(SOPA) the Future in your hands…Inform yourself, know the history and all aspects of this Bill ”Stop Online Piracy Act” (H.R. 3261) ”including” Senate’s ”PROTECT IP Act” (S. 968)
Tell Congress not to censor the internet NOW! – fightforthefuture.org/pipa
For the following synopsis to the video above, see “fight for the future’s” profile on VIMEO http://vimeo.com/fightforthefuture
“PROTECT-IP is a bill that has been introduced in the Senate and the House and is moving quickly through Congress. It gives the government and corporations the ability to censor the net, in the name of protecting “creativity”. The law would let the government or corporations censor entire sites– they just have to convince a judge that the site is “dedicated to copyright infringement.”
The government has already wrongly shut down sites without any recourse to the site owner. Under this bill, sharing a video with anything copyrighted in it, or what sites like Youtube and Twitter do, would be considered illegal behavior according to this bill.
According to the Congressional Budget Office, this bill would cost us $47 million tax dollars a year — that’s for a fix that won’t work, disrupts the internet, stifles innovation, shuts out diverse voices, and censors the internet. This bill is bad for creativity and does not protect your rights.”
(See the following link from MSNBC):
Debating SOPA
http://video.msnbc.msn.com/up-with-chris-hayes/46004493#46004493
http://wordpress.org/news/2012/01/help-stop-sopa-pipa/
(See the above link for the article written by Jane Wells for the official WordPress Blog!) Some interesting points to note are what you see quoted below from Jane Wells. By going to the original article, you will see more relevant information as stated by her with more informative links given by the WordPress Blog’s page!
“Normally we stay away from from politics here at the official WordPress project — having users from all over the globe that span the political spectrum is evidence that we are doing our job and democratizing publishing, and we don’t want to alienate any of our users no matter how much some of us may disagree with some of them personally. Today, I’m breaking our no-politics rule, because there’s something going on in U.S. politics right now that we need to make sure you know about and understand, because it affects us all.” ~ Posted January 10, 2012 by Jane Wells. Filed under Community.
“The recent SOPA-related boycott of GoDaddy was all over the news, with many people expressing their outrage over the possibilities of SOPA, but when I ask people about SOPA and its sister bill in the Senate, PIPA (Protect IP Act), many don’t really know what the bills propose, or what we stand to lose. If you are not freaked out by SOPA/PIPA, please: for the next four minutes, instead of checking Facebook statuses, seeing who mentioned you on Twitter, or watching the latest episode of Sherlock*, watch this video (by Fight for the Future).” ~Posted January 10, 2012 by Jane Wells. Filed under Community.”Blogging is a form of activism. You can be an agent of change. Some people will tell you that taking action is useless, that online petitions, phone calls to representatives, and other actions won’t change a single mind, especially one that’s been convinced of something by lobbyist dollars. To those people, I repeat the words of Margaret Mead:” ~Posted January 10, 2012 by Jane Wells. Filed under Community.
Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has. ~Margaret Mead, quoted by: Jane Wells
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January 16, 2012 at 2:33 am