Wyden is also co-sponsoring theOPEN Act, an alternative that focuses on foreign sites and requires due process before shutdown or seizure.From reading the text, the mechanism seems to be financial embargo of any payment processing or advertising for that domain, by U.S. companies. So essentially they would get the wikileaks treatment, I think. Although I'm not sure if the law would require the denial of payment processing for foreign users. Would people in, for example, Sweden still be able to use their Visa card to donate to the pirate bay? Or buy knockoff Louis Vuitton bags?
There's a billion examples of this on there and I had joined them back in 2003, when it was just that they were hells-a-poppin' cheap compared to Network Solutions, who themselves had broken DNS (via their default-to-us-if-the-domain-isn't-around trick) for greed, that GoDaddy seemed like a win-win.I still have a couple domains at register.com that I need to move somewhere else. The worst part is that I never even log onto it, so I usually renew the domains for a long time so I don't lose them. Which makes me log on even less. I ended up losing a domain that way, one that had hosted a somewhat popular website for a while, one that I thought would be fun to re-start at some point in the future.
bored salarymen dreaming of starting the next Facebook.Hahah, true. My domain list is mostly detritus from thinking up some awesome idea that mostly never really got any farther then then buying the domain name.
... We've got to educate activists on how to more effectively send their voice to Washington, and we've got to educate Washington on how to more effectively hear those voices.posted by Llama-Lime at 11:27 AM on December 23, 2011 [1 favorite]
[Photo of unreadable defense-contractor schlop software]
So ask yourself: does this look like the kind of software that you'd want to use to hear from your 717,000 constituents? Sure, it's a CRM, and not a lot of CRM's look "great to use" but this one, clearly belongs on Daring Fireball's User Interface of the Week not just for its patently bad interface but also for the harm its doing to democracy. --Dear Internet: It's No Longer OK to Not Know How Congress Works
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It’s Someone who makes a deliberate decision to remove a vast amount of news and information sources from one’s diet, sticking to a well constrained allowable set of consumption inputs for their own health’s sake.
I'd say there are probably better people to work with against this than Erik Eriksson. His last Internet advocacy campaign wasn't exactly stellar.Having left and right-wing grassroots working together could, in theory be pretty powerful. The whole thing with the Kotch brothers and their funding of the tea party is to fragment the middle class and poor so they can't effectively fight back against wallstreet. Plus erikson is advocating that this be done in the correct way, via primary campaigns
A fund should be created and the left should go out and find candidates to take on the Democrat sponsors. The right should go out and find candidates to take on the Republican sponsors. Heck, maybe Act Blue would let us on the right come by and we can all use their pre-existing platform (a platform no one on the right has even been able to really compete with. Seriously, I’m a big admirer).Too many people don't realize that the only way to get rid of a long-term incumbent is to take them on in a primary campaign. Going after them in the general is just not going to work, districts are way to gerrymandered, and unless there are big demographic shifts or lines need to be re-drawn or whatever, incumbents rarely lose.
GoDaddy has NOT withdrawn its official congressional support os SOPA"Official" support is not that important. What matters is lobbying dollars. But making an example of GoDaddy is a good idea.
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