted on 07/18/2010 8:03:31 AM PDT by oc-flyfish
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To: SERE_DOC

That’s because the sheeple are still asleep. Hopefully they will turn off So You Want To Dance, American Idol, etc and see what is going on around them.


18 posted on 07/18/2010 8:05:17 AM PDT by oc-flyfish
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What is likely to have happened here is that the FBI seized the server as evidence for a copyright infringement violation. These blogs were hosted on this server and are therefore no longer available.

When you host your blog on a free site, you get what you pay for. If you were thinking ahead, you have kept a backup on your own system and now can go find a reputable host for your blog.


19 posted on 07/18/2010 8:21:11 AM PDT by centurion316
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To: Ol' Dan Tucker

I would have to see a link for that one. I dont remember Bush saying that.
Liberals have a different playbook and it may well have been a PAC that bent the rules.


20 posted on 07/18/2010 8:32:05 AM PDT by winodog
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