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Possible Irish SOPA Law? :/
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Response from Martin Ferris, gowan the shinners
For immediate release, Wednesday, January 25
Ferris calls for full debate and vote on internet legislation
The Sinn Féin Spokesperson on Communications, Martin Ferris TD has called on the Government to have a full debate in the Dáil on measures governing access to the internet. He was responding to an interview with the Minister responsible Seán Sherlock yesterday which Deputy Ferris said leaves many questions to be answered regarding the implications of the legislation.
Deputy Ferris said: “While the Minister is claiming that he needs to act in order to reflect both a recent Court judgement and two EU directives, he appears to be pretty vague regarding the implications of what he is proposing. Experts in the field are taking a diametrically opposed view to that of the Minister.
“There is understandable fear among both commercial and private users of the internet that this will leave the door open to actions that would severely restrict access to information if copyright holders can secure orders preventing it being made available.
“That would not only represent a significant attack on individual freedom but also a threat to a healthy sector of the Irish economy which has attracted major international players to locate here.
“In the interests of teasing all of this out I am calling on the Government to facilitate a debate and to present legislation that will require approval by the Oireachtas prior to any enactment. That would allow a full debate with meaningful inputs from all interested parties.”0 -
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TJ knows who Anonymous are and why they're doing what they're doing.
His article is not questioning their intent or motives but whether or not the attacks will damage the cause.
He knows the nuances of the situation, he's one of the founders of the "Stop SOPA Ireland" movement. He probably felt your comment was not directly relevant to the topic at hand hence the deletion.
What?
Believe it or not I do have a lot of respect to Mr.TJ McIntyre (that's why I was a bit shocked with this action as his website was the last place I expected this comment to be removed and I did placed it in a few other places that are much less orientated on defending freedom of speech)
A) it was 100% directly relevant as it was created in response to his article and it was way more relevant and constructive then all the "well said" comments
His article is speculating on how those "attacks" are going to be used by media and politicians, "making it easier for the music industry to spin critics as criminals, and giving unsympathetic politicians an easy, crowd pleasing reason to ignore the campaign. If the headlines shift from "New law threatens civil liberties" to "Hackers attack Irish government websites" then we will be on the back foot, jeopardising what's been achieved to date."
I agree,
My point was that if you don't want that to happen you have to educate people and media that those guys are not hackers. Ddos attack has so much to do with hacking as adding 2 numbers in a calculator with programming
And this should be very clear to everyone that each and every one of you can become a 'hacktivist' or whichever way press is going to call it, after spending 10 minutes on google.
Those attacks will happen anyway so instead of crying over the fact that they might have a negative impact on the case, maybe, he should start wondering how to turn it back around. In my opinion making a statement that those people are bad and we don't want to have anything to do with their actions will only make things worst. Instead you can make sure that public do know the truth about anonymous movement so they can understand who and why is creating this minor disruption on the website that no one really visits anyway
. Another important thing to say is that no harm is being done to anyone except of a few network administrators who might end up with a few extra gray hairs by the end of the week. 0 -
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