Copyright As A Form Of Censorship (Again).

Yes I know, I talked about this before, and yes I was dismissed as a conspiracy theorist.

But that was before things like attacks on net neutrality, the Viacom and Warner Music Group lawsuits involving Youtube, the DMCA tools that have often been illegally exploited to violate the safety and privacy of everyone online, Orwellian attempts of legislation such as SOPA, PIPA, ACTA, and so on, and the whole legal farce of Ken Penders.

Looks like the threat was bigger than I thought. Sure there are plenty of people standing up to things like this now, but there have been a few setbacks. Keep in mind these patent trolls are never going to stop, so the struggle continues.

And now there's this.

https://www.youtube....h?v=a7wu4qXnu5Y

https://www.youtube....h?v=xrpGV_Lwmw4

Think about it. Is a restricted internet really the type of "freedom" that so many fought for?

Oh, by the way, happy Independence Day.

I do completely agree with you; we have to be constantly vigilant against these harmful laws. Copyright today isn't being used for what it was originally intended, which was protect an artist's or an inventor's ideas so he/she could profit from it. Instead today you see a lot of big business using the same laws to keep the little guy out and what's worse big media has bought enough influence from politicians so it can essentially write and send their own bills through our government. Special interest in ruining our country through their puppeteering of our elected officials; that's why I'm voting out every incumbent from now on, as it was once said: politicians are like diapers and need to be changed frequently and for the same reason.

But seriously, the main problem comes from the fact that our government has allowed many, many mergers, especially in the media and now we have gone from hundreds of media outlets 40 years ago to, I believe the number right now is 5. That's five entities that control most of the news you watch, the television you watch, the radio and music you listen to, and most of the papers and magazines you read. People can bury their heads in the sand and call you a conspiracy nut all they want, but facts are facts when you have so few controlling so much it's no wonder why things have gotten so bad. What we really need is another Theodore Roosevelt to do some good old fashioned trust busting, so we can have some competition in the media again.