How Congress Censored the Internet

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▶How Congress Censored the Internet Anonymous 03/24/18 (Sat) 13:16:05 No.887982>>887997 >>889537 >>889586 [Watch Thread][Show All Posts]

>Today was a dark day for the Internet.

>The U.S. Senate just voted 97-2 to pass the Allow States and Victims to Fight Online Sex Trafficking Act (FOSTA, H.R. 1865), a bill that silences online speech by forcing Internet platforms to censor their users. As lobbyists and members of Congress applaud themselves for enacting a law tackling the problem of trafficking, let’s be clear: Congress just made trafficking victims less safe, not more.

>The version of FOSTA that just passed the Senate combined an earlier version of FOSTA (what we call FOSTA 2.0) with the Stop Enabling Sex Traffickers Act (SESTA, S. 1693). The history of SESTA/FOSTA---a bad bill that turned into a worse bill and then was rushed through votes in both houses of Congress—is a story about Congress’ failure to see that its good intentions can result in bad law. It’s a story of Congress’ failure to listen to the constituents who’d be most affected by the laws it passed. It’s also the story of some players in the tech sector choosing to settle for compromises and half-wins that will put ordinary people in danger.

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2018/03/how-congress-censored-internet

▶Anonymous 03/24/18 (Sat) 13:29:46 No.887994>>889540

>muh free speech

▶Anonymous 03/24/18 (Sat) 13:35:17 No.887997>>889537

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>>887982 (OP)

"we care so much about this that we didn't use our network over https://www.internetdefenseleague.org/ to raise awareness"

t. EFF

▶Anonymous 03/24/18 (Sat) 14:47:27 No.888012>>889584

craiglist shut down their personals relationship thing because of it

▶Anonymous 03/24/18 (Sat) 15:21:17 No.888019

I'm currently raping a child as we speak, time to shut down 8ch.

▶Anonymous 03/27/18 (Tue) 08:03:36 No.889537>>889634

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>>887997

>>887982 (OP)

>muh EFF

EVERY FUCKING TIME

▶Anonymous 03/27/18 (Tue) 08:20:45 No.889540>>889543 >>889579 >>889581

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>>887994

We still have free speech. Just not over the internet. But that's okay. The internet doesn't have to be your platform. Get up out of your chairs, go over to your window, open it up and yell "I'm mad as hell, and I'm not going to take it anymore!"

▶Anonymous 03/27/18 (Tue) 08:24:58 No.889543

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>>889540

>mfw all speech is free speech if the secret police don't hear it and nobody reports it

>mfw this is the system's worst nightmare come true

▶Anonymous 03/27/18 (Tue) 10:24:44 No.889579

>>889540

I tried that and some people down the street shouted back "Aloha Snackbar!"

▶Anonymous 03/27/18 (Tue) 10:30:19 No.889581

>>889540

>open window and yell "I'm mad as hell, and I'm not going to take it anymore!"

>neighbor in tears, police called

>"do you have any weapons sir? your going to have to come with us"

>"mandatory 3 day mental evaluation in hospital prison"

>warrant issued, weapons taken

>unable to vote

>unable to sign legal documents or bank without legal guardian

>try to leave country to get out of this hell

>passport denied for mental health reasons

▶Anonymous 03/27/18 (Tue) 10:37:27 No.889584

>>888012

Is wonderful all of the fags are rioting because they can't solicit strangers to stick cock anymore.

▶Anonymous 03/27/18 (Tue) 10:40:08 No.889586

>>887982 (OP)

>Fight Online Sex Trafficking Act

I hate when bills are named in a way where people who are against it are countered by others who have just heard the title of the bill.

>I'm against the Fight Online Sex Trafficking Act because it puts much of a

<What? How can you be against stopping online sex trafficing?

<Are you a rapist?

<Think of all the children.

▶Anonymous 03/27/18 (Tue) 10:43:32 No.889589

>The platform liability created by new Section 230 carve outs applies retroactively---meaning the increased liability applies to trafficking that took place before the law passed.

rip 8ch

▶Anonymous 03/27/18 (Tue) 10:52:06 No.889593>>889596

Congress censored Americans, not The Internet.

I am from EU and this does whatever USA law does not affect me.

▶Anonymous 03/27/18 (Tue) 11:03:10 No.889596>>889735

>>889593

think again, bozo. Most sites are hosted in America, and another law passed that allows the US to force other countries to censor or give info from foreign servers that are owned by US companies

▶Anonymous 03/27/18 (Tue) 13:20:21 No.889634

>>889537

What is this and why should I care?

▶Anonymous 03/27/18 (Tue) 16:00:48 No.889714

It was inevitable. They passed no NN now they passed this. It's obvious nobody can enforce this law universally since almost every webhost is a victim of it. So they will selectively enforce it.

Suck it up faggots.

▶Anonymous 03/27/18 (Tue) 16:44:30 No.889735>>889780

>>889596

>Most sites are hosted in America

Yeah, most sites hosted in US are shit anyways, nothing of value will be lost.

▶Anonymous 03/27/18 (Tue) 18:47:28 No.889780>>889787

>>889735

what's a site not hosted in US that isn't shit?

▶Anonymous 03/27/18 (Tue) 18:58:01 No.889787>>889807

>>889780

Here's one: myabandonware.com

You can also find a lot of 80's microcomputer-related stuff on european servers. I care a lot more about those than trendy modern botnet shit.

Other example: http://www.autometer.de/unix4fun/z80pack/index.html

▶Anonymous 03/27/18 (Tue) 19:47:06 No.889807

>>889787

I prefer abandonia but I don't know where it's hosted.

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