SOPA: Internet community's response to the Internet Blacklist Bill

Before, during and after the American Censorship Day protest on the Web, there's been widespread response and condemnation of the founding of the bill. Justin Beiber condemn it and said that the bill was ridiculous for others to have content removed about users singing a song, and said that US Senator Klobuchar needs to be locked away in cuffs. But he's not the only one, you have Google, Yahoo, EFF, Demand Progress Creative Commons and others condemning the founding of the bill and also took part in the American Censorship day protest on 11/16.

If you were typing the search terms SOPA or Internet Censorship into Google search, they were the two trending search terms before and after the American Censorship day protest.

It may not be too late to encourage your representatives to oppose the SOPA bill: Visit the Electronic Frontier Foundation and look for the Internet Blacklist bill petition on that page.

See RT America's take on SOPA (Stop Online Piracy Act) in this video:

Alex Jones: DOJ to Criminalize Uploading to YouTube!

Alex Jones talks about the US Department of Justice attempting to criminalize the upload of videos at Youtube that violates its Terms of Service.

This includes almost any online action such as creating fake accounts at social sites, uploading copyrighted content, providing false info, etc. To the DOJ, ignoring the TOS may turn millions of users into felons. See the beginning of this video on this news.

Viacom: Allowing Youtube users to view videos on mobile phones violates DMCA safe harbors

Viacom still on the attack at YouTube, now the entertainment corporation says by having users at YouTube watch videos via mobile devices is grounds for losing the DMCA safe harbor protection. Again, Hollywood suggests people get jail time for watching/streaming video and audio content on the Net.

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Facebook & Twitter subject to be tracked by DHS

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security and their agents may soon turn to social network sites to gather intelligence on terrorist/national security threats. If they can spy on anyone on the ground, they can certainly do it online. They’re not doing this just yet, but when DHS receives a tip, the place they may turn to is the Internet and not just limiting to big cities, suburban areas, and small towns. According to PCWorld.com, DHS would need to come up with a way of collecting info related to a national security threat without putting the privacy of many internet users in jeopardy.

It has been admitted that government (federal, state and local) and corporations have used the Net as a tool to spy, and collect analytic info, study search and discussion trends, etc. And perhaps spy on anything and anyone, not limiting to the terrorists and the criminals. David Cameron, the UK prime minister, was hoping that information on social networks be tracked to stump out the criminals, during the recent riots. This is all a reminder that what you post online, whether it’s public domain or otherwise, may be subject to be monitored by government or corporations wanting to dominate the Internet in the future.

PC World: DHS to Set up Policies for Monitoring Twitter, Facebook

NYPD and other US cops tried to erase online evidence of brutality

Today, and recently, the Occupy Wall Street nationwide movement in the U.S. has gained a lot of ground. And those who posted video footage of protests on Youtube and elsewhere did more than help show coverage of most of those protests, that exposed city cops like the NYPD beating protesters and using other methods of dispersing crowds.

From firing projectiles at protesters that struck a protester in the head, to running down a protester with a police motorcycle, police brutality in America is still well-known. Now the NYPD and others are going to Youtube/Google and persuading the people there to erase them, likely because they are depicting unprofessional behavior from cops, trying to handle the protesters on the streets. Sadly they do not want the public to know that they're doing this, but this is nothing new.

During the Civil Rights era in the late 60's, police brutality was quite common in the Southeast US, but the question remains: Has the police departments in that part of the U.S. changed their ways, and can they be trusted?

Will logging onto Facebook become a felony offense soon?

It may not be a crime just yet on the Internet, but this may get you to think twice about using Facebook. An updated version of the The Computer Fraud and Abuse Act could make using a computer that "exceeds authorized access." So what is it about Facebook that the U.S. gov't may or may not want others to do while online? This is all in response to recent hack attacks on Sony, the CIA and other places on the web. See the RT America article below for more.

Logging onto Facebook could become a felony — RT America