Inevitable, so start planning now

[scarfman]

There's already another internet "security" bill like SOPA on the table, from the same sponsor. This one's supposed cause is online child pornography. It requires ISPs to track their clients' usage and to surrender the information at demand without a warrant.

One of these days one of these bills is going to slip through and get passed. What I'd like to see done about it - that I don't have the time or resources to do - is this:

For each of these bills as it's being processed, someone (e.g., the ACLU?) needs to compile a list of potential online violations amongst the corporations/government agencies that are supporting the bill. I mean, a plausible argument that could get the supporter's website suspended. E.g., if the bill's SOPA, a big movie studio or record company with material on their website that genuinely plausibly violates the copyright of, for the sake of argument, a webcartoonist. Prepatory enlistment of friendlies in appropriate law enforcement agencies might be required to pull this off too. Then, when one of these bills gets passed, the first incidence of enforcement needs to be against one of the corporate supporters of the bill.

But I don't know how to pull this off, or to whom to suggest it.

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[bewarethespork.livejournal.com]

That is actually a really good idea, and if I had even the slightest idea how to go about implementing it I would be on it like sprinkles on a fudge sundae.