ginnyfizz Posted January 20, 2012 Share Posted January 20, 2012 Glad tidings indeed, let's hope it lasts. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vagrant0 Posted January 20, 2012 Share Posted January 20, 2012 Now if people could only cry this loudly over our crappy foreign policy...Africa, parts of Asia/Middle East, Mexico and most of South America are much further away than Facebook and Wikipedia... Oh, foreign policy... For a moment I thought you were talking about corrupt governments and gross human rights violations which are constantly being swept under the rug by the media or companies who have a stake in nothing changing in those regions. But I digress... If there's one constant in politics it's that important issues are usually shelved until they start to impact business deals related to a company that is paying large sums of money to campaigns. This is a fund-rasing election year afterall. Anyway..."It is clear that we need to revisit the approach on how best to address the problem of foreign thieves that steal and sell American inventions and products," Smith said in a statement. :facepalm: :wallbash: :facepalm: :facepalm: :facepalm: Have they tried looking to China? "Criminals who do nothing but peddle in counterfeit products and stolen American content are smugly watching how the United States Senate decided it was not even worth debating how to stop the overseas criminals from draining our economy," Leahy said.Or one of the hundreds of other countries who have complex bootlegging schemes that don't involve American sites or in most cases the free web? Even *not allowed* is only a small fraction of the greater problem. Sorry, but there is "oblivious" and "blind as f***". These comments speak to the later... How is blocking U.S. Citizens from accessing these sites (through a DNS block no less) going to change FOREIGN thieves' behavior exactly? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fatalmasterpiece Posted January 20, 2012 Share Posted January 20, 2012 Yes, and this is why I love Barak Obama: He understands Free Speech. I mean come on. Constitutional Law professor.I am seriously on the floor laughing right now. You have NO IDEA. As for Megaupload: http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2012/01/why-the-feds-smashed-megaupload.arsThey had it coming, in spades, and then some. That article is a joke. It describes their spending as if the very corporate CEOs and movie stars that wanted them hunted down didn't do the same. This article also claims guilt when there hasn't even been a trial. What a poor piece of "journalism". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
buddah Posted January 20, 2012 Share Posted January 20, 2012 Enough, this has served it's purpose and now is just flame bait and a haven for trolls, like the post above. >LOCKED< Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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