Ketchup is Red

It is censorship when you give corporations and government an off switch with no due process. It is also censorship when you give companies the ability to break the fundamental name resolution system of the Internet. It is already happening domestically, (see: http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2011/12/wyden-domain-seizure/) and, for the record, will not stop true, large-scale piracy at all. Just like corporations wanted to stop the Xerox copy machine, the VCR, and the ability to make a copy of your purchased music to store on your computer, they are also using the heavy hand of industry pre-written legislation in order to block more “illegal content”. In reality, the point of this legislation is to avoid having to grow and adapt an entrenched business model. The entertainment industry wants to sell horse buggies, when the horseless carriage is already in the hands of citizens. There are logical ways to address the issue of copyright, but when the legislators want to dismiss Internet experts as “nerds” without even attempting to understand the impact of these laws, then we have a problem. (see: http://motherboard.vice.com/2011/12/16/dear-congress-it-s-no-longer-ok-to-not-know-how-the-internet-works)