Wikipedia's SOPA box

[Agita]

Also: Students being paid to support ACTA

For reference, that recruitment notice talks about hiring "extras for a photo session".

[bhu]

Any hope CISPA will go down in the Senate?

[skydragonknight]

Any hope CISPA will go down in the Senate?

Unlikely. There was a revision to limit the use of information to very specific things and that was enough to win House Dems (less than 10 voted against). So unless things are vastly different for Senate Dems, it should pass save for a veto.

[sirpercival]

The "funny" thing is that those "very specific things" are so open-ended as to be completely non-restrictive.

[skydragonknight]

Found the specific items it can be used for (and some of them are quite vague):

“...the data can only be used for: 1) cybersecurity; 2) investigation and prosecution of cybersecurity crimes; 3) protection of individuals from the danger of death or physical injury; 4) protection of minors from physical or psychological* harm; and 5) protection of the national security* of the United States.”

First three are specific enough that my biggest fear is just general government incompetence, but 4 and 5 can be so broadly interpreted it's not even funny.

[sirpercival]

The 2nd one is a big one though.  Are "cybersecurity crimes" defined?  Investigation of them seems extremely open-ended.

[JohnnyMayHymn]

Any hope CISPA will go down in the Senate?

Unlikely. There was a revision to limit the use of information to very specific things and that was enough to win House Dems (less than 10 voted against). So unless things are vastly different for Senate Dems, it should pass save for a veto.

I seriously doubt a veto will take place, wouldn't be surprised to see threats of a veto then the signing on a holiday weekend.

[Prime32]

Impressive.

[brujon]

Anyone else having trouble accessing piratebay.org? i've only been able to access it through one of their proxies, but not the .se or .org links.

[Halinn]

http://torrentfreak.com/pirate-bay-under-ddos-attack-from-unknown-enemy-120516/

[Monotremeancer]

Go RIAA!

[dman11235]

The RIAA is now officially a caricature of itself.

[veekie]

And there goes TVTropes

[RedWarlock]

And there goes TVTropes

Really? You see that as worth saying 'and there goes..'? This is pretty minor.

[veekie]

Minor yes. But it still happens on the small scale, even if the big ones are on break.

[dman11235]

Not only that, this has nothing to do with the SOPA and related instances.  I can't see anything at all wrong with what they're doing.  Just taking out the pornography and pedophilia.  They made it clear that they weren't getting rid of explicit material or NSFW material, just the porn and sexualizing of underage people.  Save the outrage until after the people in charge of the purge and stuff go overboard, purging what should actually be safe by those criteria.  I can't see anything wrong with that new policy.  The stuff about more strict banning?  Maybe, but that will die down after a bit, without getting lax on the articles.  They want to make sure people get where that site is going (which is actually back to where it began, so....)

[Agita]

Veekie's beef here is that they're already pretty much going overboard with the policy itself. Perfectly good articles on series that happen to have lots of fanservice get deleted under the banner of "no porn", nevermind whether they have a worthwhile plot or not. The frequent use of the term "paedoshit" more or less tells you how much professionalism and rationality is involved here. I can get behind cleaning the site up and keeping a leash on excessive discussion of porn in comments, examples, and the like, but in this manifesto they basically outright tell you to your face that they're forcing "sex under 18 is ebul" down everyone else's throats.

[RedWarlock]

Veekie's beef here is that they're already pretty much going overboard with the policy itself. Perfectly good articles on series that happen to have lots of fanservice get deleted under the banner of "no porn", nevermind whether they have a worthwhile plot or not. The frequent use of the term "paedoshit" more or less tells you how much professionalism and rationality is involved here. I can get behind cleaning the site up and keeping a leash on excessive discussion of porn in comments, examples, and the like, but in this manifesto they basically outright tell you to your face that they're forcing "sex under 18 is ebul" down everyone else's throats.

No, actually, I read the full description of the new policy, and that's pretty much NOT what they're doing. They're setting up a council to evaluate maturely all the material that is flagged, allowing appeals processes, and using criteria that are VERY rational, considering how subjective the label 'porn' is. 'Paedoshit' is just as informal as they've EVER been, no change there.

[Prime32]

There was a thread on this at GitP a while back.

I was upset, but most of the damage came from overzealous editors just after it was announced (eg. the page on Fate/stay night being deleted); most of that's been repaired now.

One of the examples of changes was "Tropes like Panty Shot and Fetish Fuel no longer have long lists of examples". Also you can't link to Danbooru any more, but I'm not sure if that was connected to this or not.

[veekie]

Its really a tempest in a teacup, I just got annoyed because I was looking up a couple of series pages that was there before, and weren't anymore.