The March of Internet Censorship

Congressmen never heard of freedom of speech
Political hacks are frightened of Freedom.  Even in the United States the White House is suggesting that a "internet driver's license" might be required for the right to go on the internet.


Internet Freedom is under attack by governments from all over the world.

• The Bill of Rights, Freedom of Speech has no meaning to politicians.

The White House and others have proposed the issuing of an "internet driver's license" that would be required in order to access the internet.

In the U.S. a typical bi-partisan group of political hacks in Congress are advocating a massive crack down and regulation of the internet.

In recent weeks the governments of Britain, Israel, the US, Japan, India and China have reported alleged cyber attacks by foreign militaries, hackers, and malicious software like Duqu, a virus similar to the Stuxnet cyber weapon constructed by Israel and the US for use against Iran's nuclear program.

Although the nature and origin of the attacks or even whether they took place at all cannot be independently confirmed, the supposed threats are being used to propose punishing new legislation aimed at stifling internet freedoms and are igniting new rivalries in what many see as the battlefield of the 21st century: cyberspace.

Video  -  Attack on Internet Freedom

The conservative and liberal blogospheres are unifying behind opposition to Congress’s Stop Online Piracy Act, with right-leaning bloggers aruging their very existence could be wiped out if the anti-piracy bill passes.

“If either the U.S. Senate’s Protect IP Act (PIPA) & the U.S. House’s Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) become law, political blogs such as Red Mass Group [conservative] & Blue Mass Group [liberal] will cease to exist,” wrote a blogger at Red Mass Group.

Some have asserted that the controversial measures would criminalize blogs that link to foreign websites dedicated to online piracy. In particular, this has concerned search engines like Google, which could face massive liability if some form of the bill passes. 

 

“Of course, restrictions of results provided by Internet search engines amount to just that: prior restraint of their free expression of future results. Google and others, under SOPA, are told what they can or can’t publish before they publish it. Kill. The. Bill,” conservative blogger Neil Stevens argued at RedState.  (Politico)

(Visualizing SOPA)