Hello fellow anons. i hope you are enjoying the truly free medium of intellectual exchange and connectivity known as the internet, because as you are reading this, i do not know how much longer these things will apply to our internet. what am i referring to you ask? well, to put it as simply as possible...
there is a international copyright treaty being proposed and set up in secret, that will end our free internet as we know it. this treaty does a handful of horrible things...
first off, this will impose a "three strikes and your out" type of policy. where if you were to merely get "accused" three times of copyright infringement from anybody regarding anything, you and everybody using your IP would have their internet service shut off forever...
secondly, this would force ISP's around the globe to police and monitor the web at their own legal liability. so they would have to break net neutrality by spying upon their customers internet usage. and since most websites are user-generated based, ISP's would not be able to keep up with monitoring the mountains of data uploaded daily to sites like youtube, facebook, rapidshare, piratebay, twitter, etc etc....even independent blogs! so the outcome of this would be the ISP's blocking most user-generated content based sites to their customers, to save their own necks. and if not that then they would most certainly be censored and/or shut down by governments and entertainment lobbyist organizations.
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