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Help Save the Internet from being Censored!!!
14 years ago
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The US Congress is ready to pass the Stop Online Piracy Act which would enable them to shut down such sites as YouTube simply because users upload such things as My Little Pony episodes or even do karaoke of a copyrighted song.
If you live in the US please help us all by letting your representatives know you won't stand for them censoring our free internet. If you live somewhere else, please back us up in any way you can. It would a major blow to ALL of us if this legislation passes since so many of the sites that would be affected are based in the US.
Go to this site (DemandProgress.org) and send a letter to congress. Please! It's for ALL of us!! http://act.demandprogress.org/letter/finish_strong/?akid=1026.218994.dftKL7&rd=1&t=3
If you live in the US please help us all by letting your representatives know you won't stand for them censoring our free internet. If you live somewhere else, please back us up in any way you can. It would a major blow to ALL of us if this legislation passes since so many of the sites that would be affected are based in the US.
Go to this site (DemandProgress.org) and send a letter to congress. Please! It's for ALL of us!! http://act.demandprogress.org/letter/finish_strong/?akid=1026.218994.dftKL7&rd=1&t=3
Foxene
~foxene
went and signed it
rabbitfangs
∞rabbitfangs
OP
Thanks Foxene!! There are a bunch of petitions and such around about this thing. They're really trying to fuck us over with this one!!!
TristanBeaner
~tristanbeaner
I singed it yesterday and today!!!
rabbitfangs
∞rabbitfangs
OP
Good on ya!! Xd I've signed about 4. they need to hear us loud and clear on this!
TristanBeaner
~tristanbeaner
Hell Yeah! I singed it about 3 times now
rabbitfangs
∞rabbitfangs
OP
Coolness!
TristanBeaner
~tristanbeaner
Yep!!
ChakatKeklilyLongfall
~chakatkeklilylongfall
I dun live in US but I help fund them
ChakatKeklilyLongfall
~chakatkeklilylongfall
cause if US passes these laws then it won't be long until EU's "American butt wipers" want's to put the same thing in the EU
rabbitfangs
∞rabbitfangs
OP
Exactly! And we just don't need it!
carlos-penguin
~carlos-penguin
I can't sign it, but my FB mates have a signing campaign going
rabbitfangs
∞rabbitfangs
OP
Excellent!! thanks so much!!
ameline
~ameline
right now, if im reading the bill correctly it looks like it first will block websights like the pirate bay, but it really dose not seem to have clear wording on what else it could do. Soo im signing this stuff.
rabbitfangs
∞rabbitfangs
OP
Thank you! This kind of legislation scares the crap out of me. It has the potential to be devastating to one of the most important freedoms we have. And that is the freedom of information exchange. Remember, the first thing to do if you're going to control the population is control their access to information. Call me a conspiracy theorist if you will, but I do believe there is a concerted effort to just this worldwide.
Sylderon
~sylderon
Done. Thankfully, it would probably be rather difficult to completely enforce legislation like this, due to the very nature of the Intertubes. For example, look up the Streisand Effect.
rabbitfangs
∞rabbitfangs
OP
I see what you're saying, but in this case they would be jailing people for their uploads and severely hampering the operation or even shutting down sites that the people who upload the proscribed content use. Or are you saying that people would retaliate in such numbers that it would be impossible to enforce for that reason?
Sylderon
~sylderon
The Streisand Effect basically says that once an effort to eliminate something from the Internet becomes publicized, it becomes self-defeating, as the information in question will be mirrored and copied and repeated so much that it cannot possibly be completely eliminated. So yes, it would be your second statement.
rabbitfangs
∞rabbitfangs
OP
That would happen right up to the point where they shut down the offending site. This kind of legislation would give them the power to do just that. then it would be eliminated from that source anyway.
Sylderon
~sylderon
Yes...only to be mirrored on another site, and another, with numerous servers in various jurisdictions. The very decentralization of the Internet is what defies all attempts to regulate it. You could go the Chinese way, but I think that would be a bit too much in this country.
