Google, Facebook, Twitter worried over ‘rogue websites’ bill
The giants of the digital economy, among them Google, Facebook and Twitter, have voiced their concerns over a proposed US anti-piracy bill. Rights groups are also worried as the law could limit free speech gagging sites like WikiLeaks.Web companies have written a letter to the US government showing their opposition to the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA), saying that it poses risks to the internet.
"Unfortunately, the bills as drafted would expose law-abiding US internet and technology companies to new uncertain liabilities, private rights of action, and technology mandates that would require monitoring of websites," they wrote in a letter to the House of Representatives and Senate Judiciary committee..... MORE
Source: RT.com
URL: http://rt.com/news/google-facebook-anti-piracy-507/
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naku, pag naisabatas ito eh maglilipatan na palabas ng facebook, google, yahoo, twitter, at pati mozilla ang mga internet activists at iba pang ayaw i.kompromiso ang kanilang pagsasarili/privacy papunta sa NON-U.S. sites.
""Unfortunately, the bills as drafted would expose law-abiding US internet and technology companies to new uncertain liabilities, private rights of action, and technology mandates that would require monitoring of websites," they wrote in a letter to the House of Representatives and Senate Judiciary committee.
"The list of firms that signed it includes such powerful players as Google, Facebook, Yahoo, Twitter, eBay, LinkedIn, Mozilla and Zynga."
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