SOPA is evil. Help the internet!

[muir]

Avaaz Petition

Dear friends,

Today could be the day we save the free Internet.

The US Congress was poised to pass a law allowing officials to censor access to any website around the world. But after we delivered our 1.25 million strong petition to the White House, it came out against the bill and with public pressure at a boiling point even some bill backers are switching sides. Now, the Wikipedia - led blackout protest has rocketed the public campaign to the top of the news.

We are turning the tide. But the dark forces of censorship are trying to revive the bill right now. Let

 

[uuu]

Wikipedia wasn't trying to indoctrinate you, it was just informing you of what is happening and advising you that sites such as wikipedia could be threatened by SOPA so its worth your attention if you value sites like wikipedia....which lets face it is an awesome site!

I really don't worry about the stigma attached to conspiracy theories; i have read now so many things that are documented fact that seemed so outlandish at first that my mind is now open to many possibilities.

By 'turn you off' i meant the government is capable of pretty much anything

Check out these for a start:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_MKULTRA

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Northwood

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_COINTELPRO

I'm sorry, but I don't take "crazy shit has happened before" as proof of an outrageous hypothesis.

Sources:

White House statement:
https://secure.avaaz.org/whitehouse_internet_statement

Wikipedia joins web blackout in SOPA protest (BBC):
http://www.avaaz.org/bbc_sopa_wikipedia

American Censorship's fact sheet on SOPA:
http://americancensorship.org/infographic.html

Everything you need to know about Congress's online piracy bills in one post (Washington Post):
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/ezra-klein/post/everything-you-need-to-know-about-congresss-online-piracy-bills-in-one-post/2011/12/16/gIQAz4ggyO_blog.html

SOPA and PIPA sponsors caving in to opposition (Talking Points Memo):
http://idealab.talkingpointsmemo.com/2012/01/sopa-and-pipa-sponsors-caving-into-opposition.php

White House will not support SOPA, PIPA (Huffington Post):
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/01/14/white-house-sopa-pipa_n_1206347.html

Controversial online piracy bill ‘shelved’ until consensus is found (The Hill):
http://thehill.com/blogs/hillicon-valley/technology/204167-sopa-shelved-until-consensus-is-found

Again, please add the official text of the bills (to which I linked earlier in this thread) as a reference to at least appear more credible.

As another who is opposed to SOPA and PIPA, I would not like to be associated with this type of rhetoric.

 

[muir]

I'm sorry, but I don't take "crazy shit has happened before" as proof of an outrageous hypothesis.



Again, please add the official text of the bills (to which I linked earlier in this thread) as a reference to at least appear more credible.

As another who is opposed to SOPA and PIPA, I would not like to be associated with this type of rhetoric.

Its not a case of crazy shit has happened before.....look around....its a case of crazy shit is happening right now and has been happeneing for a long time! There are reasons for it

Keep calling 'rhetoric' whilst they take away your freedoms if you want; at some point even the head in the sand brigade won't be able to deny what is going on

 

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[Stu]

I got this from one of my Senators, (whom I supported in the primary, donated money to his campaign and voted for in the general election) It came with a link to sign a petition online which I did.



"As I

 

[Apone]

I'm not supporting this or anything but I would like to see Facebook get taken down, and to be honest, it would be nice to have an excuse to get away from the Internet-- I don't think it makes the world a better place and I think that a lot of people would probably be happier without it.

 

[muir]

Avaaz campaign against ACTA

Dear friends,

Last week, 3 million of us beat back America's attack on our Internet! -- but there is an even bigger threat out there, and our global movement for freedom online is perfectly poised to kill it for good.

ACTA -- a global treaty -- could allow corporations to censor the Internet. Negotiated in secret by a small number of rich countries and corporate powers, it would set up a shadowy new anti-counterfeiting body to allow private interests to police everything that we do online and impose massive penalties -- even prison sentences -- against people they say have harmed their business.

Europe is deciding right now whether to ratify ACTA -- and without them, this global attack on Internet freedom will collapse. We know they have opposed ACTA before, but some members of Parliament are wavering -- let's give them the push they need to reject the treaty. Sign the petition -- we'll do a spectacular delivery in Brussels when we reach 500,000 signatures:

http://www.avaaz.org/en/eu_save_the_internet/?vl

It's outrageous -- governments of four-fifths of the world

 

[Peppermint]

Twitter on Thursday said it has developed a way to filter out tweets that run afoul of certain countries' restrictions on speech

On Jan. 9, Google said that users in some countries accessing the Blogger platform will be redirected to a country-specific Web addresses. The change will allow Google to comply with censorship requests on a "per country basis."