>>398304
Please, enlighten us, because I have no idea.
I'm bored...

>>398308
PROTECT-IP is pretty much written to shut down 4chan and its getting fasttracked into becoming law. Anonymous protests are strange enough to get the media attention those behind the bill are doing everything they can to avoid, and anonymous should be outside capital hill right now protesting, but it can't, because without 4chan, it has no cohesion.

Thus, DDoS 4chan till its too late for anonymous to organize.

the jews?

jooblox

>>399199
notsureifserious.tif

You know that that bill applies to many more websites than 4chan, right? It'd basically shut down Youtube, Twitter, Tumblr, and possibly even Facebook. It's essentially censoring anything that could include copyrighted material.

>>399235
I'm not saying it was written specifically to kill 4chan, I'm saying keeping anonymous out of the game makes a lot of sense if you're trying to keep something like this quiet.

To compare, the occupy protests are just a bunch of retarded hipsters protesting corporations while driving cars, using laptops, wearing ridiculously expensive faux-vintage clothes, drinking ridiculously expensive coffee, eating ridiculously expensive organic food, all produced by the corporations they're protesting. They're so ridiculous and hypocritical they're barely getting a mention.

Anonymous protests, to the media, are surreal block parties organized to raise awareness about a specific issue. Something they always succeed at doing.

Anonymous should be out in front of capital hill right now. But "someone" kept the site on lockdown with a DDoS just as the PROTECT-IP issue was heating up.

Anyone who thinks this bill will pass and remain in the long run is insane.
Imagine the riots! Let's hope it does!

>>399310
Anonymous =/= 4chan..

>>399339
you can't be serious... wow...

>>399310
I'm sorry, now I'm on the verge of chuckling.
>Occupy barely being noticed in the media
>Implying Anonymous is more noticed and restricted to 4chan

I don't know about you, but where I am, Occupy is mostly unemployed middle aged people who have lost their jobs and sometimes homes and have basically gotten the short end of the stick over and over. While I'm sure there are hipsters elsewhere, not all of the protesters are.

>>399328
Insanely rich. As it's got bipartisan support while being pushed through by the most powerful lobbying forces on the planet.

>>398304
The pic doesn't show a DDOS, it shows the result of government passing the SOPA, and that (mis)used for things like suppressing knowledge of protests.

>>399388
Seriously, honesty, just get the fuck out.

>>399375
4chan is where anonymous would need to cull 90% of the people necessary for a big protest.

>>399478
Again, not restricted to 4chan. In the past, a lot of people that participated were from /b/, but 4chan =/= /b/, and /b/ is pretty much almost entirely stupid 14 year olds and trolls now, and has been for a while. Anonymous and 4chan are separate and distinct. 4chan =/= Anonymous.

>>399549
Wow, its almost like that has something to do with that post.

>>399549
you are quite the cunning troll.
seriously though, i don't think the united states has a very bright future if the bill goes through, which if the forces that be will it to be so, this will happen, if not soon, then eventually as they won't stop trying.
wallstreet got pissed about the protests and realize it might lead to something big, and now we see this bill but a few months after the protests started. it's not much of a coincidence until you realize the last time anyone talked about this kind of stuff was in 2001, and that was when the internet was mostly a habshab of ISP's growing wildly and thousands of new, albeit primitive, webpages springing up. industry professionals were afraid it was growing too fast and the industry couldn't keep up, but then fiber optics got cheaper and people quit their bitchin.
back on subject, if free speech online goes, the entire internet will eventually go. nobody will use it and ISP's will go bankrupt or get bought up and used for private use by companies.
and once we lose free speech, there won't be much keeping corporations from doing what they want. they already control the media, congress, and the courts. the masses forget fastest and if the constant awareness of our social problems the internet provides drops off the face of the earth, soon everyone will be buying into the mainstream media which is run by corporations. nobody will know better than what the news says. and the laws will be passed on the terms of right wing politicians, and the litigation against companies will be all but haltered when large verdicts can't get pass the supreme court anymore. they're covering all bases and now we're fucked.

