Internet blacklist bill

[Johnneylee Rollins]

Why is it that none of my threads, usually relevant but not always,
get instantly jumped on by stupid people who can't read and/or trolls?
I swear, some of you need to stop being so high-strung. Whiny kids
these days. :(

(Bitch about my top-posting, at least that one's a legitimate one to
shoot your mouth/fingers off about.)

~SpaceGhost

On Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 12:02 AM, Michael Haney <thezorch at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 2:49 AM, Nils Kassube <kassube at gmx.net> wrote:
>> Robert Holtzman wrote:
>>> On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 08:21:08PM +0200, Nils Kassube wrote:
>>> > Johnneylee Rollins wrote:
>>> > > Then,
>>> > > please forward this email to your friends.
>>> >
>>> > Please don't send chain letters about your local issues to
>>> > international mailing lists. Thanks.
>>>
>>> Do you think this doesn't have international implications?
>>
>> No, it doesn't. It is about a campaigne to sign a petition "to your
>> local chamber". To me that is obviously for U.S. citicens only. The bill
>> mentioned in the mail may have international implications, but the
>> purpose of that mail is not to tell people abroad about the bill or
>> those international implications. It is a chain letter instead which is
>> as valuable as spam. Now, if you have some real information about that
>> bill, it might be interesting even for people on the other side of the
>> pond. And no, links in chain letters don't count as real information
>> IMHO.
>>
>
> You're bitching just to bitch.  If there were a similar issue going on
> in your country you'd be posting it here too so STFU.
>
> This is a big deal.  Laws like this can and have been abused by other
> countries.  They say its to block stuff like child porn but they'll
> also block sites that express opposing political views.  This doesn't
> just happen in oppressive regimes like Iran, but in democratic
> countries that are or are trying to filter the Internet.
>
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