US Government Begins Global Internet Censorship Without Court Orders

[Nemesis]

wait, they're stopping illegal activity, and people are upset?

[Fluffy Frufflebottoms]

wait, they're stopping illegal activity, and people are upset?

No, people are upset that it can be done with minimal, if any, oversight by the courts.

[DJ_MikeyRevile]

No, people are upset that it can be done with minimal, if any, oversight by the courts.

so there stopping people from criminal activity.. and people are upset.

[Fluffy Frufflebottoms]

so there stopping people from criminal activity.. and people are upset.

No. They're middle-men ensuring that private interest organisations can circumvent the courts. That's why people are upset. These organisations have lobbied the legislature to avoid having to deal with a judiciary system that often found their methods to be unlawful. Some of these sites are outlets for people committing felony copyright infringement, but others are not. Torrenting, for example, is not a crime. It's a tort handled as a civil matter.

[acolyte_to_jippity]

so there stopping people from criminal activity.. and people are upset.

i personally am upset. it's not the stopping criminal activity, but its the fact that they can o this for any reason whatsoever. plus, some of the sites were perfectly legal, like torrent-finder.

[Tickle Me Emo]

wait, they're stopping illegal activity, and people are upset?

so there stopping people from criminal activity.. and people are upset.

If that's really all you see in this issue, you're retarded. I'm too tired to go into detail right now, but that's really all the time you deserve anyways.

[Christmas]

i personally am upset. it's not the stopping criminal activity, but its the fact that they can o this for any reason whatsoever. plus, some of the sites were perfectly legal, like torrent-finder.

Don't torrent sites provide links to copyrighted content?

[Jeimuzu]

If that's really all you see in this issue, you're retarded. I'm too tired to go into detail right now, but that's really all the time you deserve anyways.

I give you +1 my good sir.

[Fluffy Frufflebottoms]

Don't torrent sites provide links to copyrighted content?

Nothing that a torrent site provides as part of serving torrents is copyrighted. Torrent-Finder itself merely links to these sites. It's sorta like shutting down Google for indexing sites that serve content that in some capacity could be used to commit civil offenses.

[acolyte_to_jippity]

Don't torrent sites provide links to copyrighted content?

technically, torrents are just specially formatted text files that a tracker client interprets as instructions for where to go and connect to the actual torrent network. there is no copyright material in torrents.