internet protest 24hr blackout

[diveplane]

many sites are shuting offline for 24 hrs or so in protest to what this us goverment is about to try do censor monitor the net.

many are angry and bitter these law bills trying to be passed.

 

google for one

https://www.google.com/webhp?hl=en

 

https://www.google.com/landing/takeaction/

Edited January 18, 2012 by diveplane

[Krebs20]

wiki is down for 24hrs as well. I don't trust the government to do the right thing this time.

[diveplane]

lmao hitler rant on sopa

[PoleCat]

Wake up America!

 

Wake up america!

 

There are two bills that congress is planning to pass that will change the way the interent works in a fundamental way. Can you say...censorship with sprinkles of corporate and governement control?

 

The Bills are called SOPA and PIPA. Read about them and then ACT!

 

I have blacked out my business web site for today in support of stopping these bills from moving forward.

 

 

These two pieces of legislation threaten to:

• Require web services to monitor what users link to, or upload. This would have a chilling effect on innovation;
  
• Deny website owners the right to due process of law;
  
• Give the U.S. Government the power to censor the web using techniques similar to those used by China, Malaysia and Iran; and
  
• Undermine security online by changing the basic structure of the Internet.
  

Your fundamental freedoms are once again at stake. WAKE UP!.

 

Move it or lose it before you have no voice!

 

Out

Edited January 18, 2012 by PoleCat

[Boberro]

Question is not if, but when. Sooner or later it will be voted through. People prefer to watch Dancing with the Stars, crying on The Bold and beautiful than looking at some boring law papers acts.

[RIPTIDE]

I thought SOPA had been knocked back?

[PoleCat]

It keeps getting knocked back but these bastards want it bad and keep bringing it up hoping no one is looking. This will continue until they get their opening. We need to fight hard!

 

It is worth it.

 

Out

[PoleCat]

Question is not if, but when. Sooner or later it will be voted through. People prefer to watch Dancing with the Stars, crying on The Bold and beautiful than looking at some boring law papers acts.

 

Yes once they see they can no longer do what they want and enjoy fundamental freedom any longer on the internet it will be too late. The 1% are cowards and are now very frightened by social media. They want to control everything. Control the internet, stifle freedoms. Sound extreme? Take a good hard look and see if I am speaking the truth.

 

P.S. Don't bother with the purple koolaid over at Fox either. If you are looking for facts there you will find not but propaganda and lies. If you seek "news" and information there you are already lost and helping to carry water for those that will use it to drown you.

 

A recent poll showed that people who get their news from FOX are less well informed than those who watch no news at all. It's time to stop the clown car over there and let all the clowns get out and go home.

 

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[Vekkinho]

I guess our privacy is already compromised, further actions are completely stripping users naked.

 

I even avoid Facebook and any other "social networking" service simply because having many "facebook" friends from my different groups like my work, interests and hobbies doesn't mean I want them to mingle. For instance, why would anyone from my work know anything 'bout anyone from my virtual FC squadron and see into the topics we're dissing bout...

[manfrez01]

For more info check this.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:SOPA_initiative

http://sleepwalkings.wordpress.com/2012/01/18/fight-against-sopa-and-pipa-thats-the-question/

[Falcon_S]

http://boingboing.net/2009/02/17/windows-7-drm-begins.html

[GGTharos]

SOPA has been, but PIPA is still in danger of being presented.

 

I thought SOPA had been knocked back?

[159th_Viper]

http://edition.cnn.com/2012/01/18/opinion/mcdiarmid-sopa-legislation/index.html

[hassata]

It's so funny (well not really) how all these types justify this kind of encroachment of liberties by saying, "oh we would never use that." This guy also wants a system where people can flag content as 'terror-related.'

 

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[Sov13t]

They all should stick their PIPA into their SOPA... and report it as terror-related.

Edited January 18, 2012 by Sov13t

[SmokeyTheLung]

 

A recent poll showed that people who get their news from FOX are less well informed than those who watch no news at all. It's time to stop the clown car over there and let all the clowns get out and go home.

 

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Amen,

 

It seems that the other options aren't much better... True journalism is almost dead in this country. News should be boring! As it stands now all we get is "exciting" gossip. Give me some damn facts!

[Joe Kurr]

I wonder what would happen if everyone put links to banned websites censored content on their websites.

Then they'd have to censor the entire internet, which is near impossible.

[galagamo]

Know whats sad? If it wasnt for google, and other corporations lobbying against it, sopa would have already went through like a fat kid down a slip-n-slide.

[hassata]

Here is what we stand to lose:

a4NCnH7RPZY

[PoleCat]

Amen,

 

It seems that the other options aren't much better... True journalism is almost dead in this country. News should be boring! As it stands now all we get is "exciting" gossip. Give me some damn facts!

 

This is also incorrect. There is fact based professional journalism still alive and well all over the USA it is just nowhere near found on FOX. There is no other network even close to this bad. It is kind of funny because it is always this network that is calling people socialists and Nazis and for some reason the propaganda it produces is closer than any other network in the USA to the type of propaganda spewed by Hitler’s Nazi Germany against the Jews.

 

They are race baiting and enraging the ignorant masses to turn them against and scapegoat large swaths of minorities and the poor who they want you to believe are taking everything from you. Liars. Nothing could be further from the truth. Personally I find the unabashed way the republican candidates were spewing their racist garbage on the FOX debate simply disgusting. The people that applaud them are even worse. Animals.

 

In the face of such ignorance, such insanity, such rage, such hate, and such greed......there must be hope.

 

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Edited January 18, 2012 by PoleCat

[RIPTIDE]

That reminds me... must check to see if The Factor is on tonight. brb.

 

 

 

:D

[PoleCat]

LOL yes, now there is a real source for misinformation. He is wrong so much more often than he is right. Another big mouth blowhard indignant racist bully is just what the world needs.

 

Sixteen dollar muffin my @ss! :megalol:

 

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[Vekkinho]

Yeah, Facebook revolution is OK when happening in Northern Africa but having it in USA or EU is something worth monitoring.

 

What a world...

[Bucic]

If you ever heard about the khan academy you'll going to: 1. Enjoy this. 2. Learn. Actually you will even if you haven't heard of it :)

 

 

I recommend another piece of video as it's always easier to digest

PROTECT IP / SOPA Breaks The Internet on Vimeo

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[Grimes]

Copyright law needs a re-think, plain and simple. It originated in an era when information took weeks or months to travel throughout the world. Now anyone with internet access can see something as minuscule as a single post on a forum nearly the instant it is posted. The purpose of copyright law is to give the content creator the right to make money off of what they create over a set period of time before their content enters public domain. Why is it that as technology allows information to travel faster, the laws have been changed to lengthen the time a work stays under copyright? Shouldn't it be the other way around or at least stay mostly static?