Just the other day, President Obama urged other countries to stop censoring the Internet. But now the United States Congress is trying to censor the Internet here at home. A new bill being debated would have the Attorney General create an Internet blacklist of sites that US Internet providers would be required to block.

This is the kind of heavy-handed censorship you'd expect from a dictatorship, where one man can decide what web sites you're not allowed to visit. But the Senate Judiciary Committee is expected to pass the bill as soon as they get back after the election -- and Senators say they haven't heard much in the way of objections! That's why we need you to sign our urgent petition to Congress demanding they oppose the Internet blacklist.

Get real. They will most likely be blocking blachhat sites and drivebys and other sites that host malware that either trick or force the user into downloading viruses. NGU currently has had one malware attack recently, thanks Axiom, but currently I think that it will be targeting sites that have: child porn, porn sites without age warning, blackhat sites, known driveby sites (drive bys are basically a Java app that makes the user think they are udpating Java but really they install a virus or other thing the maker specifies) and maybe torrent sites.