SOPA Protest Day
Jan. 18th, 2012 04:02 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
riariYou may have seen the protests on the internet. Wikipedia going dark, Reddit, Google...
Google has censored their logo and created a landing page to inform about the bill.
Ars Technica has gone dark in a way, while spending the entire day's articles on SOPA protest, information, how to act, and alternatives to fix this.
Here is a list of our Senators. Here is how to find your House representative.
Call them. Write them. Let them know that SOPA/PIPA, even with the DNS blackout provisions removed, is still a bill that can cause damage and can take decades to revoke. If that's even possible.
PROTECT IP Act for the Senate which goes to vote on the 24th. SOPA is still in committee but is not dead. Rep. Lamar Smith has said it will go into markups in February.
These bills are over reaching and need to be stopped. Corporations should not have the power to shut down finances of websites that have user created content that is not piracy, even if the MPAA/RIAA think it is.
Google has censored their logo and created a landing page to inform about the bill.
Ars Technica has gone dark in a way, while spending the entire day's articles on SOPA protest, information, how to act, and alternatives to fix this.
Here is a list of our Senators. Here is how to find your House representative.
Call them. Write them. Let them know that SOPA/PIPA, even with the DNS blackout provisions removed, is still a bill that can cause damage and can take decades to revoke. If that's even possible.
PROTECT IP Act for the Senate which goes to vote on the 24th. SOPA is still in committee but is not dead. Rep. Lamar Smith has said it will go into markups in February.
These bills are over reaching and need to be stopped. Corporations should not have the power to shut down finances of websites that have user created content that is not piracy, even if the MPAA/RIAA think it is.
