[SGVLUG] SOPA Workarounds?

[Arthur Baldwin]

I'm not much of an artist, but here's an idea for a great newspaper cartoon:

Uncle Sam with huge boots on...in a standing position...muttering to himself..."must get rid of this Internet infection" ...as he points a shotgun at his own feet...both of which are "infected" with the "vines" of the Internet.

That might get some senators and congressmen/women to begin thinking!



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 From: Arthur Baldwin <eengnerd at yahoo.com>
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Sent: Wednesday, December 21, 2011 3:57 PM
Subject: Re: [SGVLUG] SOPA Workarounds?
 

Hmm...it seems to me that this "workaround" would have to be used by all ISPs in order to comply with the requirements of the two bills when required to do so by a government agency.  That said, this means that it would not be very long until anyone and everyone who really cared, whether located in a "free country" or not, would also be aware of the workaround.  And the efforts of this bill would be rendered useless...without some new technology being invented....and this process would be repeated and repeated...until the system would be very buggy and unstable.
Can anyone picture this...Uncle Sam pointing a shotgun at his own foot!



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 From: John Kreznar <jek at ininx.com>
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Sent: Wednesday, December 21, 2011 3:48 PM
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In a posting purporting to be from "dave" <dave at iheartubuntu.com> but
lacking a digital signature, it is written:

> I still have a hard time grasping the fact the SOPA bill could actually 
> happen, but if it does it is nice to have some workarounds.

Hooray!  So much better to just walk around political obstacles, rather
than further ratifying political process by joining them in their
battles.

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