Thank you Euro's

It's been a tough ride in the people vs government/big corporations war. The people suffered a huge loss when the NDAA got passed.
It passed with nary a protest and I'd still say most people are unaware the politicians took an enormous diarrhea shit all over the constitution, passing a law that allows U.S. citizens to be detained indefinitely on the accusation of being involved with Al Quida or the Taliban.

Very much to my surprise SOPA, the copyright bill which would have given companies the right to block domain names of web sites they felt were engaging in or enabling copyright infringement, garnered HUGE opposition from both individuals and large technology companies like google that the bill wound up getting pulled. For now.

Another incredibly nasty piece of work ACTA also seemed to pass with little protest. This is not surprising since it was negotiated in secret.

There is, however, a dim hope. In Europe, at least people are waking up.

"Massive demonstrations against the draconian anti-piracy treaty ACTA are spanning four continents, with protests in more than 200 European cities alone. Hundreds of thousands of people are taking to the streets to prevent their countries and the European Parliament from putting the free Internet at risk by ratifying ACTA"

So from Monkey 2 U thanks Euros. Thank you for finally bringing MUCH needed attention to a rotten trade agreement which has slithered like a poisonous snake through the garden of freedom largely unseen and unopposed. Thank you for shining a light on the cockroaches in governments that have supported this.

  Te saluto.

Are you FUCKING KIDDING ME!!!?

The internet community gave a collective sigh of relief when SOPA died. Well those sighs may have been too soon.

While there is not enough info yet there is a possibility SOPA may yet rise from the grave under a different name, thanks to Sen Maj leader Harry Reed.

The rebuttal to push Internet-regulating legislation has transformed into a new cybersecurity bill. The particulars of the latest attempt by senators to censor the Internet have not been disclosed to the public.

However some leaks suggest that the bill will grant the authority to crack down on the Internet to the executive branch of power, namely the White House. It looks highly possible taking into consideration that the legislation has to come out of the Senate Homeland Security and Government Affairs Committee, chaired by Connecticut Independent Sen. Joe Lieberman.

The article goes on to explain that Lieberman previously co sponsored the kill switch bill that would have given the president the ability to shut down the internet.

I suspect that by calling this a "security" rather than a copyright bill the scums in congress hope to slip it by the sleeping public the same way they did with the NDAA. Monkey will be watching this one...