SOPA/PIPA bill

SOPA stands for Stop Online Piracy Act.

From the title, this sounds like a no-brainer. Get rid of foreign companies who steal American content or design and turn a profit or give it away for free.

But I encourage anyone not familiar with the ENTIRE bill being presented to congress to quickly become aware of what this affects exactly. It allows government to block AMERICANS from viewing a website if said website is accused of piracy. Thats right, in its current written form the government can forcefully take down a website accused of piracy or copyright WITHOUT DUE PROCESS.

Do you frequently use Ebay? Craigslist? Sites like this will be attacked and shut down if this bill passes because apparently selling items (that you bought and paid for) infringes on companies rights. (because these large companies-we call lobbyists-who pay off goverment want you to only purchase new items from them).

Use Wikipedia or youtube... or forums??? This bill could aim to shut down sites that SHARE public information for free. Lobb-er-companies want you to go through them and/or government controlled information

Shit like this scares me. We need to limit the government, NOT the INTERNET.


check the links
http://www.craigslist.org/about/SOPA
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kepler-22b
http://sopastrike.com/strike

Confirmed Participants of the Wednesday Blackout:
Google
Wikipedia
reddit
Mozilla
WordPress
icanhazcheezburger network sites (FailBlog, theDailyWhat,Know Your Meme, etc)
Tucows
VanillaForums
Flickr
Michael Moore
The RawStory
Open Congress / PPF
Internet Archive
Miro
Universal Subtitles
Center for Technology and Democracy
Electronic Frontier Foundation
Politics1.com
O'Reilly Media
Namecheap
TwitPic
dotSUB
MoveOn.org
Gog.com
MineCraft
Tor Project
webhostingbuzz.com
RageMaker
Destructiod
theCHIVE
theBERRY
Red 5 studios
A Softer World
PostSecret
Greenpeace International
The LeakyWiki
XDA-Developers
Indenti.ca
>Major League Gaming
The ECA
Game Politics
Imgur
Monticello Capitol
Crypto Cat
Colossal Mind
TweetFail
Errata Security
FreakOutNation
SlashTHREE
Focus On the Facts
City News
Strategy Tune
Progressive Congress News
bitBucker
WPS Security Lock
openSUSE
Smirking Chimp
Bread Without Bullets
iSchool at Syracuse University
nomacs Image Lounge
ComputerHope
PhantomTS
News2Map.com
Safex.tk
DatelineZero
Liberty Confidential
Victor Rix
WJSimpson
Spurs of The Moment
peeje
DigiBase
Tomayko Peters
GTA-NeXT
Hertz Gaming
Elegant Solutions Software and Publishing Company
Short Travel Tips
SoulFriends
JammerDirec
Free Internet Press
youn00b.com
Pop Culture Madness
Celebrity Magnet
Grand Magazine
941 Media Project
The Linux Geeks
Occupy Birmingham (UK)
LiveLocalCard.com
Turkreno
The Tao of Pooh
James Wade Weaver
lowson.ca
Go Green Charleston!
eliteMRP
Antjepolis.com
Stonewall Young Democrats
AppBlitz
Brown Cafe
Crush Labs
Antonamor
RockAndWater.net
Elder Scrolls Wikia
Deadlock Site
team-CTC
Tommy Wierper
Ron Bercume Design
Jazz Sequence
Plague Studio
ViperZeroOne
Motorcycle Street and Strip Magazine
Blue Dragon Creations
Briana Dragon
The Vampire's Lair
Elephant Talk Wiki
TheComeAndGo
katchabilek
CPAarmy Central
The Skate Rack
whitehouse.gov1.info
The Memphis Ghost Hunters
Cerebralboinkfest

http://sopastrike.com/


there is also a huge list of unfilter (unconfirmed) sites that are also part of this blackout.

silly americans, u live in a free country, my ass you do

Whitty21 wrote:

silly americans, u live in a free country, my ass you do

how many sites do you visit that are based in america? it will effect many more that just americans.

Ya I can't get on Craigslist I had to go to searchtempest.com I was like what the heck.

ZillaFreak wrote:

Whitty21 wrote:

silly americans, u live in a free country, my ass you do

how many sites do you visit that are based in america? it will effect many more that just americans.

not many, i know it effects me, but i find american politics amusing yet scary

Whitty21 wrote:

ZillaFreak wrote:

Whitty21 wrote:

silly americans, u live in a free country, my ass you do

how many sites do you visit that are based in america? it will effect many more that just americans.

not many, i know it effects me, but i find american politics amusing yet scary

i know 3 sites for sure that will affect you.
here, facebook, blasterforum, i am sure there are other forums you visit that are american bases sites.

by american based, i just mean the owner of the site or the site was created in america and uses an american ip.

i know it will effect me, nothing i can do about the bills u guys pass though, so i laugh

lol i doubt there is much we can do either. it does suck though.

The government wants to regulate the internet because it's the only place where people basically can say what they want. Fucck the politicians. They only do what makes them money. This is another example of giving into special interests. Fucking bullshit.

Ya the government just wants more money so there going to find ways to do it. Which Americans are going to be irate because they can't get on a website a lot of people live on the internet and search things. I'm on it a lot myself. GOVERMENT NEEDS TO BE SHUT DOWN LOL they are the ones that get paid higher and use are tax money to buy there clothing and go on vacation and lie and say its for research and there hole family goes sounds fishy.

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