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Please help if you can - the internet needs you!
December 16, 2011 at
05:15 AM
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http://americancensors
http://stopcensorship.
Yesterday I watched about three hours of this debate online [keepthewebopen.com] - the advocates for keeping the internet free (Reps. Lofgren, Issa, Chaffetz, and Polis, mainly) are fighting hard against a cadre of old technophobes who admit that they have no idea how the internet works or what it does.
The "good guys" managed to keep proposing amendments long enough that the debate was held over until today. They're starting again at 1000 EDT - roughly 90 minutes from now.
I don't know what else can be done but if you haven't already, PLEASE visit the first link and do as much as you can. If you have time & are willing to call, do that. If you can send email or sign petitions, do that. Educate yourself about the issue to be sure you agree - but I think any rational reasonable person will realize that this is a bad, bad bill and a horrible idea. The second link is another petition you can sign to have a Senator read your name during a filibuster of the Senate bill (right now the two bills are in committee).
I can't explain it any better than they do at stopcensorship.org so I won't try. Suffice to say that the internet as we know it could be drastically changed (IMO for the worse) should this bill pass.
I'll be watching as much as I can today - the third link has a live stream of the committee chambers.
Thanks.
http://stopcensorship.
Yesterday I watched about three hours of this debate online [keepthewebopen.com] - the advocates for keeping the internet free (Reps. Lofgren, Issa, Chaffetz, and Polis, mainly) are fighting hard against a cadre of old technophobes who admit that they have no idea how the internet works or what it does.
The "good guys" managed to keep proposing amendments long enough that the debate was held over until today. They're starting again at 1000 EDT - roughly 90 minutes from now.
I don't know what else can be done but if you haven't already, PLEASE visit the first link and do as much as you can. If you have time & are willing to call, do that. If you can send email or sign petitions, do that. Educate yourself about the issue to be sure you agree - but I think any rational reasonable person will realize that this is a bad, bad bill and a horrible idea. The second link is another petition you can sign to have a Senator read your name during a filibuster of the Senate bill (right now the two bills are in committee).
I can't explain it any better than they do at stopcensorship.org so I won't try. Suffice to say that the internet as we know it could be drastically changed (IMO for the worse) should this bill pass.
I'll be watching as much as I can today - the third link has a live stream of the committee chambers.
Thanks.
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http://judiciary.house
http://www.pcworld.com/businessce...ru
But more sites have joined the SOPA blackout:
Google
Internet Archive [archive.org]
imgur.com [imgur.com]
Tucows [tucowsinc.com]
Greanpeace [greenpeace.org]
WordPress [wordpress.org]
openSUSE [opensuse.org]
Destructoid [destructoid.com], Minecraft.net, Mojang.com and Red 5 Studios [destructoid.com]
Twitter won't be blacking out but may do something [twitter.com], but don't know what yet.
ETA: And don't forget that in less than three hours, Wikipedia is going dark for a full 24 hours [wikimediafoundation.org].
And if you want a good laugh, see Rupert Murdoch's (chairman of News Corp.) twitter rants about our little protest [twitter.com].
Thanks guys!
Thanks guys!
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Attachment 961090
Clicking through their blackened logo takes you here:
https://www.google.com/landing/takeaction/
Attachment 961118
Clicking through their blackened logo takes you here:
https://www.google.com/landing/takeaction/
And it looks like Mozilla will be going dark tomorrow, too
http://allthingsd.com/20120117/li...s-to-grow/
Update: Mozilla just sent a statement outlining what it will do for the protest: It will redirect traffic from the main Mozilla.org and Mozilla.com English websites to an action page for 12 hours on Wednesday, January 18th from 8 AM to 8 PM Eastern Time. It will also make the default Firefox start page black so that the tens of millions of Firefox users will see a black page with a call to action message rather than the traditional white page with the Firefox logo.
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