US Bill Creating the Great Firewall of America

Re:US Bill Creating the Great Firewall of America by stupandaus on Tuesday November 15, 2011 @10:15AM (#3238438)

I wasn't intending to speak in hyperbole, although I understand that I may have come across that way. I tried not to dive into too technical of stuff, but provisions to allow control of DNS servers is not something to be taken lightly. In addition, the SOPA model puts the burden of proof on the accused party and allows the alleged infringed rightsholder to suspend their services immediately upon making a claim.

I guess the point I'm trying to make is that this is a huge shift in the balance of power which makes it end up sounding like hyperbole.

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Re:US Bill Creating the Great Firewall of America by anigbrowl on Tuesday November 15, 2011 @10:23AM (#3238476)

SOPA can say you have to stand on one leg and recite the pledge of allegiance backwards, but courts will have the final say on what the allowable scope of the law is. The whole point of having an independent judicial branch is that it provides us with a fine-grained mechanism for watering down stupid or even malicious overreach on the part of the legislative or executive branches.

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Re:US Bill Creating the Great Firewall of America by twoodfin on Tuesday November 15, 2011 @10:20AM (#3238468)

All that is fine, but the Chinese analogy is inapt.

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Re:US Bill Creating the Great Firewall of America by stupandaus on Tuesday November 15, 2011 @10:24AM (#3238481)

Yeah. I guess in the end I am still speaking in hyperbole whenever I compare it to the Chinese situation. Unfortunately, I feel like the non-technical populace simply won't understand it any other way. There are no comparable systems. Unfortunately, I'm not sure that we have at this time the luxury of broaching this subject lightly. I tried to avoid being heavy-handed about it as much as possible, but I don't know how else to approach it.

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