Free Internet is Dying

[longknife]

A top computer-crime defense lawyer says the dream of a free and open Internet is slowly being killed by overregulation, censorship and bad laws that don't stop the right people.


Every time I post something like this, the Libtards come out screaming it's fear mongering and nothing like this could possibly happen. Well, this lawyer doesn't seem to think so. Read the entire story @ Top Internet lawyer warns Black Hat crowd that the free Internet is dying Fox News

 

[Uncensored2008]

You mean that putting the Internet under the 1934 telecommunications act WASN'T a good idea?

I'm shocked - SHOCKED I tells ya...

 

[Moonglow]

I was wonder when it was free, I've always had to pay to use it...

 

[Uncensored2008]

I was wonder when it was free, I've always had to pay to use it...

I'm trying to figure out if you're trying, and failing, to be funny - or if you're really this stupid?

 

[TheOldSchool]

Free intern

A top computer-crime defense lawyer says the dream of a free and open Internet is slowly being killed by overregulation, censorship and bad laws that don't stop the right people.


Every time I post something like this, the Libtards come out screaming it's fear mongering and nothing like this could possibly happen. Well, this lawyer doesn't seem to think so. Read the entire story @ Top Internet lawyer warns Black Hat crowd that the free Internet is dying Fox News

A 4 paragraph article that says nothing.

Meanwhile the internet remains perfectly free. Anyone care to offer up some examples of the internet NOT being free?

 

[waltky]

Appeals court rules trade agency can't regulated digital data...

U.S. trade body cannot block Internet transmissions: appeals court
10 Nov.`15 - A U.S. trade agency does not have power to regulate digital data, a federal appeals court ruled on Tuesday in a case involving a dental brace company's effort to block a rival's electronic transmissions from entering the country. The appeals court decision negates a U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC) ruling last year in favor of Align Technology, Inc, the San Jose, California-based maker of the popular Invisalign plastic braces. Align Technology shares slid 2 percent.

Align had accused competitor ClearCorrect Operating LLC of infringing several patents. The ITC, which can block products from entering the United States, ordered ClearCorrect to stop transmitting digital models produced by technicians in Pakistan to its Texas manufacturing facility. Technology companies and the entertainment industry have followed the case closely because it could affect Internet transmissions and the fight against piracy. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit in Washington, D.C. said data is not a tangible good over which the ITC has authority.

Common sense "dictates that there is a fundamental difference between electronic transmissions and 'material things,'" the court said in a 2-1 decision. Critics said the ITC overstepped its authority when it ordered the company to cease transmission of digital models, because U.S. law gives the commission authority over unfair practices "in the importation of articles." The ITC expanded its jurisdiction to say digital data is included in the definition of "articles."

High-tech companies like Google Inc and other Internet-related groups said global Internet transmissions should flow unimpeded and the ITC should not be authorized to regulate them. But associations for recording artists and Hollywood film studios saw the ITC's decision as an effective tool to fight piracy, most of which happens through electronic downloads and streaming. On Tuesday, the appeals court majority said articles are material things and thus the commission has no jurisdiction over the case.

ClearCorrect's lawyer Michael Myers said in an interview this was the "correct result because the ITC was never intended to be the policeman of Internet or TV transmissions or radio signals." A representative for Align could not immediately be reached for comment. Circuit Judge Pauline Newman dissented from the opinion, saying that the commission must have the power to block the latest forms of infringing technology. Align's shares were trading at $65.74, down $1.34 from Monday's close. The case at the ITC is No. 14-1527.

U.S. trade body cannot block Internet transmissions: appeals court

 

[Moonglow]

Free intern

A top computer-crime defense lawyer says the dream of a free and open Internet is slowly being killed by overregulation, censorship and bad laws that don't stop the right people.


Every time I post something like this, the Libtards come out screaming it's fear mongering and nothing like this could possibly happen. Well, this lawyer doesn't seem to think so. Read the entire story @ Top Internet lawyer warns Black Hat crowd that the free Internet is dying Fox News

A 4 paragraph article that says nothing.

Meanwhile the internet remains perfectly free. Anyone care to offer up some examples of the internet NOT being free?

When you get the monthly bill to keep it on...

 

[waltky]

Granny says...

