Comments on: 'Internet freedom' bill targeting China cooperation faces rough road

Proposal waiting for a floor vote in the House saying U.S. firms may not place certain servers in repressive nations faces opposition from the Bush administration and others.

[Stormspace]

It's a sad day when American owned companies rat out people in oppressed nations. Especially when the penalties for civil disobedience in these countries can be life imprisonment or death. I would think these companies wouldn't need a law to know what's the right thing to do...

[cybervigilante]

So if our corporations bribe enough politicians to destroy net neutrality and get to virtually muzzle the net, how are we different from China? Except it's corporations instead of governments that will throttle freedom of speech.

[Pete Bardo]

Seems strange that Congress can simultaneously consider prohibiting placement of servers in 'nations deemed to be unreasonably "Internet-restricting"' while seeking to ban certain content from entering this country--child porn, Muslim, etc--in the name of protecting children anda fighting terrorism. If this bill goes through, many companies will consider limiting their liability by moving their servers out of the US. Congress, get a grip. No new laws!

[born2trade]

Yea well, i dont know why the US Congress thinks there is more freedom in the US, with Homeland Security Act, they can seize and shut down anything they deem a threat to the nation anyways... they just want more control so that people cannot fight back with home base in China and other countries... The US is always good with these heroic names, global online freedom, haha...

[born2trade]

Yea well, i dont know why the US Congress thinks there is more freedom in the US, with Homeland Security Act, they can seize and shut down anything they deem a threat to the nation anyways... they just want more control so that people cannot fight back with home base in China and other countries... The US is always good with these heroic names, global online freedom, haha...

[celt42]

I?ve never understood why the US foams at the mouth over trade with Cuba but encourages trade with China. What?s the difference? Cuba is certainly repressive but China is much more so. It denies democracy to billions of people and it invaded and occupied another country - Tibet.

John Williams
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