The USA is currently trying to push multiple bills that is passed could practically destroy the internet as we know it and doom sites like DA, making encryption iligol, invoking mass internet censorship, and gutting privacy and secruaty protections. For more info and to find out how you can help speck out against these bills see: https://www.badinternetbills.com/ as US congress is hoping to get meany of these bills passed into law before august.
Stop the SMART Copyright Act! [AKA SOPA 2022] by PCX-Art, journal
Stop the SMART Copyright Act! [AKA SOPA 2022]
The following quoted text from: Fight for the Future's https://www.nocensorshipfilter.com/index.html event campaign website to stop this Bill. This bill was made by the same people who made SOPA, and pretty much just as bad. URGENT: Congress is trying to sneak through copyright censorship filters Anyone who creates content or streams online knows that copyright laws are broken and regularly abused. We get frivolous DMCA takedown notices, accounts suspended without warning, and videos demonetized—often without transparency or recourse. Now, politicians are trying to sneak through the so-called “SMART Copyright Act,” a bill that would make all of this way worse by mandating automated censorship filters at nearly every layer of the Internet, from ISPs to streaming platforms. This won’t help artists or creators, it will just wreak havoc on free expression and line the pockets of companies like Disney and Amazon. [Fight for the Future has] heard Congress is hoping to slip this
a group of media company's calling themselves “FairPlay Canada” are currently trying to push a bill into law that is effectively a version of the failed US "Stop Online Piracy Act" (better known as SOPA) Bill that sent the internet into a frenzy prompting sevrol websites to blackout in protest back in 2011
To those who live in the USA and feel that this dos'nt apply to you / that you shouldn't care it's worth pointing out that if this passes in Canada it's EXTREMELY likely to make it's way over to the USA thew ether a trade agreement that coses the US to adopt the Net Censorship law, or for corrupt polotisons / major corperasons
Internet in danger! How to help save it! by PCX-Art, journal
Internet in danger! How to help save it!
If you have been online for any significant amount of time as of recently (and if your reading this there's a good chance you have been) you may have been hearing about this thing called "Net Neutrality" and how we need to save it
For those who don't know Net Neutrality is a rule that makes it so your ISP has to treat your internet conicson the same as everyone elce's, and makes them unable to prevent you from doing stuff on the internet cos they don't want you to, prevent you from visiting any sites (like DeviantArt for example)
However thanks to Donald Trump and the man he appointed to run the USA's FCC [Net Neutrality is currently in dan
Net Neutrality in danger! On July 12th we act! by NoNetCensorshipPlz, journal
Net Neutrality in danger! On July 12th we act!
Net Neutrality is in danger again, President Trump replaced the former FCC chairman with a Verizon lawyer who plans to gut Net Neutrality, and thanks to him the FCC has voted to gut Net Neutrality rules. As a result internet activist group Fight for the Future has set up a global day of internet protest like what was done for SOPA years back. Here is there public announcement:
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Major web companies and public interest groups announce Internet-Wide Day of Action to Save Net Neutrality
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE, June 6, 2017
Contact: Evan Greer, 978-852-6457, press@fightforthefuture.orgOrganizations behind largest online protests in history p