I've heard about the Intellectual Property bill lately, and needless to say, it scares the shit out of me.
Last year, there was a proposed law that would've forbidden schools and libraries from letting computer users link to social networking sites. I can confirm the panic that came out of that proposal; I was still in high school when that was going on, and the computers at both my school and the public library decided to get ahead and block all social networking sites (and then some), including MySpace, Facebook, YSI, Blogger, etc. LJ and GJ only escaped the blocks because they're virtually unknown in my hometown. Kids found proxy servers to get around the blocks, which was rather wonderful.
Terrified me out of my mind, that did.
And all the recent wank in fandom, putting us in the spotlight? Makes me really uneasy.
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I've heard about the Intellectual Property bill lately, and needless to say, it scares the shit out of me.
Last year, there was a proposed law that would've forbidden schools and libraries from letting computer users link to social networking sites. I can confirm the panic that came out of that proposal; I was still in high school when that was going on, and the computers at both my school and the public library decided to get ahead and block all social networking sites (and then some), including MySpace, Facebook, YSI, Blogger, etc. LJ and GJ only escaped the blocks because they're virtually unknown in my hometown. Kids found proxy servers to get around the blocks, which was rather wonderful.
Terrified me out of my mind, that did.
And all the recent wank in fandom, putting us in the spotlight? Makes me really uneasy.
Here's to pushing back, yeah?