SOPA: The Internet will Go Dark on Wednesday. Will there be No more Facebook, No more YouTube, No more ActiveRain?
Fred Griffin has brought an interesting and somewhat troublesome fact to our attention. Please read Fred's post and leave your comments and input on Fred's page. I am disabling comments on my page. Please tell Fred, John McCormack, Albuquerque, REALTOR® sent you his way!
Google will Protest. No more Facebook, no more YouTube, no more ActiveRain. This will happen if Congress passes SOPA and PIPA, bills to purportedly end "Online Piracy".
Tomorrow, Wednesday January 18 2010, major websites including Wikipedia, Mozilla, WordPress, Reddit, and others will "Go Dark" in protest.
Google will protest on their Home Page, declaring its opposition to the Stop Online Privacy Act and the Protect IP Act.
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5 Hollywood Studios, 4 Multinational Record Labels, and 6 Global Publishers have paid millions of dollars to Congressmen and Congresswomen, both Republicans and Democrats, to pass this Bill.
You have probably not heard this on Mainstream Media News, because MSM is owned by Viacom, Rupert Murdoch, Time Warner, and Disney - the very people who are pushing this Censorship Bill through Congress!
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This is serious! Obama has proclaimed his opposition against this Bill, but Congress may have the votes to override a veto. House Majority Leader Eric Cantor has "stalled" this Bill after the increasing public uproar, but it is by no means dead.
*** What does this mean? According to this Un-Constitutional Bill, someone could report a "copyright violation" to an Un-Elected Federal Judge.
With No Due Process of Law, the Judge would order the ENTIRE Website to be taken down.
This includes ActiveRain, Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, or any other Website. Any ISP that showed the "offending" Website would be guilty of a Felony.
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Eric Schmidt, CEO of Microsoft, called this "Draconian".
The Wall Street Journal compares SOPA to the Censorship of Red China.
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5 Hollywood Studios, the 4 Families that own the Recording Industry Association of America, plus 6 Global Publishers, have hated the Internet ever since the days of "Napster".
Your Freedom has cost them $Billions of Dollars.
They want the Internet gone; they have bribed Congressmen on both sides of the Aisle to push this measure through.
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Have you called your Congressman and U.S. Senator?
Let your voice be heard... make the calls. Stop SOPA!
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Fred Griffin, Licensed Florida Real Estate Broker and Social Media Consultant
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