US Citizens: Fight Against SOPA

[silentg]

Whitehouse posted a petition to fight against SOPA > VETO the SOPA bill and any other future bills that threaten to diminish the free flow of information
http://wh.gov/DfY

Avaaz petition: http://avaaz.org/en/save_the_internet/?fp

 

[iestates]

done

 

[kokopelli]

Count me in too!

 

[Vincent]

Act now before it's too late. Count me in.

 

[Luc]

+1 more

 

[silentg]

Make no mistake: These bills aren't simply unconstitutional, they are anti-constitutional. They would allow for the wholesale elimination of entire websites, domain names, and chunks of the DNS (the underlying structure of the whole Internet), based on nothing more than the "good faith" assertion by a single party that the website is infringing on a copyright of the complainant. The accused doesn't even have to be aware that the complaint has been made.

Read more: MythBuster Adam Savage: SOPA Could Destroy the Internet as We Know It - Popular Mechanics
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[Gerry]

Internet engineers don’t like PIPA and SOPA

DECEMBER 15, 2011 | BY PARKER HIGGINS AND PETER ECKERSLEY
An Open Letter From Internet Engineers to the U.S. Congress

Today, a group of 83 prominent Internet inventors and engineers sent an open letter to members of the United States Congress, stating their opposition to the SOPA and PIPA Internet blacklist bills that are under consideration in the House and Senate respectively.

Full Story

 

[silentg]

It looks like the protest against SOPA is growing strong:
http://techcrunch.com/2011/12/22/pa...g-companies-no-longer-allowed-at-yc-demo-day/
http://techcrunch.com/2011/12/22/ch...-sopa-were-taking-our-1000-domains-elsewhere/
http://www.reddit.com/r/videos/comments/nmw8k/be_a_hero_and_help_stop_sopa_now_ill_tell_you_how/
http://blog.hostgator.com/ (Host Gator joins the protest as well)
http://dyn.com/sopa-what-you-should-know-why-dyn-opposes-it/

 

[Mark Talbot]

YES!!

Finally representatives and administration are hearing, regardless of how much PAC money they pocket!

http://www.ignorancedenied.com/threads/7811-Ndaa-amp-sopa?p=53832&viewfull=1#post53832

 

[silentg]

SOPA bill gets pulled > http://mashable.com/2012/01/20/sopa-is-dead-smith-pulls-bill/

Now we got to fight against PIPA > https://action.eff.org/o/9042/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=8173

 

[rngrdanny22]

According to CNNMoney.com, both SOPA and PIPA have been postponed indefinitely.

Read here: http://money.cnn.com/2012/01/20/technology/SOPA_PIPA_postponed/index.htm

 

[silentg]

Politicians are at it again> http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2011/08/the-legislation-that-could-kill-internet-privacy-for-good/242853/
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