The new SOPA bill is yet another attempt to censor the only true medium for freedom of speech and infringe further on the civil liberties of every individual that uses the internet.
SOPA has no respect for local and national laws in various jurisdictions around the world. Coupled with the one sided extradition treaties held by the USA with countries such as the UK it could be a serious threat to civil liberties.
The example of how the USA is pursuing Gary McKinnon, an aspergers sufferer, who let's face it made a mockery of the US defence and military computer systems from an old PC in his bedroom in north London. If we were them would be offering him a job not thirty years in jail. Or Richard O'Dwyer now facing extradition for providing a link to a website readily available on Google.
While Sealand has never supported the infringement of copyright or the theft of intellectual proprietary rights it is easy to see how such a law could be misused by overzealous enforcers.
Governments hate anything they cannot control and this is less an issue of internet piracy and more of an attempt to grasp control over our freedoms of access to free information.
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governments of the world want that power. We have seen how easy it is for an annoymous group to take down whole sections of the internet and control the computer systems of government organisations. Those who rule cannot and will not allow this to happen and
they will go to any lengths to make sure it is they who hold the keys to the kingdom, not us. A new global conflict is approaching, but it will not be fought using the bomb, the missile or the bullet. The new battlefields will be the servers, the switches,
the routers and the the new weapons will be the keyboard and the mouse. I hope you're ready Sealand, because you may soon be the only safe haven left! Heads down, hatches shut, good luck!
one of your citizens out and abducted them under the guise of "their" LAW. It's the epitome of bullying. We need all the small countries of the world to tell the U.S. NO! Collect their voices and slowly build a battlement against such atrocities and eventually
the larger countries will follow suit. This is a shocking and woefully absurd statement on American priorities, during a recession no less. I would love for the itemized budget for what it's costing to get this all done. Oh, but I am sure they'll work the
flight of Richard O'Dwyer into his settlement costs. Stop blaming individuals and fix the problem. -An embarrassed U.S. citizen.
of China or Iran.
from Ely, Cambridgeshire from a secret address and if David Cameron upsets us he's in for a bloody nose. Other regional commanders are invited to contact me in order that we might present a united front. We are calling ourselves "Suffrage Over Dirty Internet
Trickery" (or S.O.D.I.T. for short). Let's go boys.