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Discussion => Silk Road discussion => Topic started by: derpalina on November 21, 2011, 11:45 pm

Title: Could SOPA impact Bitcoin and/or SilkRoad?
Post by: derpalina on November 21, 2011, 11:45 pm
Anybody know? ???
Title: Re: Could SOPA impact Bitcoin and/or SilkRoad?
Post by: oppyate on November 22, 2011, 01:52 am
What is SOPA? In Spanish I think it means Soup?
Title: Re: Could SOPA impact Bitcoin and/or SilkRoad?
Post by: Steelydust on November 22, 2011, 02:12 am
Stop Online Piracy Act.

Yes, it absolutely could effect TOR and The Silk Road, but maybe not directly. With each new law that gets passed which takes a small bit of freedom or liberty from the people, we get closer and closer to having our privacy completely taken away. It won't happen fast. There won't be just one law that comes out and fucks up the entire internet, it will happen slowly. First it starts with "stopping terrorism", which there are already laws that have passed that makes internet and phone providers give any information that the police wants about a customer (Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act.)  Now they're stopping the filming of police, saying it breaks "wiretapping laws." Then they start attacking piracy. What's after that? Probably something along the lines of "Stop Internet Child Pornography Act", which would give good grounds to fuck TOR up.

Then it just gets worse and worse, and we end up like North Korea, and the only websites we're allowed to visit is Government propaganda websites. It's called "creeping normalcy." 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creeping_normalcy

Enjoy Silk Road while it lasts. These times will be looked at one day with nostalgia, the good old days. It can't last forever, but it's making history.
Title: Re: Could SOPA impact Bitcoin and/or SilkRoad?
Post by: Rook on November 22, 2011, 02:15 am
Stop Online Piracy Act.

No, it would have no effect on bitcoin or SR, neither operate under ISP-controlled DNS servers that SOPA is proposing to censor.

It might possibly affect main bitcoin exchanges if the government decides bitcoins are illegal, but bitcoin itself would be ridiculously hard to stop.
Title: Re: Could SOPA impact Bitcoin and/or SilkRoad?
Post by: Rook on November 22, 2011, 02:18 am
Oops, didn't see steely's post.  As a response to Steely though, I would refer one to this article in Time Magazine:

http://techland.time.com/2011/11/21/how-the-internet-evolves-to-overcome-censorship/
Title: Re: Could SOPA impact Bitcoin and/or SilkRoad?
Post by: Steelydust on November 22, 2011, 03:47 am
Oops, didn't see steely's post.  As a response to Steely though, I would refer one to this article in Time Magazine:

http://techland.time.com/2011/11/21/how-the-internet-evolves-to-overcome-censorship/

That's an interesting perspective. It's kind of reminds me of those Spy Vs Spy comics, but it's Cops vs Geeks.