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The following quoted text from: Fight for the Future's https://www.nocensorshipfilter.com/index.html event campaign website to stop this Bill. This bill was made by the same people who made SOPA, and pretty much just as bad.URGENT: Congress is trying to sneak through copyright censorship filtersAnyone who creates content or streams online knows that copyright laws are broken and regularly abused. We get frivolous DMCA takedown notices, accounts suspended without warning, and videos demonetized—often without transparency or recourse. Now, politicians are trying to sneak through the so-called “SMART Copyright Act,” a bill that would make all of this way worse by mandating automated censorship filters at nearly every layer of the Internet, from ISPs to streaming platforms. This won’t help artists or creators, it will just wreak havoc on free expression and line the pockets of companies like Disney and Amazon.[Fight for the Future has] heard Congress is hoping to slip this through quietly as part of a must-pass spending package. But if we make noise and show the bill is controversial, then House and Senate leadership won’t want to include it. The #NoCensorshipFilter petition delivery and day of action is TODAY, Monday, April 25. Join us by signing the petition before it is delivered Monday night!This bill brings the abuses of copyright enforcement mechanisms like the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) to a whole new level.When it comes to removing speech from the internet, copyright is already the go-to strategy for many would-be censors. Outrageous trolls abuse copyright bots for profiteering. Cops use a loophole in how filters work to keep videos of themselves off the internet. Musicians, streamers, and more are regularly deplatformed by bots with little recourse. The last thing the internet needs is for these bots to be required by law. Fight for the Future and the Electronic Frontier Foundation are teaming up to ensure this doesn’t happen.A Link to an open letter by the EFF you can sign: https://act.eff.org/action/tell-the-senate-a-filter-mandate-would-devastate-internet-creators The so-called SMART Copyright Act is a whole new tool that would effectively: Create universal automated censorship chokepoints across the internet by requiring expensive content filters that we already know don’t work and regularly silence lawful speech.Encourage surveillance backdoors in everything from Canva to Google Drive to internet service provider traffic, since it is written to apply at all layers of the internet.Mandate filtering of all content online at all levels, from Big Tech platforms like Twitch and Instagram to ISPs like Verizon and Comcast—and for any other platform that lets people speak or share online.Force these companies to compromise the safety and security of the internet with mandated use of software even if it has massive flaws, or risk being sued.Literally let Hollywood and big record labels demand whatever they want again and again to censor the internet and extract shareholder profit, supported by the revolving door of lobbyists at the copyright office.This is the internet Big Content wants, so the lawmakers they’ve bought are going to try and slip this bill in no matter how bad it is. We need to let them know that if they try to pass this law, they will have a SOPA-level fight on their hands. Help us make some noise by signing the petition now!A link to there Petition: https://actionnetwork.org/petitions/keep-our-speech-online-tell-congress-to-reject-the-filter-mandate If you want more info about this bill here's some articles about it:https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2022/04/latest-threat-independent-online-creators-filter-mandate-bill https://www.engine.is/news/category/statement-on-the-strengthening-measures-to-advance-rights-technologies-copyright-act-of-2022 https://www.authorsalliance.org/2022/03/22/authors-alliance-opposes-the-smart-copyright-act-of-2022/ Or if your willing to read threw tons of pages of ligolize here's a link to the official bill text: https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/senate-bill/3880/textFor those who don't know Fight for the Future are the same people who set up the Anti-SOPA protests that stopped that disaster in it's tracks. The Electronic Frontier Foundation is a nonprofit organization aimed at defending civil liberties related to technology and the internet. --Update: The day of action is now over [I think, the recent Elon Musk thing that happened during it seems to have distracted people] but people should still keep an eye on this bill and Fight for the Future & the EFF's blogs for updates and in case a bigger event akin to to the 1 that stopped SOPA needs to be held.

Source: the EFF We live in a world that increasingly requires us to be online. The promise of all this technology was that barriers would be lowered, allowing more people to exercise their rights—especially rights related to speech. For those who work in securing rights for others, activists and journalists, for example, this has been an invaluable change.However, that promise has been broken by the rise of a few unassailable companies. No longer does something replace Facebook the way Facebook replaced MySpace. Instead, Facebook buys Instagram and WhatsApp to prevent being replaced. And then being on Facebook stops being a choice, but a requirement for communicating with some segments of the population. It’s difficult to leave if those people are your friends and family, but it’s impossible if you are a small business who needs to reach a certain group of people.If you can’t be found by a Google search, you might as well not exist. And if your app can’t get into an Apple or Google app store, it also may as well not exist.All of this runs counter to a basic principle of the internet: you get to decide. If you learn that there’s a vulnerability in iMessage, you should be able to uninstall it. If you are an activist or journalist who could be targeted, that is a potentially lifesaving choice you need to be able to make. And if you simply want a different app to take iMessage’s place on your phone, you should get make that choice.If you choose to use the Apple store it should be because you trust its safety determinations, not simply because it ranges from difficult to impossible to do otherwise. If you choose to use Google search it should be because it gives the best service, not simply because alternatives are harder to access. And if you are on Facebook it should be because it’s the best social network, not simply because it keeps buying up its competitors and shoving everything under the “Meta” brand.Services need to go back to competing for our time by being the best, rather than the only. Our security is increased when multiple companies are working to be the safest, most secure service. Our privacy is increased when one company isn’t able to track us across our search, email, video watching, map, and health data.The Open App Markets Act would give us back control of our mobile devices by forcing companies to let us decide what is on the devices we paid hundreds of dollars to own. The ACCESS Act would allow us to choose to leave the biggest services by promoting interoperability—allowing us to stay in contact with people on the largest services without being forced to sign over our information to those services. The Platform Competition and Opportunity Act would increase oversight on acquisitions by the biggest tech companies, giving new services a fair chance to grow into real competition instead of being bought up by a giant.Join us in this day of action by emailing your representatives about these bills today. And if you have a business or organization that would like to join the day, visit antitrustday.org.

Ever since you DA admins here banned :iconirenebelserion69: for standing up against Antifa, everyone in the Conservative community has been on high alert.
Now, you've banned my good friend :iconFujin777: for exposing the SJW/Antifa agenda. That only sends out the message that Conservatives aren't welcome here and political-cartoons and artwork are ban-worthy. But what about the artwork that portrays messages of Anti-Trump, Anti-Christian, Anti-Semitism, and Anti-Americanism?  They're ban-worthy as it promotes bad behavior, and yet they still remained upon this site.
Take users who harassed :icon8TeamFriends8: by going as far as doxing her and taunting her to kill herself, and yet they don't get punished?

Censoring people who speak out against the SJW/Antifa agenda and giving in to the violent Far-Left terrorists that we've been exposing.
If this is an attempt to intimidate and silence the rest of us, you're wrong if you think we'll just cower into submiss

To all my friends and allies that are against Article 13 I have a very very bad news. Check this out!!!!!!
https://twitter.com/EFF/status/1149092990066946050
Please guys you have to see this new and also spread this to everybody quickly!!!!!!!