Three senators (Amy Clobuchar, Christopher Coons, and John Cornyn) have proposed a new bill: if you see a video on, say, Youtube and then embed it onto your site, you could be charged with a felony and go to jail for up to five years if this video is later found out to be an infringement...and you had at least ten people view it on your site within a 180-day period of time! However, Youtube would NOT be charged.
Because there is no way for viewers like you and me to know an infringement occured with the original posting of that video, we would now be playing Russian Roulette whenever sharing a video with others...never knowing until it was too late that this video should never have been posted the FIRST time!
Also: if our government is so willing to keep trampling on our Constitution and the Rights and Freedoms granted to us as American citizens, is it truly so far-fetched and unrealistic as to think that our government could also be capable of posting 'speed trap' videos of their own?
Does anyone see the potential ramifications of this?
This administration desperately wants to shut us up and has proposed various means of gaining internet control over us because they know that the majority of people now get their news and information off of the 'net istead of reading newspapers and listening to radio...and the impact received from viewing just one video well surpasses the impact that could ever be made with an article using just words.
To make us afraid to share videos is a very 'good' way for them to start silencing dissention!
Thank you, Tech Dirt and Brasscheck, for letting us know what's going on behind our backs regarding the increased chipping away of our Freedom of Speech by those who 'HOPE' to 'CHANGE' our country from being a free Republic into one that dominates and controls its' citizenry.
Now...when do we stop just complaining and, instead, pick a date to peacefully march to our White House in order to inform our Military that we want these DOMESTIC ENEMIES ARRESTED AND REMOVED...IMMEDIATELY!?
The Anti-Brasscheck Act
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