Anonymous’ attack on Chamber of Commerce website doesn’t make a dent

[Playinghardball]

Source: Raw Story
By Stephen C. Webster

An effort by protest group "Anonymous" to rally Internet users into helping them shut down the U.S. Chamber of Commerce website fell short Monday night as the site remained online.

Unnamed members of the group, which has come to be defined by its online activities, had issued a call to digital arms on Sunday, urging supporters to join a distributed network that would stage something of an electronic sit-in on the Chamber's servers.

It was all part of a protest against Sen. Patrick Leahy's (D-VT) Preventing Real Online Threats to Economic Creativity and Theft of Intellectual Property Act -- or "PROTECT IP" (PDF) for short.

The bill would give U.S. officials the power to order search engines and Internet service providers to block websites or other online content that authorities believe to be serving illegal materials. The legislative text is so broad, Internet freedom advocates claim it could even be used to shut down websites that link to other websites that authorities claim to be carrying out infringing activities.

More at: http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2011/05/24/anonymous-attack-on-chamber-of-commerce-website-doesnt-make-a-dent/

[Electric Monk]

1. It could be used to shut down Google. The bill is a total piece of shit.

nt

[RandomThoughts]

3. Laws with huge prosecution discrecion

are to move justice to targeted justice, so it can be used for any reason, like defending some 'group' or some ideology.

Sounds like more reverse justice, if it is that broadly written.

The final step of a broad law for targeted justice is. Anything I say is illegal is illegal, and total dictatorial rule.

Intermediate stages make many things illegal that many people do, then only pursue those that infringe in some area not defined by the law itself, allowing it to mean anything an individual prosecutor wants.

It moves power to the Unitarian executive. And Executive is always the easiest to form a dictatorship with.

[Curmudgeoness]

2. And what is the definition of illegal materials? Damn, and I love DU.

I am sure they could find a way to block me from getting here if they stretch far enough.

And who is this Leahy? I don't know enough about him. D-VT??? I am surprised.