STOP SOPA- WEDNESDAY JANUARY 18- JOIN BLACK OUT DAY WITH REDDIT, WIKIPEDIA and many more...
iMPORTANT REBLOG - Stop SOPA! Join Black Out Day with Reddit, Wikipedia and many more on Wednesday, January 18, 2012. Don't sit this one out, folks!
(Or, also known as The Idjits in Congress are at it Again!)
SOPA- Why ActiveRain- Wordpress- Zillow- Wikipedia and Every Other Platform Needs To Say NO to SOPA!
Join all of us for the SOPA BlackOut Day Tomorrow Wednesday January 18, 2012.
Reddit.com just announced that they will also be blacking out tomorrow. If you want to join the strike by blacking out your site tomorrow you can register for the black out here:
http://americancensorship.org/
So is Wikipedia and many other sites. Wikipedia will shut down their English version for 24 hours starting tomorrow. Jimmy Wales, co-founder of Wikipedia said that these bills will endanger free speech and create internet censorship like we have never seen before.
Google will be lodging their official protest against SOPA tomorrow on their homepage. Twitter and Facebook are joining in on the protest by trying to pass the word to stop SOPA. Google.inc will place a link on January 18th on its' home page to protest both of the anti-piracy measures in the house and senate.
Google has measures in place to combat copyright infringement. Last year alone they took down 5 Million websites that were violating copyrights. Not only that, but we each have protections in the copyright laws.
If you notice when you go to your sites on Wordpress, you will see a STOP SOPA banner across the right side of your site in the upper corner.
They will tell you that SOPA- which stands for Stop Online Piracy Act is to stop online piracy. But that is not what this bill will do. This bill is being pushed and driven by lobbyists and the Hollywood elite. The unintended consequences will be beyond what we can imagine.
This bill will hurt bloggers, site owners, ActiveRain and all other sites that allow content on their sites. This bill is only for big corporations and the Hollywood movie producers who do NOT want to go through due process of the law. This bill can literrally get entire networks like Wordpress.Org shut down ONLY on an allegation!
Just imagine what your competition can do to you!!!!
The damage just to the infrastructure of the internet will be so huge that the censorship issue in this bill will be meaningless.
What is worse than all of this, you have congressmen and women who are admitting on recordings that they do not understand the internet. You can hear them saying things like, "pass the bill then we will worry about what is in it."
Google executives and programmers tried to get a hearing on this only to be called "computer nerds and geeks" and were not even given the time of day to explain the repurcussions of this bill. These politicians were saying they would not understand what they would say anyways, so what is the point? Well, heck, don't pass things you don't understand!!!!!!!!!!
The Senate Bill is S.968 and the House Bill is H.R. 3261.
Contact your Senators and Congresspersons tomorrow to tell them to say NO To SOPA and PIPA. Make those phones on Capital Hill ring, ring, ring!
You can get a complete list of action steps you can take right now and tomorrow athttp://americancensorship.org including:
- Write to your congressman
- Join the Webstrike and black out tomorrow
- Sign the Petition to the State Department
- Lobby Congress
- Add the "Stop Censorship" black strip across your banner on your website
Join us now to STOP SOPA.
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