SOPA - Protect IP Act
  • BlazeBlaze November 2011
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    Congress is holding hearings on American Internet censorship starting today. This has the potential to make WCOM a censored website.








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  • LemonLemon November 2011
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    Censorship for the US.
    How does this affect Canada?
    (I'm not being an asshole, I really am concerned as to how this will affect me),
  • hfswjyrhfswjyr November 2011
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    That infographic is ridiculous. As much as I disagree with censorship, those graphs and general xenophobic propaganda ("US is doing something the same as china syria and iran? SHIT IT MUST BE TERRIBLE") are just laughable.

    But yea, censorship of internet is scary. Someday we're all going to be saying "oh I remember when the internet was free..."
  • BlazeBlaze November 2011
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    Lemon said:

    Censorship for the US.
    How does this affect Canada?
    (I'm not being an asshole, I really am concerned as to how this will affect me),



    Watch video much?

    Not much other than the possibility that it could help push Internet censorship into being a new fad. Other nations have already started Internet censorship, and if the US follows suit it may really get the ball rolling.

    Edit: Also if I can't access wcom, none of you will be accessing it next time it goes down. =)
  • LemonLemon November 2011
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    :(
  • The+Dunwich+HorrorThe Dunwich Horror November 2011
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    This is actually very scary.
  • Eterna1Eterna1 November 2011
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    We need to get the Mansion up and running, and fast. 
  • fusi0nfusi0n November 2011
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    This is a mind fuck
  • TheMightyPeonTheMightyPeon November 2011
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    fucking hollywood.
  • LemonLemon November 2011
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    So when is this bill passing?
  • fusi0nfusi0n November 2011
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    Every year that goes by makes me want to leave this country more and more.  Our government is sofa king retarded.
  • BlazeBlaze November 2011
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    Fight For The Future info@fightforthefuture.org



    Last week there was a small meeting at Mozilla to discuss SOPA, the Internet Censorship Bill.

    It was eerie.  The DC groups were practically screaming "this bill is the worst we've ever seen, and we can't stop it" -- while everyone else had barely heard of it.   The consensus?  We needed to wake people up.

    Well, this week the Internet woke up.  *You* woke the Internet up.

    Check out the numbers and screenshots from American Censorship Day.

    Over 80,000 Tumblr users called ther representatives.  SOPA was a trending tweet in the U.S. and between the Electronic Fronteir Foundation, Avaaz, and Demand Progress (groups that are just now working together!) we sent Congress over 1,000,000 emails.

    The scary part?  We still might lose.  Though growing fast, our coalition still isn't strong enough.

    The bill is backed by an unholy alliance of Hollywood, its unions, drug companies, and the Chamber of Commerce.  They are pouring money into it, and they've been working on this for years.  Yesterday, big players like Tumblr, Mozilla, Reddit, BoingBoing and even 4chan came out strong on our side.  Now it's your turn.  We've got to dig in and go viral.

    Can you tell 20 friends about the Internet Censorship Bill?

    Click here to spread the word on Facebookimage        Click here for Twitterimage

     

    Or just forward this email.

    And remember, the thing that made yesterday so powerful were the thousands of people who ran "Stop Censorship" messages on their sites.

    Can you add a "Stop Censorship" message to your blog, Tumblr, Facebook, or YouTube pages?  Click here for the code.

    If you ran "Stop Censorship" or the "Contact Congress" splash on your page, we humbly ask you to keep running it until this bill is dead, and to find more people who can.  We understand if you can't, but the bill is just as bad as it was yesterday -- so we've got to ask.

    Click here to get the code to add to your page.  It's easy.

    This week was amazing -- thanks for everything you've done.  There will be more, we promise.

    Holmes Wilson

    Fight for the Future

    AmericanCensorship.org

  • Eterna1Eterna1 November 2011
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    Can I do anything as a Canadian? 
  • The+Cheshire+CatThe Cheshire Cat November 2011
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    "even" 4chan? 4chan would be the first website to suffer from such a change.
  • BlazeBlaze November 2011
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    On the americancensorship.org site you can fill out your info and below it there is an (I'm not in the US) link
  • Eterna1Eterna1 November 2011
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    sent
  • dac November 2011
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    Eterna1 said:

    Can I do anything as a Canadian? 



    Poor fella... it's finally dawning on him.

    There there, buddy...
  • Eterna1Eterna1 November 2011
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    Pfft, we'll be the next superpower. We're already $30 billion on 65 new F-35s... 
  • Eterna1Eterna1 November 2011
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    "Any serious questions about commitment to the program by the United States – which is expected to order about 2,500 F-35s, triple the number of all other countries put together – could provoke a stampede to the exits."

    durr
  • The+Dunwich+HorrorThe Dunwich Horror November 2011
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    Triple the number of all other countries put together???  Jesus fucking Christ America.
  • %28the%29Zulu(the)Zulu November 2011
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    needs them jets yo
  • The+Dunwich+HorrorThe Dunwich Horror November 2011
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    They better at least make another Top Gun movie.
  • creedcreed November 2011
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  • Eterna1Eterna1 November 2011
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    In Canada a lot of people are pretty upset about the cost, how it's pointless, etc. How do the American people think its OK to spend $1.2 trillion on jets? Borrowed money? Is it possible to borrow $1.2 trillion from around the world, spend it on jets, then use the jets to destroy the countries so you don't have pay them back? 
  • BlazeBlaze November 2011
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    http://www.usdebtclock.org/

