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According a Washington Post article, “Boni acknowledged in a radio interview Monday morning that the government had failed to hold enough consultations with the public on the matter.”
NO SHIT!?
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STOP ACTA NOW! (Info, Petitions, & Links)
“The EU is now the last hope to stop the dangerous international intellectual property treaty, the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement. ACTA will destroy the openness of the internet and threatens free speech online by forcing websites and ISPs to watch and track our every move, all in the name of copyright protection.” -AccessNow.org
info:
Official A.C.T.A. Document
Helpful YouTube Video
http://www.stopacta.info/
http://www.laquadrature.net/en/three-core-reasons-for-rejecting-acta
https://www.accessnow.org/page/s/just-say-no-to-acta (also a petition)global petitions:
Stop ACTA (to the UN)
Stopp ACTA
Just Say ‘No’ to ACTA
Stop ATCA Now!
Stop Canada from passing ACTA
UK representatives: Stop ACTA
Act against ACTA (to the U.S. Congress)citizens of europe: contact your representatives!
Go to http://www.europarl.org/, select your country (left colume) and then find the contacts of your representatives under “Parlament”, “Your MEPs” or something like this. AND LET THEM KNOW WHAT YOU THINK! Here’s some instructions on how/what to write!StopACTANow on Twitter
Stop ACTA Now! on FacebookMany thanks to the good tumblrs who have been helpful and well-spoken, collected links and information, reblogged and spread the word!
(Source: brolinskeep)
Web Goes On Strike, January 18th 2012!
Join the Internet blackout to stop SOPA & PIPA and petition Twitter and other sites to join us! <link>
I will be online raising awareness on the 18th from 8 am to 8 pm EST in protest and solidarity and am also planning on changing as many of my profiles pics to blank, default, or black and linking to Reddit where they will be posting information and links explaining what we’re doing and why. You can read their article on the subject here.
If you feel as strongly about stopping PIPA and SOPA as I do I urge you to call your local representative at the very least, as I have, and though not everyone has the luxury of being able to not check their email or shut down their site, every little bit helps.
“Internet censorship is going to a vote in the Senate on January 24th (known as PIPA in the Senate and SOPA in the House). While Senators are in their home states for the January recess, we need to flood their public meetings and offices with our concerns about the bill.” - AmericanCensorship.org
While the President and the White House have released a statement vaguely stated that they are against the bill, it still has a lot of support and some form of this bill might make its way through if we aren’t clear about how fast these organizations and politicians will lose our support and patronage if they don’t stop pushing it now.
Another video explaining what PROTECT IP (PIPA) and SOPA are, what they do, and how seriously they could eff things up.
(vid snagged from criminella)
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A Taste Of Thing To Come? of the Day: Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales has just announces via Twitter that he will be joining the anti-SOPA blackout planned for this Wednesday, January 18th.
Starting at midnight EST, the English version of Wikipedia will go dark for 24 hours, crippling student reports everywhere, and hopefully bringing much-needed attention to the Internet killing bill and its congressional sibling, PIPA.
Even though SOPA was shelved over the weekend after President Obama expressed opposition to the bill, it is still expected to reemerge.
Reddit’s Internet blackout initiative, which was officially unveiled last week, has been steadily picking up steam, with multiple Internet giants announcing their intentions to follow suit.
A list of sites that have confirmed their participation can be found here.
[@jimmy_wales.]
Other sites I use/enjoy that’ll be going dark:
All Cheezburger sites (aka lolcats & Failblog)
Cakewrecks
And you can look at the rest of the list on Reddit via the link in the article above ^](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lxwkwa3LfA1qzpwi0o1_1280.jpg)
A Taste Of Thing To Come? of the Day: Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales has just announces via Twitter that he will be joining the anti-SOPA blackout planned for this Wednesday, January 18th.
Starting at midnight EST, the English version of Wikipedia will go dark for 24 hours, crippling student reports everywhere, and hopefully bringing much-needed attention to the Internet killing bill and its congressional sibling, PIPA.
Even though SOPA was shelved over the weekend after President Obama expressed opposition to the bill, it is still expected to reemerge.
Reddit’s Internet blackout initiative, which was officially unveiled last week, has been steadily picking up steam, with multiple Internet giants announcing their intentions to follow suit.
A list of sites that have confirmed their participation can be found here.
[@jimmy_wales.]
Other sites I use/enjoy that’ll be going dark:
All Cheezburger sites (aka lolcats & Failblog)
And you can look at the rest of the list on Reddit via the link in the article above ^
Congressional SOPA hearings: no opponents of the bill allowed
Read and Reblog please!!
“As the House of Representatives opens hearings on SOPA, the worst piece of Internet legislation in American history, it has rejected all submissions and testimony from public interest groups and others who oppose the bill.
Irony Alert: The House is holding hearings on sweeping Internet censorship legislation this week — and it’s censoring the opposition! The bill is backed by Hollywood, Big Pharma, and the Chamber of Commerce, and all of them are going to get to testify at the hearing.
But the bill’s opponents — tech companies, free speech and human rights activists, and hundreds of thousands of Internet users — won’t have a voice.”
[Copy & Pasted from the link to make things clearer]
How can you make informed decisins if you don’t hear both sides of an argument?
You CAN’T.
A few other articles on the subject since after reading this I sure as heck wanted to know more:
• Washington Post: SOPA (Stop Online Piracy Act) lawmaker opposition grows as debate heats up
• Mobiledia: Piracy Bill Opposition Increases As Legislators Ready Vote
• Ars Technica: Strange bedfellows: Nancy Pelosi, Ron Paul join SOPA opposition
• CBS News: SOPA opposition from tech heavyweights Google, Facebook
• OS News: SOPA Hearing Rigged to Attack Google, SOPA Opponents
