arstechnica.com — The Global Online Freedom Act aims to hold US-based companies liable for aiding Internet censorship in countries such as China, and for turning over personally-identifiable information except for "legitimate foreign law enforcement purposes." The catch: the president has the discretion to waive the law's requirements in the name of national securit
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viendMay 3, 2008
In Soviet Russia it did.
fearmymulletMay 3, 2008
who the F*ck is this Bill guy anyways?
zeromancerMay 3, 2008
right on, hungryman. This is a good bill in principle, but it STILL goes against Net Neutrality. If you're regulating the internet so it isn't regulated, guess what? it's still being regulated. And who the f**k is the United States to be the one to do it? The Internet belongs to the people. It's the last frontier, and the last place freedom can reside. Keep the government's dirty fingers out of it.
Closed AccountMay 3, 2008
I completely agree. First, too many Republicans aren't going to care enough to get this passed. Secondly, in the remote chance it does get passed, it won't have any effect, especially in China, since Chinese censorship is a "legitimate foreign law enforcement purpose", or so China/Yahoo/Google would argue.
smotpoker1May 4, 2008
put Comcast on that list for throttling .
redxxxMay 6, 2008
I think the whole thing where our court system tried to strike down Wikileaks might be more relevant. I don't think there is anything in the bill that would prevent it, but there isn't much chance that a US Attorney would consider prosecuting the case.
lingnoiMay 10, 2008
So Google employees in China could be put in prison for not handing over the data and Google Employees in America could be put in prison for handing over the data. Brilliant law there..
genucheluJul 20, 2008
When will Bill come?-borat