    What? We only have a 15 trillion dollar debt, and only 701 billions has been used on national defense. No big deal.
  • TheMightyPeonTheMightyPeon November 2011
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    The newer the jet, the bigger the penis. Go back to russia if you don't like it, comrade. Or more relevant to this day and age; go back to china if you don't like it, ching chang.
  • The+Dunwich+HorrorThe Dunwich Horror November 2011
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    That's 2500 big, shiny, expensive penises.

  • RouterJesusRouterJesus November 2011
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    If this shit seriously goes through I'm moving as soon as I can. Fuck if they are going to stop me really while I'm here though(y haro thar 10 proxies).
  • The+Dunwich+HorrorThe Dunwich Horror November 2011
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    If it goes through, a lot of countries are going to follow.  You can always move to Russia ~
  • Cazb0tCazb0t November 2011
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    Not only are we buying more jets but I heard on NPR that we are also buying more naval warships, I think the price was like 12 billion each, or something. Let's buy a bigger army so we can better protect our shitty country
  • hfswjyrhfswjyr November 2011
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    speak softly but carry a big stick...
  • BlazeBlaze November 2011
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    The Internet Censorship Bill took a massive beating last week (yeah, you did that!) but drug companies, movie studios and the Chamber of Commerce do *not* go down easy.

    Now-- get this-- they're telling Congress it's a "jobs" bill.

    This is dangerous.  Everyone in Congress is desperate to do something to create jobs.  Now the most powerful lobbies in Washington are banging down their doors, saying "this is your (only) chance to pass a jobs bill."

    Since Congress is away for the holiday, there's one priority: sign up  as many people as possible for a massive call-in day when Congress returns.

    Click here to join in, by committing to call your Senator

    Since the House's "SOPA" has such a bad name (yes, you did that) lobbyists are moving their weight behind the Senate version, PIPA ("The PROTECT IP Act"). The Senate's censorship bill is just as bad; it's only missing a few of SOPA's extra-crazy provisions, like the ones that could send you to jail for singing a pop song on YouTube.  The website blocking provisions are all there.  Still, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid thinks that with the attention on SOPA, he can sneak PIPA through quickly when Congress returns.

    Reid needs to know this bill won't move forward without a fight.  That's why we're organizing a call-in day for Tuesday, using the same tools that our heroes at Tumblr used last week.  It's kind of perfect.  While Congress rests we've got 5 full days to sign up friends, colleagues, Twitter followers-- everybody.  Then on Tuesday we'll unleash a storm of phone calls.

    Click here to sign up, and then get others signed up too.

    This weekend, instead of nobly vegging out on the internet, you can fight for the future of the internet and freedom of speech.  Every ounce of time you spend counts.  

    Signups now, phone calls Tuesday.  Start your engines.

    Holmes Wilson
    Fight for the Future / AmericanCensorship.org

    P.S. Are you a Tumblr user?  We just put up a special section with extra-easy instructions for Tumblr users to add a "Stop Censorship" button to their site:  http://americancensorship.org/#tumblr

  • BlazeBlaze November 2011
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    Have you woken up from your food coma yet?  We don't have any time to waste.  

    Sources tell us that Senate leadership could call for a vote on the Internet censorship bill as early as this week, which is why we're trying to line up as many people as possible to call the Senate on Tuesday.  

    Ten thousand people have signed up so far, which is awesome.  But our goal is to absolutely flood Senators' phone lines, and that'll take about 50k calls.

    Will you click here to join in, by committing to call your Senator and helping us reach our goal?

    Those hundreds of thousands of emails we sent helped scare away a lot of support for the Stop Online Piracy Act -- the House's version of the censorship bill.  But the Senate version has been around much longer, and has a stronger core of people advocating for it.  

    When Hollywood, drug companies, and the Chamber of Commerce come calling, most Senators see dollar signs:  More than 30 of them have already said they back the legislation.

    That's why we need to redouble our efforts, steer as many calls as possible into the Senate on Tuesday, and scare off some of the Senators who say they're likely to support this thing.

    Please click here to sign up, and then help us get others signed up to make calls too, so we can reach our goal of 50k phone calls.

    While you're killing time on the internet this weekend, remember that some of your favorite sites might not be there anymore in a few weeks if we don't win our fight against this terrible legislation.

    Holmes Wilson
    Fight for the Future / AmericanCensorship.org

    P.S. Senator Wyden will fillibuster the censorship bill in the Senate, if it comes to that.  Sign this petition from our friends at Demand Progress and Sen. Wyden will read from this list during his fillibuster:StopCensorship.org

  • GorlathGorlath December 2011
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    http://keepthewebopen.com/sopa

    Oh god I hope it doesn't pass.
  • Cazb0tCazb0t December 2011
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    read the reddit page. bad news
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