"Dis board ought to be a good example...

... of how free the internet is...

... with all the lib'rals dey let in here."

 

[Freewill]

I was wonder when it was free, I've always had to pay to use it...

I'm trying to figure out if you're trying, and failing, to be funny - or if you're really this stupid?

Yes.

 

[Freewill]

A top computer-crime defense lawyer says the dream of a free and open Internet is slowly being killed by overregulation, censorship and bad laws that don't stop the right people.


Every time I post something like this, the Libtards come out screaming it's fear mongering and nothing like this could possibly happen. Well, this lawyer doesn't seem to think so. Read the entire story @ Top Internet lawyer warns Black Hat crowd that the free Internet is dying Fox News

As long as Internet message boards are allowed to have violent content, like the forced rape and murder of a person, I think that the Internet is still free.

 

[TheOldSchool]

A top computer-crime defense lawyer says the dream of a free and open Internet is slowly being killed by overregulation, censorship and bad laws that don't stop the right people.


Every time I post something like this, the Libtards come out screaming it's fear mongering and nothing like this could possibly happen. Well, this lawyer doesn't seem to think so. Read the entire story @ Top Internet lawyer warns Black Hat crowd that the free Internet is dying Fox News

As long as Internet message boards are allowed to have violent content, like the forced rape and murder of a person, I think that the Internet is still free.

Yeah the internet's great

 

[anotherlife]

The internet has never been free. You always needed a service provider to give you connectivity. Ad-hoc networks could be free, but they never extend beyond the local village.

 

[Carla_Danger]

A top computer-crime defense lawyer says the dream of a free and open Internet is slowly being killed by overregulation, censorship and bad laws that don't stop the right people.


Every time I post something like this, the Libtards come out screaming it's fear mongering and nothing like this could possibly happen. Well, this lawyer doesn't seem to think so. Read the entire story @ Top Internet lawyer warns Black Hat crowd that the free Internet is dying Fox News

Your story gives no examples of how the internet is dying. Maybe you could give us a couple?

 

[longknife]

A top computer-crime defense lawyer says the dream of a free and open Internet is slowly being killed by overregulation, censorship and bad laws that don't stop the right people.


Every time I post something like this, the Libtards come out screaming it's fear mongering and nothing like this could possibly happen. Well, this lawyer doesn't seem to think so. Read the entire story @ Top Internet lawyer warns Black Hat crowd that the free Internet is dying Fox News

Your story gives no examples of how the internet is dying. Maybe you could give us a couple?

We have the first steps when a government agency issues regulations giving it a degree of control over service providers.

It won't happen overnight. You will wake up one morning, try to log on, and scratch your head trying to figure out what happened.

 

[anotherlife]

A top computer-crime defense lawyer says the dream of a free and open Internet is slowly being killed by overregulation, censorship and bad laws that don't stop the right people.


Every time I post something like this, the Libtards come out screaming it's fear mongering and nothing like this could possibly happen. Well, this lawyer doesn't seem to think so. Read the entire story @ Top Internet lawyer warns Black Hat crowd that the free Internet is dying Fox News

Your story gives no examples of how the internet is dying. Maybe you could give us a couple?

We have the first steps when a government agency issues regulations giving it a degree of control over service providers.

It won't happen overnight. You will wake up one morning, try to log on, and scratch your head trying to figure out what happened.

Since the Comcast merger, it is practically one single entity that handles US internet traffic already. Under such condition, there is no difference from a government anyways.

 

[Carla_Danger]

A top computer-crime defense lawyer says the dream of a free and open Internet is slowly being killed by overregulation, censorship and bad laws that don't stop the right people.


Every time I post something like this, the Libtards come out screaming it's fear mongering and nothing like this could possibly happen. Well, this lawyer doesn't seem to think so. Read the entire story @ Top Internet lawyer warns Black Hat crowd that the free Internet is dying Fox News

Your story gives no examples of how the internet is dying. Maybe you could give us a couple?

We have the first steps when a government agency issues regulations giving it a degree of control over service providers.

It won't happen overnight. You will wake up one morning, try to log on, and scratch your head trying to figure out what happened.

You really have a hard time giving specific examples, so now I'm asking you once again to give a specific example of these regulations, and how its going to end the internet.