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#1 2011-11-16 19:13:55

oiman
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What's going on?

Everyone on the forums is freaking out about how tommorow the internet is getting censored. I'm just wondering if this will effect scratch and why this is happenning. Can someone please give me an explanation about what's going on!?!?


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#2 2011-11-16 19:18:33

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Re: What's going on?

Someone please give me an explanation  sad


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#3 2011-11-16 20:37:35

henley
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Re: What's going on?

Why would the Internet get censored tomorrow?

How would someone even do that?


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#4 2011-11-16 20:40:15

mrkeg101
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Re: What's going on?

oiman wrote:

Everyone on the forums is freaking out about how tommorow the internet is getting censored. I'm just wondering if this will effect scratch and why this is happenning. Can someone please give me an explanation about what's going on!?!?

I don't even know what you're talking about.  neutral


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#5 2011-11-16 21:02:39

fungirl123
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Re: What's going on?

henley wrote:

Why would the Internet get censored tomorrow?

How would someone even do that?

It's the government. The are making a bill to censor the internet, and if it passes, we will won't be able to have freedom of speech on the internet.  neutral
This could result of Scratch (And more of your favorite websites) being completely censored. If you want to see more about this, go in Misc. There is a humongous rant.
Don't worry, though! This probably won't happen. They tried to do this before, and it didn't work. And if it does pass, it won't last long because the economy will get even worse.


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#6 2011-11-16 21:07:47

henley
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Re: What's going on?

Why on earth would the governmentcensor the Internet?


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#7 2011-11-16 21:11:18

Greenatic
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Re: What's going on?

henley wrote:

Why on earth would the governmentcensor the Internet?

This is the Miscellaneous post.  It's designed to censor copyrighted material, but it means that websites like Scratch would be liable in court for what its users upload, among other things.

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#8 2011-11-17 03:21:22

RedRocker227
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Re: What's going on?

yikes  is it for UK as well?


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#9 2011-11-17 06:17:07

henley
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Re: What's going on?

RedRocker227 wrote:

yikes  is it for UK as well?

tongue  No. It’s a bill from the US Constitution. They can’t control the UK.


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#10 2011-11-17 10:29:05

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Re: What's going on?

henley wrote:

RedRocker227 wrote:

yikes  is it for UK as well?

tongue  No. It’s a bill from the US Constitution. They can’t control the UK.

Phew! *breathes sigh of relief*  big_smile


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#11 2011-11-17 12:02:07

TRocket
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Re: What's going on?

RedRocker227 wrote:

henley wrote:

RedRocker227 wrote:

yikes  is it for UK as well?

tongue  No. It’s a bill from the US Constitution. They can’t control the UK.

Phew! *breathes sigh of relief*  big_smile

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#12 2011-11-17 12:22:00

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Registered: 2011-10-03
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Re: What's going on?

fungirl123 wrote:

henley wrote:

Why would the Internet get censored tomorrow?

How would someone even do that?

It's the government. The are making a bill to censor the internet, and if it passes, we will won't be able to have freedom of speech on the internet.  neutral
This could result of Scratch (And more of your favorite websites) being completely censored. If you want to see more about this, go in Misc. There is a humongous rant.
Don't worry, though! This probably won't happen. They tried to do this before, and it didn't work. And if it does pass, it won't last long because the economy will get even worse.

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#13 2011-11-17 16:50:49

TheMagician
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Registered: 2011-09-25
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Re: What's going on?

First of all, you guys don’t have an understanding of how slow the government is when they pass bills. It takes forever. So even if this does pass, there will be a BUNCH of lawyers who will go against it, and many people will revolt.

Not to mention how stupid it sounds. I know we have some bad people up in the government, but they wouldn’t do something like that.


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#14 2011-11-18 16:18:34

henley
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Re: What's going on?

TheMagician wrote:

I know we have some bad people up in the government, but they wouldn’t do something like that.

tongue  Depends on how bad they are.  tongue


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