Ban the internet?

Do you want your children to have the same opportunity as you did when you were growing up?

Then lis­ten up.

If you val­ue your free­dom, then you had bet­ter speak up oth­er­wise soon you might find you no longer have the right to free speech, The Sen­ate is con­sid­er­ing a bill that is just plain wrong.

You might soon no longer be able to watch video on youtube because of this bill.

The prob­lem with this law is that, it would result in cen­sor­ship with­out the right to due process as it allows the DOJ and copy­right hold­ers to obtain court orders before accused sites have had a chance to defend them­selves in court. Sites could be seized and ser­vices sus­pend­ed sim­ply based on the one-sided argu­ments prof­fered by the DOJ or copy­right hold­ers.

The world’s largest lob­by­ing orga­ni­za­tion, the US Cham­ber of Com­merce…

is sup­port­ing this and it is wrong.

along with the biggest lob­by­ists

rep­re­sent­ing the record­ing and movie indus­try, have ramped up their efforts to get PROTECT IP approved as quick­ly as pos­si­ble.

Will you sup­port our work by becom­ing a month­ly Demand Progress sus­tain­er?  Our small, ded­i­cat­ed, (under-paid) staff is entire­ly mem­ber-sup­port­ed.  (You can can­cel your dona­tions at any time.)

Yes! I’ll become a Demand Progress sus­tain­er today.
I can’t, but I’ll click here to chip in $5 or $10 today so you can keep fight­ing the Inter­net Black­list Bill and pro­tect­ing civ­il lib­er­ties.
But now the good news: Why is the Cham­ber hav­ing to go to such great lengths to ram their bill through Con­gress?  It’s because of Demand Progress mem­bers like you.  More from Techdirt:

This is the first stage of the endgame to get the law passed.  To be hon­est, I’m sur­prised they’ve even had to go this far, because from the begin­ning it looked like they had the easy sup­port.  The fact that they felt the need to break out this lit­tle stunt shows that the oppo­si­tion to PROTECT IP has actu­al­ly drummed up enough noise that some politi­cians are con­cerned about the very real unin­tend­ed con­se­quences of the law.

Will you sup­port our work by becom­ing a month­ly Demand Progress sus­tain­er?

Yes! I’ll become a Demand Progress sus­tain­er today.
I can’t, but I’ll click here to chip in $5 or $10 today so you can keep fight­ing the Inter­net Black­list Bill and pro­tect­ing civ­il lib­er­ties.
Thanks so much for your con­tin­ued sup­port.

–David, Mor­gan, Aaron, and the Demand Progress team.