Comments on: Anti-Piracy Group Wants To Ban You From Talking About Usenet

By: Global Geek News Podcast #48 | Global Geek News

Global Geek News Podcast #48 | Global Geek News — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 05:18:40 +0000

[...] Anti-piracy group wants to ban you from talking about Usenet [...]

By: Annie Moose

Annie Moose — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 02:45:28 +0000

Oh, this is just absurd! What’s next, we won’t be able to say anything against the government? Maybe we won’t be able to protest? Maybe we should outright ban religion, personal tastes, and any opinions whatsoever, while we’re at it! I hate to be the “doom is coming” type, because I’ve always seen those people as wacko doomsayers, but… the things I’ve seen and heard happening over the past few months, I’m starting to wonder if maybe the wackos aren’t right.

I know BREIN is Dutch, not American, but the fact that a group in a supposedly “free” country can even realistically suggest this scares me.

By: Trelew

Trelew — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 21:38:03 +0000

Read this article and got a shiver up my spine…this is amounts to ridding the world of free speech. Who needs Hitler & the SS, or Bin Laden & the Taliban, we have Big Business.

Oh no, we can’t have any kind of conversation that piss off some corporate CEO. We must believe everything that the corporate powers-that-be spoon feed us through the media without question or we will be sued beyond our capacity to pay and hoisted up in effigy for all to see their abuse of power.

Now don’t come down to hard on the corporate stooges like neo styles and Reasoned Mind. They are probably corporate PR guys paid to troll sites like this to spread the corporate propaganda.

Unfortunately this issue is only the symptom. The real disease is corruption of our governments by corporations. We need to ban corporate lobbyist from the halls of government, hold our politicians and government bureaucrats accountable for the things they do; and remind them that they are there to watch out for the welfare of the people, not corporate welfare.

By: moot#faggot

moot#faggot — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 16:54:36 +0000

Ya’ll be feedin’ the troll.

I wonder how many people are actually using the Reasoned Mind name.

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By: Ninja

Ninja — Sun, 13 Dec 2009 20:58:40 +0000

You are kidding me… I’m completely shocked…

By: It's ME

It's ME — Sun, 13 Dec 2009 20:27:13 +0000

@Brain

No.. BREIN will not win. They tried it on with a friend of mine for hosting a home forum for a P2P application, where discussions regarding copyright material is removed and frowned upon. BREIN backed down and he was awarded damages which were donated to charity.

By: The Dude

The Dude — Sun, 13 Dec 2009 14:37:18 +0000

George Orwell is either laughing his ass off and saying “told you so”… or he is spinning in his grave, mortified (sic) that his nightmares have become reality.

Double Plus Ungood.

By: irukandji

irukandji — Sun, 13 Dec 2009 13:38:45 +0000

How would they stop anyone from discussing something exactly? By making it illegal? Yeah, I know that’s how they got rid of all crack, heroin, and murder, but with stego anything is possible.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sun, 13 Dec 2009 13:25:27 +0000

Since when was FTD ‘underground’? I’m from the Netherlands and me and all my friends use it, and gladly tell others about it, no secretive stuff going on. Slightly exaggerated article there…