This thing is too powerful, it must be sanitized, monetized, and neutered. Individuals must not be allowed to converse freely, no government can withstand independent thought. Watch as it disappears.

7/26/2010 2:53:07 PM

Was the sarcasm really thread-worthy? At all?

7/26/2010 2:53:56 PM

If it takes you down with it, I'd say it's at worst a wash.

[Edited on July 26, 2010 at 3:02 PM. Reason : *]

7/26/2010 3:01:52 PM

move to chit chat?

[Edited on July 26, 2010 at 3:03 PM. Reason : from now on, any post I might otherwise locate in a thread will become its own topic]

7/26/2010 3:02:55 PM

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"This thing is too powerful, it must be... monetized"

We can only pray that no one tries to use the internet to make money. Perhaps I can make a website arguing against such practices. I'll just need to buy a clever domain name from someone who swiped up one of the good ones already, then I can put up some ads for some useless products to help offset the cost of the hosting the website or maybe just sell some junk on ebay to cover my costs, and maybe I could even put up a little donation tip jar paypal link for people who agree with my anti-monetized internet philosophy... heck I might even be able to make a little money off this.

7/26/2010 4:01:33 PM

Doesn't google sites let you put up web pages for free?

7/26/2010 4:08:23 PM

Quote :

"Watch as it disappears"

7/26/2010 4:33:28 PM

Quote :

"This thing is too powerful, it must be sanitized, monetized, and neutered. Individuals must not be allowed to converse freely, no government can withstand independent thought. Watch as it disappears. "

100% agree. Pretty soon the internet will be monitored and locked down just like we are in real life. Our freedom is only as good as our money.

7/26/2010 5:18:46 PM

terrible thread is terrible

7/26/2010 5:30:35 PM

The Australian internet filter has been delayed until after elections. Expect ours to appear around the same time. It will pass congress easily, both political parties fear their constituency.

7/26/2010 9:19:08 PM

7/26/2010 9:22:55 PM

Dance while you can kitty.

Because political dissent will be crushed under the guise of stopping kitty porn.

7/26/2010 9:24:51 PM

Well we are running out of IP addresses so it will happen soon enough.

7/26/2010 9:56:05 PM

^ ipv6, problem solved

7/27/2010 9:35:54 AM

ipv6 is dumb as hell.

7/27/2010 9:38:37 AM

http://news.bbc.co.uk/local/bristol/hi/people_and_places/newsid_8855000/8855460.stm

7/27/2010 10:35:24 AM

Quote :

"Since when do we allow parody threads in Soapbox"

7/27/2010 12:05:42 PM

You bitches better change your tone or I'm not going to let you borrow my copy of wikipedia on DVDs.

7/27/2010 4:18:57 PM

Google Destroys Net Neutrality, Despite Claims they support it.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/05/technology/05secret.html?_r=3&src=twt&twt=nytimes

The End is Near



[Edited on August 5, 2010 at 11:46 AM. Reason : .]

8/5/2010 11:40:58 AM

[lock]

8/5/2010 12:23:39 PM

^
You should be suspended.

8/5/2010 12:35:16 PM

Why?

8/5/2010 1:18:19 PM

bump

11/19/2010 12:38:36 AM

COICA FTL

11/19/2010 1:44:35 AM

http://uk.reuters.com/article/idUKTRE6AH3RF20101118

If they can shut down youku.com for inappropriate content, they can shut down thewolfweb.com for inappropriate content...or for no reason whatsoever. The hard part is creating the legal infrastructure...once it's in place adding a site to the blocklist is as simple as a phone call from a political ally.

11/19/2010 1:56:18 PM

The bill has been blocked until next session...but for how long?
http://www.geekosystem.com/ron-wyden-internet-censorship-bill/

11/25/2010 1:21:13 PM

No law necessary. Homeland Security has censored 76 domains without warrants, some unrelated to piracy.
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2010/11/homeland-security-shuts-dozens-sites/?tech

11/26/2010 9:59:30 PM

^ despite that article’s claims, it looks like a court-order was in fact issued:




[Edited on November 27, 2010 at 11:20 AM. Reason : ]

11/27/2010 11:20:19 AM

The government isn't dishonest because the government says so!

11/27/2010 11:33:10 AM

Ideally this is a civil matter. Victim company sues offending company in the respective country and then their equipment is seized based on court order.

But here we have the government acting on behalf of their corporate owners, no surprise there.

But this is the first time the government has shut down sites by manipulating ICANN. This is an important line that they've crossed. They've shut down sites hosted overseas, and blocked access to the entire world. Since ICANN is a US government organization, you can expect Russia and China to start bypassing it with their own alternatives soon.

Russia and China no longer use the american dollar. Soon they will no longer use the american internet.

11/27/2010 2:29:46 PM

Visa, Mastercard and Paypal all down. This will give the oligarchy all the reason it needs to convince the public to let it crush the internet.

Compile alternative contact information while you can, friends.

12/9/2010 12:08:18 AM

One could argue that by undermining the bulk of the credit card and online payment system, they're potentially destroying, or at very least setting back, the growth Internet commerce. Whether you are for against credit cards and the banks that back them as a whole, there really isn't any other good or convenient alternative to them for online transactions.

12/9/2010 12:43:08 PM

This is going to be buried by the Rep Gifford story today, but it will be worth revisiting later:


Obama Eyeing Internet ID for Americans

Quote :

"President Obama is planning to hand the U.S. Commerce Department authority over a forthcoming cybersecurity effort to create an Internet ID for Americans, a White House official said here today. It's "the absolute perfect spot in the U.S. government" to centralize efforts toward creating an "identity ecosystem" for the Internet, White House Cybersecurity Coordinator Howard Schmidt said. That news, first reported by CNET, effectively pushes the department to the forefront of the issue, beating out other potential candidates including the National Security Agency and the Department of Homeland Security. The move also is likely to please privacy and civil liberties groups that have raised concerns in the past over the dual roles of police and intelligence agencies."

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-501465_162-20027837-501465.html

1/8/2011 3:29:50 PM

It's amazing how they spin these things as "progressive" or "modern" advances, when it's really just the same old trick governments have been pulling since the beginning of civilization.

1/8/2011 3:31:40 PM

Well, it does please me a bit that the Commerce Department will be in charge of this. But I still don't like this at all.

1/8/2011 3:34:10 PM

Yeah, whoever wrote this piece knows next to shit about civil-liberties groups if they think a national internet ID would be any more palatable coming from the FCC (and presupposes that the NSA wouldn't obtain all those records in the first place.)

1/8/2011 3:53:11 PM

Quote :

"Dance while you can kitty."

1/10/2011 9:33:28 AM

I'm not too surprised this is happening. I wonder if this will evolve similar to the Social Security Number: what started as a simple identifier for a very specific task is going to soon become the de facto standard identification for all American eCommerce. They're right: government may not mandate it to be used, but businesses might for online transactions.

1/10/2011 1:50:42 PM

U.S. Government Seizes 84,000 Websites By Mistake.
http://torrentfreak.com/u-s-government-shuts-down-84000-websites-by-mistake-110216/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Torrentfreak+%28Torrentfreak%29

2/16/2011 3:20:23 PM

So has the interwebs been shut down yet?

I can't tell because I don't venture outside the safe confines
of AOL. AOL is all the interwebs anyone needs.

2/16/2011 7:29:21 PM