One of the many things that the Congress wants to try and pass before the end of the year and its “lame duck session” is “net neutraility” and it associated attempts to limit free speech. Leading left-wing heavyweights like Al Gore and Moby seem to want to let the FEC determine what you can do with your internet. They believe the free market does not do it well enough and think capitalism could lead to corporate censorship of content.
The Electronic Frontier Foundation one of the leading lights in the fight to retain internet freedom is upset by the law that is making its way to the vote in the next few weeks. Its called Combatting Online Infringement and Counterfeits Act (COICA) and its certainly not what the name implies.
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