WhiteHouse Pressuring Registrars to block sites

[LiberalArkie]

<http://yro.slashdot.org/story/10/09/30/1849242/White-House-Pressuring-Registrars-To-Block-Sites}[br />
"While the Senate is still debating a bill that would force registrars and ISPs to block access to sites deemed "infringing," it appears that the White House's IP Czar is already holding meetings with ISPs, registrars and payment processors to start voluntarily blocking access to sites it doesn't like. Initially, they're focused on online pharmacies, but does anyone think it will only be limited to such sites? ICANN apparently has refused to attend the meetings, pointing out that they're "inappropriate." Doesn't it seem wrong for the US gov't to be pushing private companies to censor the internet without due process?"

<http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20100929/20293711230/even-without-coica-white-house-asking-registrars-to-voluntarily-censor-infringing-sites.shtml>

[FiveGoodMen]

1. The beginnings of the Ministry of Truth

[LiberalArkie]

2. I read about the bill but figured it was about music and stuff

Not to protect the drug industry and God knows what else..

[FiveGoodMen]

3. Even if it sticks to just that, I think the Intellectual Property industry,

which usually owns the rights to works it never helped create, has too much power now.

[Toucano]

7. Amen!

Enough is enough and too much stinks!

[old mark]

4. Just one more link in the total control of all of us by "our" government

where corporations are people.


mark

[Autumn]

5. It does indeed seem very wrong

K/R

[girl gone mad]

6. That's so fucked up.

I know people who use online pharmacies. Some of them could become very ill or even die if Obama does this because they simply can't afford to pay US prices for their medications.

What a messed up country we're living in.