"First they came for the Communists,
and I didn’t speak up,
because I wasn’t a Communist.
Then they came for the Jews,
and I didn’t speak up,
because I wasn’t a Jew.
Then they came for the Catholics,
and I didn’t speak up,
because I was a Protestant.
Then they came for me,
and by that time there was no one
left to speak up for me."
~ Martin Niemoller
Inernet Censorship: Past, Present and Future
"Think SOPA and PIPA have been buried? Think again. The federal government is NOT going to give up until they get full congressional approval on internet censorship measures and open legal license to enforce those measures. For now, they have relegated their attacks to a relatively small number of sites, mostly dealing in downloadable media. However, as SOPA went down the tubes due to mass civil fury, the feds have come back more quietly with the ACTA, an international treaty which would actually create an unelected unaccountable regulating body like the WTO to govern the spread of "copyrighted material". This is nonsense of course."
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