Page 7 of 9

Re: Help Stop Online Censorship

Posted: Fri Jan 20, 2012 11:02 pm
by Main Streeter
hobie16 wrote:They're in the classic masters series. :cool:
Just like YOU & Zazu are! :cool: You were fishing for this. I know it! ;)

Re: Help Stop Online Censorship

Posted: Sat Jan 21, 2012 9:51 am
by hobie16
Main Streeter wrote: You were fishing for this. I know it! ;)
How could you even think such a thing? :eek:

Re: Help Stop Online Censorship

Posted: Sat Jan 21, 2012 10:21 am
by shilohmm
WEDFan wrote: Oops. :soap: Dang, I seem to have gotten up here again! :o:
I pretty much agreed with everything you said. :)

Salman Khan's take on things:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=pl ... zqMoOk9NWc

Even though he mentions the fact that producers can contest stuff right now (i.e., that there's already laws in place to protect them), someone replies:
say what you will, even though I dont like where such a law may lead to myself, in the end I gotta admit its only fair.
I'm thinking their definition of fair is "the right people get to be bullies." :rolleyes:

Re: Help Stop Online Censorship

Posted: Sat Jan 21, 2012 1:51 pm
by felinefan
Another survey on MSN showed most people still aren't sure about what's going on, but there was a significant number who supported shooting down these two bills. I tried logging on here, got the protest banner. Tried ICHC, same deal. I'm going over there in a bit to see what's happened since.

Re: Help Stop Online Censorship

Posted: Sun Jan 22, 2012 6:16 am
by Main Streeter
hobie16 wrote:How could you even think such a thing? :eek:
Cuz you are guys & I am not stupid ;) plus I wanted to read your comeback post. :D:

Re: Help Stop Online Censorship

Posted: Sun Jan 22, 2012 9:39 pm
by Big Wallaby
Main Streeter wrote:You were fishing for this.
Nothing wrong with fishing. There is nothing in the world like that first glimpse of the fish you got on the line. And then the moment when you bring it aboard the boat and have to walk over to the head to whack it.

Re: Help Stop Online Censorship

Posted: Sun Jan 22, 2012 10:04 pm
by Shorty82
Big Wallaby wrote:Nothing wrong with fishing. There is nothing in the world like that first glimpse of the fish you got on the line. And then the moment when you bring it aboard the boat and have to walk over to the head to whack it.
There's everything wrong with fishing! Fish are friends, not food! :D:

Re: Help Stop Online Censorship

Posted: Sun Jan 22, 2012 10:06 pm
by delsdad
Shorty82 wrote:There's everything wrong with fishing! Fish are friends, not food! :D:
Yummy, tasty friends... :bruce:

Re: Help Stop Online Censorship

Posted: Mon Jan 23, 2012 5:30 am
by Main Streeter
Big Wallaby wrote:Nothing wrong with fishing. There is nothing in the world like that first glimpse of the fish you got on the line. And then the moment when you bring it aboard the boat and have to walk over to the head to whack it.
Too late for me BW. I have no bright comeback. :o: Cept it's a typical guy post && you are not typical. Not in my book. :)

Re: Help Stop Online Censorship

Posted: Mon Jan 23, 2012 8:14 pm
by avengador1
Here is an interesting article on why the government wants control of the internet.
http://godfatherpolitics.com/3293/why-t ... -internet/
It wasn’t too long ago that that we had three sources of national news: ABC, CBS, and NBC. Print media were limited to the daily newspaper and national news magazines like Time, Newsweek, and U.S. News & World Report. No more.

The media gatekeepers are few and far between today. The last gate – the biggest gate – is the internet. If it can’t be controlled, the people can’t be controlled. That’s why governments around the world are working to implement ways to control it. A nation like China just does it, but here in the United States the pretense of a legitimate legal remedy must be found.

Read more at the link.
Those who give up liberty for security have neither.