>>399981
not to mention, that if this happens and politics and the american vote become a domain of the corporations, we won't have a democracy anymore. we'll have a dictatorship. you vote for who the big boys want you to vote for and no one else.

>>399310
>>399981
>not reddit.
>m00t bl0xxxxxxx

>>400017
fuck off you fucking dick eating cuntbag

>>399981
Almost. There have been a series of bills (net neutrality, COICA) spearheaded by the cable ISPs designed to give them the ability to turn the internet into the deformed lovechild of cable television and the internet. Where they control all content.

Since cable ISPs have government mandated monopolies, their customers would have no choice but to pay out the ass for facebook and email (and extra for anything else) or go without the internet. Since the average internet user would have no problem with this, the cable ISPs would reap MASSIVE profits which they'd use to buy lobbyists to block verizon and other fiber-only ISPs from expanding into their territory.

Never forget, that even if these bills go through and pretty much all of the internet vanishes, so long as facebook remains, most people won't care.

>>400013
I don't think you know what a troll is. Also, just want you to know that the US is not a democracy, never has been and never will be. It's a republic. Aside from that, as much as things would really suck ass if those bills were to pass (and honestly, you're not the first person to bring it up), and I think that it's great you're against them, you're against them for entirely wrong and pants on head retarded reasons that make you sound like you have a collection of tinfoil hats.

>>400128
You seem to be doing everything you can to post nothing but absolute irrelevancy.

>>400171
You seem to be doing everything you can to sound like an analpained pseudo-intellectual. DDOS was caused by bored idiots and has nothing to do with PROTECT-IP or SOPA. You sound like an idiot conspiracy theorist. Have a nice day.

>>400269
This is weapon's grade trolling folks. Usually reserved for the government.

Anonymous isn't a 4chan only fenomenon, it's it's own thing and it has a separate site now.

>>399310
Okay, sure, the Occupy protesters use those things. Because corporation's products are a LEGITIMATE means to gain profit. What they're protesting are the ILLEGITIMATE gains that corporations have gotten, such as lobbying to change the government in their favor.

This is what really fucking sickens me about most of america, is that they just don't understand what the Occupy protesters are TRULY up in arms about.

moot changes the world in a couple of keystrokes.

>>399235
>It'd basically shut down Youtube, Twitter, Tumblr, and possibly even Facebook.

how can we get this law passed immediately?

>>400394
The point is they could be protesting with their wallets. Going off the grid, living like hippies, etc. Instead, they're supporting the corporations further by occupying cities and bitching because they took out $100,000 in student loans to pay for their degrees in art history.

>>400450
But where will I get my cat videos?

>>400450
oh, don't worry, 4chan and every filehosting website would go too.

Hell, pretty much any site that allows user posts would be gone.

>>400473
But being hippies is yet another thing the Occupy protesters are being accused of. People say "get a job!" when we're in a recession and there just aren't enough jobs for everyone.

>>400509
Irrelevant. They're unemployed because they won't take jobs not in their field. Which are usually completely devoid of jobs.

>>400509
They're not being called hippies, they're being called retards for blowing tens of thousands of dollars in loans on completely unmarketable higher education degrees.

If they were hippies, they wouldn't need jobs, as they'd be supporting themselves outside of the system, man.

This isn't what we meant when we said we wanted new banners moot.

>>399310

Get a load of this guy. Been to any of the occupy sites?

>>399235
>Implying it won't be selectively enforced and just used to shut down sites the authorities don't like while totally ignoring facebook and youtube

>>400509

Its not that there aren't any jobs, its that people lack the qualifications for those jobs. All of the jobs I see online require a bachelors in finance, marketing, a license of some sort, and always experience. So if you don't have those, then of course it's going to be tough to find a job

>>400644
>implying ISPs won't decide to block pretty much everything to "help out," as the bill allows them to do pretty much whatever they want to whatever site they want.