” Dear friends,
Right now, the U.S. Congress is debating a law that would GIVE the country the POWER TO CENSOR the Internet around the WOLRD – creating a blacklist that may have YouTube, Wikileaks and even Avaaz as targets! Champions of free speech in Congress said they will help our cry, and a Senator will prevent a vote by reading our signatures for hours!

Under this new law, the U.S. can force Internet providers to BLOCK any website that is suspected of violating copyright laws and intellectual property, or that fail to adequately police the activities of its users. And, because the majority of Internet hosting services are located in the U.S., :-x this blacklist could stifle free web for all of US.
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For years, the U.S. government condemned countries like China and Iran for the crackdown on Internet use.
But the impact of the new censorship laws in North America may be even worse – effectively blocking sites for all Internet users around the planet.

Last year, a similar bill for Internet censorship was stopped before reaching the U.S. Senate :-D , but now this project is back in a different way. COPYRIGHT LAWS and COPYRIGHT ALREADY EXIST and ARE ENFORCED BY THE COURTS. But this NEW LAW GOES MUCH FURHTER – it gives the government and large corporations ENORMOUS powers to force service providers and search engines to BLOCK websites based solely on allegations of violations – without a trial or proof that the “crime” happened!”

http://www.eutimes.net/2011/12/us-continues-to-threaten-internet-freedom/