Stop SOPA/PIPA

[Shay]

Imagine a World
Without Free Knowledge

For over a decade, we have spent millions of hours building the largest encyclopedia in human history. Right now, the U.S. Congress is considering legislation that could fatally damage the free and open Internet. For 24 hours, to raise awareness, we are blacking out Wikipedia.

https://www.google.com/landing/takeaction/

[Shay]

[Shay]

http://news.cnet.com/8301-31001_3-57360 ... home-page/

[Shay]

http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/01/ ... 1U20120118

[Shay]

Here is a quick clip under four minutes to explain PIPA.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yDX8Lyl1 ... ture=share

[Shay]

For those who are questioning who supports this link has a current list of supporter vs. opponents.

http://projects.propublica.org/sopa/

[Shay]

(Thanks for opening multiple link posts.)

Here is the Senate contact list
http://www.senate.gov/general/contact_i ... rs_cfm.cfm
and the House contact list.
http://www.house.gov/representatives/

You can also use the EFF's form-letter
http://blacklist.eff.org/
the Stop American Censorship form-letter
http://americancensorship.org/index2.html
or sign Google's petition:
https://www.google.com/landing/takeaction/

If you don't live in the U.S., you can petition the State Department.
http://americancensorship.org/#petition ... department
(And yes, you have a dog in this fight.)
http://www.michaelgeist.ca/content/view/6244/125/

SOPAStrike has a list of companies participating in the protest:
http://sopastrike.com/

and this crowd-sourced Google Doc tracks companies that support the legislation:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc ... li=1#gid=0

[Shay]

Alright. Last post for the time being and then I've really gotta head to bed. It is waaaaaaaay past my bedtime. Check out this blog post from Stumble. They have some great videos, articles, and websites all about SOPA/PIPA and the fight against it.

http://www.stumbleupon.com/blog/why-wer ... a-and-pipa

[Wesley]

Something else to think about.... SOPA is so idiotic and unconstitutional that there is no way it will pass. However, in the aftermath and uproar, I fear they will sneak something under the radar that has similar evil intent, and nobody will notice because everyone is all excited about SOPA. Keep your eyes open and your head on a swivel.

[Clovvach]

What's happening America? :C

Let's not lose our freedoms!

[Dowster]

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news ... senate.ars

Lots of explanation on that site as well under the other links

[Shay]

http://boingboing.net/wp-content/upload ... 191642.jpg

[Beany]

There's an EU one as well apparently. My friend was trying to explain it this morning. Apparently they'll monitor private emails though. Isn't there a law AGAINST that already?

[Shay]

There's no way that could be legal. Do you know where it currently stands?

[Beany]

No, I hadn't even heard of it until yesterday. I'm hoping that she's got herself muddled.

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