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And Big Brother just keeps on coming for your Internet. Can he be stopped? And do you really want someone like Eric Holder snooping around on you deciding what's right or wrong? Eric Holder??
In a statement released Tuesday, House oversight committee Chairman Darrell Issa criticized an amendment proposed by Texas Republican Rep. Lamar Smith to the controversial Stop Online Piracy Act, saying it does not fix anything and would give “Attorney General Eric Holder’s Department of Justice broad new powers to police the Internet.”
SOPA, which is Smith’s bill, would place authority over websites that facilitate copyright infringement under Justice Department jurisdiction.
The bill — heavily criticized by politicians, social networking sites and political advocacy groups for its “broad reach” — is expected to see full committee markup before Smith’s House Judiciary Committee Thursday.
“The manager’s amendment retains the fundamental flaws of its predecessor by blocking Americans’ ability to access websites, imposing costly regulation on web companies and giving Attorney General Eric Holder’s Department of Justice broad new powers to police the internet,” said Issa.
The Obama administration — through the Federal Trade Commission’s recent settlements with Google and Facebook, and the Federal Communications Commission’s passage of its so-called “net neutrality” regulations — has slowly expanded the executive branch’s power over the Internet.
Read more: Darrell Issa | Online Piracy Bill | SOPA | Policing The Internet | The Daily Caller
In a statement released Tuesday, House oversight committee Chairman Darrell Issa criticized an amendment proposed by Texas Republican Rep. Lamar Smith to the controversial Stop Online Piracy Act, saying it does not fix anything and would give “Attorney General Eric Holder’s Department of Justice broad new powers to police the Internet.”
SOPA, which is Smith’s bill, would place authority over websites that facilitate copyright infringement under Justice Department jurisdiction.
The bill — heavily criticized by politicians, social networking sites and political advocacy groups for its “broad reach” — is expected to see full committee markup before Smith’s House Judiciary Committee Thursday.
“The manager’s amendment retains the fundamental flaws of its predecessor by blocking Americans’ ability to access websites, imposing costly regulation on web companies and giving Attorney General Eric Holder’s Department of Justice broad new powers to police the internet,” said Issa.
The Obama administration — through the Federal Trade Commission’s recent settlements with Google and Facebook, and the Federal Communications Commission’s passage of its so-called “net neutrality” regulations — has slowly expanded the executive branch’s power over the Internet.
Read more: Darrell Issa | Online Piracy Bill | SOPA | Policing The Internet | The Daily Caller
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