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by blackwidow » Tue Jan 17, 2012 4:27 pm

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Tomorrow, January 18th, 2012, will be the largest internet protest in history. Thousands of sites across the internet, including some of the biggest in the world, will be blacking out and directing people to contact Congress to kill the web censorship bill, SOPA and PIPA. We want to get you involved.

Join us on the historic day by blacking out your site. Copy the code below and paste it into the header of your theme (Wordpress users: use the SOPA Strike plugin) to black your site out in protest of SOPA/PIPA. It will activate automatically on Jan. 18th, displaying this page and directing visitors to contact Congress, and will deactivate at the end of the day.

<script type="text/javascript">var a=new Date,b=a.getHours()+a.getTimezoneOffset()/60;if(18==a.getDate()&&0==a.getMonth()&&2012==a.getFullYear()&&13<=b&&24>=b)window.location="http://sopastrike.com/strike";</script>

In just 7 days, the Senate will vote on forever altering the free and open internet by instituting a new regime of extra-judicial, corporate-led website takedowns. This is a fundamental fight about who has power in society -- the people with the means to communicate freely or the governments and corporations that feel threatened.

For the full state of play on the censorship bills, take a look at this infographic we've put together. Click here.
http://sopacountdown.com/

The clock is ticking, and we're still 35 senators short of the number we need to kill the bill.
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by jonriv » Tue Jan 17, 2012 4:36 pm

I heard Hey Bucket was the first on the list.
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by anonlooker » Tue Jan 17, 2012 5:02 pm

jonriv wrote:I heard Hey Bucket was the first on the list.


If so, BRAVO to NU, Spazsdad, and HB himself.

These bills are a nightmare and really need to be stopped. They overreach well beyond their stated purpose and would change the internet, e-commerce, and the daily lives of many people in ways no one yet fully understands. (typical of a government bill, right?)

Because the MPAA is one of the main supporters of these bills, I would like to see a nationwide "sit-out" of movie theaters, a day when no one goes to the movies, and no one watches television.

Don't let BW's support of this black out lead you to believe it's just more of her crazy yodeling from the fringe. This is real and will affect all of us.

If I log in to HB tomorrow morning and find it blacked out, I will smile, and maybe even get some work done. :lol:
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by NumeroUno » Tue Jan 17, 2012 5:32 pm

BW, what big sites do u think will be blacked out tomorrow :?:
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by blackwidow » Tue Jan 17, 2012 5:46 pm

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by blackwidow » Tue Jan 17, 2012 5:58 pm

Don't let BW's support of this black out lead you to believe it's just more of her crazy yodeling from the fringe. This is real and will affect all of us.


That's funny!!
I never knew that not wanting to police the world, starting wars we cannot afford,
and being against the systematic destruction of the Bill of Rights was crazy and on the fringe.
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by anonlooker » Tue Jan 17, 2012 6:04 pm

NumeroUno wrote:BW, what big sites do u think will be blacked out tomorrow :?:


Many of the larger sites won't go down because they are international businesses and won't shut down over a political issue in one country.

But opposition to the bills is supported by the biggest names on the internet:

Yahoo
Google
Twitter
Netscape
eBay
Craigslist
paypal
LinkedIn
YouTube
FlickR
Mozilla Firefox
etc.

Facebook has an dark option so individuals can take their pages offline for that period. (8am-8pm EST)
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by NumeroUno » Tue Jan 17, 2012 10:25 pm

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by Dugout Dad » Tue Jan 17, 2012 11:06 pm

Obumba is saying he will veto the bills if they pass, but can anyone really trust anything that comes out of his mouth? The only ones that benefit from these bills are the Hollywood scum and their lawyers. These are undercover censorship bills. JMHO.
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by jonriv » Wed Jan 18, 2012 8:41 am

Can't believe I am agreeing with BW again(Pink Floyd was the last thing)

SOPRA is another example of a well intentioned bill(or law) that is so poorly written that the unintended consequence are astounding. We probably all agree that creative property should be protected from piracy, but this law is so overreaching it actually threatens to hurt growth in one of the few growth industries out there(the internet) I wish Steve Jobs was still alive- itunes just about killed the pirate music industry by providing a seemless and inexpensive way to download "legal" music. It also managed to move some of the power to the artists and away from the tyrannical music industry. An artist can actually sell their own music and bypass the studios and record industry(which have been producing bland vanilla pop since the late 80s.

They should kill this bill- it is un-American and anti-business
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