Rupert Murdoch attack Obama

In a message posted Sunday, January 15, Rupert Murdoch has attacked U.S. President Barack Obama . The media tycoon accused his government to make the play of large groups of the Internet by threatening to ‘s opposition to proposed anti-piracy law. “Obama has joined the bosses of Silicon Valley that threaten to piracy and theft outright all software developers ” writes Mr. Murdoch in the message sent from his Twitter account .

The president and founder of NewsCorp media makes reference to a statement released Saturday on the website of the White House about bills being considered in Congress. “Online piracy practiced by foreign websites is a serious problem that requires a serious response from the legislature, but we will not support legislation that would reduce the freedom of expression, increasing the risk cyber security or undermine the vitality and innovation of the Internet world ” , is claimed the White House .

Legislative proposals SOPA (Stop Online Piracy Act), introduced in the House of Representatives, and PIPA (Protect IP Act), studied in the Senate, designed to fight online piracy. The original text included several controversial measures to fight against the infringement of the copyright. The bill, supported by Republican and Democratic members, provided a DNS filtering illegal websites. This type of filtering is widely used in many authoritarian countries, including China, and prevents the machines that referrals query the network to find some sites.

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The text also intended to implement the dereference sites direct download or streaming on the search engines. And certain provisions of the text also considering the freezing of online payment sources. The Representative Lamar Smith, originally of the bill, however, backtracked on the issue of DNS filtering to be able to “consider further issues regarding this provision” , he says in a message on his site.

Bills and SOPA PIPA received support from Hollywood, the music industry and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. But in mid-December, several major groups of the Web, like eBay, Google, Twitter , Yahoo! and Wikipedia had published an open letter expressing concern projects of Congress. According to these Internet pioneers, the proposals under consideration “would give the U.S. government the power to censor the Internet using procedures similar to those used by China, Malaysia and Iran ” .

Other sites, like news aggregator Reddit, have threatened to cut service temporarily, Wednesday, Jan. 18, to protest against these bills.

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