SIGN THIS PETITION Or AT LEAST rEBLOG AND LET OTHErS KNOW!!
I AM NOT SHITTING WITH YOU GUYS. THIS SHIT IS PISSING ME OFF ALREADY. FUCKING SIGN THIS SHIT OR I’LL MAKE SURE I WALK TO MY SERVICE PROVIDER AND SHOTGUN HIM IN THE ANUS IF MY MOTHERFUCKING INTERNET GOES OFF. SOPA AND CISPA HAS BEEN ON MY NERVES TO THE POINT I’M RAGING ABOUT THESE BEING BROUGHT UP AND VALUABLE RESOURCES ARE BEING USED. SIGN THIS SHIT GODDAMMIT
please spread this like wildfire guys im begging you we still need over 90,000 signatures if tumblr can reblog a post 500,000 times for a fluffy chicken, we can reblog this 90,000 times in snap. please please please reblog this, and thank you so much
ALRIGHT YOU SHITS DON’T SEEM TO UNDERSTAND THE MAGNITUDE OF THIS FUCKERY
THEY ARE TRYING TO REMOVE YOUR INTERNET FREEDOM
SEE THAT REACTION GIF FOLDER? YOU’LL GET A LONGER SENTENCE THAN A RAPIST IF THEY FIND THAT
SIGN THIS SHIT OR JUST FUCKING TURN YOURSELF IN BECAUSE THIS IS IMPORTANT
Okay, up there is a lot of insult to level on people who don’t necessarily follow information policy news. Let me explain.
You may have heard that the major US internet service providers (ISPs including Comcast, Verizon, AT&T, Time Warner and Cablevision) are rolling out a Copyright Alert System this week. The CAS is problematic less for what it currently does (mostly it flags your P2P torrenting activity and sends you annoying messages to tell you not to pirate stuff) than for what it has the potential to do.
This software was put into place by the major ISPs at the behest of the MIAA and MPAA—remember those guys who spent several years suing 12 year olds for hundreds of thousands of dollars for downloading music? This is their latest attempt to exert undue control over their material by monitoring and controlling the activities of consumers.
The CAS exists under corporate oversight. This is NOT a government program. It was implemented solely by corporations and private interests. It therefore is not subject to many censorship laws, and furthermore we don’t currently have a system of laws governing the internet that can effectively manage a program like this. The FCC was robbed of its power to monitor things like this by Congress several years back, so currently there is also no government body able to provide oversight and recourse in the case of abuse.
And you can bet, the way this bastards do business, that if they get away with this, they’ll expand their activities. Sooner or later, they will most likely also start targeting services like Megaupload, and even Dropbox, because these are services whose methods make it possible for people to use them to share pirated files.
The software the CAS uses (called a ‘packet sniffer’) has the capacity to look at each piece of data that travels across your network, to track and record the specifics of your internet traffic—what data you’re sending, who you’re sending it to, where you’re sending it from, as well as what data you’re receiving—and speed it, slow it, filter it, or block it entirely. It has the potential to be used as a tool for corporate favoritism (if Verizon doesn’t like Netflix, they could slow down all Netflix traffic) as well as for these corporations to violate your privacy. What’s more, any data that gets recorded is data that the government can subpoena, or in some cases (thank you, Patriot Act) may even be able to seize without judicial oversight.
I for one would like to see the CAS killed dead. If you agree with me, here is your petition.
Signing this petition DOES MATTER, because Congress has the power to restore oversight powers to the FCC, or even pass legislation regulating programs like the CAS, and they still have to listen to the voters when we shout “FUCK NO.”
Stop CAS (Copyright Alert System)