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[ NNSquad ] Tech Giants Form Internet-Freedom Lobby to Counter MPAA, RIAA Clout
Tech Giants Form Internet-Freedom Lobby to Counter MPAA, RIAA Clout
http://j.mp/Qn7x83 (Wired)
"The Internet Association, backed by behemoths Amazon, Google, Facebook
and others - 14 groups in all - is focused on internet freedom -
something that's easy in principle and hard when it comes to details.
As a yardstick of what this group's philosophy is, its president said
that had the group been around earlier this year, it would have
lobbied against the Stop Online Privacy Act. Among other things, the
measure would have required ISPs to prevent Americans from visiting
piracy blacklisted sites by altering the system known as DNS that
turns site names like Google.com into IP addresses such as
174.35.23.56. Instead, for the blacklisted sites, ISPs would have to
lie to their customers and tell their browsers that the site doesn't
exist."
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--Lauren--
Lauren Weinstein (lauren@vortex.com): http://www.vortex.com/lauren
Co-Founder: People For Internet Responsibility: http://www.pfir.org/pfir-info
Founder:
- Network Neutrality Squad: http://www.nnsquad.org
- PRIVACY Forum: http://www.vortex.com/privacy-info
- Data Wisdom Explorers League: http://www.dwel.org
- Global Coalition for Transparent Internet Performance: http://www.gctip.org
Member: ACM Committee on Computers and Public Policy
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