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Please help if you can - the internet needs you!
December 16, 2011 at
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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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I am so incredibly pissed off I could spit. I guess it's never been so clear to me before how biased the news media really are... during the whole 60-second story they never once mentioned WHY Wikipedia's blacked out (except to say that it's in protest of "a bill in Congress that's trying to stop online piracy") nor offer any information from our side of things.
This is WTOP in Washington, D.C. by the way.
FOX5DC did another story this morning about how nobody but Wikipedia is really upset by this and "none of the larger sites are doing anything, except Google has a little banner up."
I am simply gobsmacked by all of this, even though I know rationally that the media outlets are controlled by the industries that support SOPA and PROTECT-IP it still shocks me that nobody is presenting anything like a balanced or unbiased report about any of this. The very closest you'll get is "LOL the internet's mad again" and "pirates are bad mkay."
FARK
However, it seems we are being heard, at least by a few up on The Hill:
Five key senators abandon online piracy bills amid web protests [thehill.com]
"Congressional support for controversial online piracy legislation eroded dramatically on Wednesay in the face of an unprecedented online protest supported by tech titans such as Google, Wikipedia and Facebook.
Several key senators withdrew their support from the Senate's Protect IP Act, including Tea Party favorite Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) and Sen. Roy Blunt (R-Mo.), an elected member of his party's leadership.
Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas), who leads the Senate GOP campaign team, said the legislation should be put on hold, while Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-Utah), a sponsor and the ranking member of the Senate Finance Committee, retreated from the bill. Sen. John Boozman (D-Ark.) also withdrew his sponsorship [.....]
[...]Opposition is also building in the House. Two of the original Republican co-sponsors of SOPA, Ben Quayle (Ariz.) and Lee Terry (Neb.), withdrew their support Tuesday before the protests began, and scores of other lawmakers took to Twitter Wednesday to affirm their opposition.[....]"
And it looks like Congress's email servers may be getting a bit hot today, too.
http://www.washingtonp
"According to a mid-day check at Fight for the Future — the nonprofit organization behind Wednesday's protest — 300,000 people had e-mailed Congress to push lawmakers to ban the bills."
Good work, keep it up!
Here, go tell him what an idiot he is
http://www.facebook.co
http://twitter.com/LamarSmithTX21
But in other news
http://themoderatevoic
"A spokeswoman for Google confirmed that 4.5 million people added their names to the company's anti-SOPA petition today.
A total of 103,785 people signed We the People petitions asking the Obama Administration to protect an open and innovative internet. A petition asking President Obama to veto the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) got 51,689 signatures, while 52,096 people signed the "Stop the E-PARSITE Act" petition.
At one point today there were more than 270,000 Tweets per hour related to SOPA and PIPA, up 500 percent over Tuesday. There were over 2.4 million related tweets so far today.
PIPA support collapses, with 13 new Senators opposed, bringing the total number opposed to 33. And several SOPA co-sponsors in the House withdrew their support."
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And if it's a fake account, you'd think that either he or one of the news venues would have reported it as such by now, given the amount of publicity his tweeting has had.
But either way, it's a fun read
And if it's a fake account, you'd think that either he or one of the news venues would have reported it as such by now, given the amount of publicity his tweeting has had.
But either way, it's a fun read
(But frankly, I have a feeling that it really is Murdoch himself. Nothing real to go on, just a hunch.)
(But frankly, I have a feeling that it really is Murdoch himself. Nothing real to go on, just a hunch.)
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