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Oppose Internet Censorship: Help Defeat the Stop Online Piracy Act
Mulligan:
I personally think signing petitions and writing letters to politicians is a total waste of time since the politicians are so closely tied in with the business interests and lobbyists who keep them in office.
It seems to me that our time is much better spent publicizing via forums and blogs and emails what the settlement demand snakes are trying to do and how websites like ELI provide information and tools individuals can then use to successfully fight and defeat those who pervert outdated copyright laws to try to extort money from small designers, bloggers, and website owners.
Robert Krausankas (BuddhaPi):
I tend to agree, however the more we collectively share to outside sources, not only do we ghet more exposure, we also enhance the chances of our plight being picked up by more streamlined and reputable news outlets..that will give us more leverage as a whole.
Bekka:
The lastest on SOPA!
http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20120108/00533117331/study-confirms-news-networks-owned-sopa-supporters-are-ignoring-sopapipa.shtml
I am hoping since Nancy Pelosi has come out against it, there may be a chance this bill will die or be defeated.
Katerina:
This bill caused a lot of protests, and I read in a newspaper today that it loses its support from lawmakers. Wikipedia didn't work for about 24 hours, Google had a black bar on "GOOGLE" letters, Craigslist was all black and just was flashing about PIPA and SOPA. It all came to public attention. So, hopefully, this bill will not go through. Otherwise, this will be a nightmare.
Mulligan:
Unless millions of Internet users continue to tie up the politicians' phone lines, email boxes, and postal boxes with vigorous complaints, you can be sure the big companies who profit so much on the out-dated copyright laws will return again and again to our "lawmakers" with SOPA and PIPA clones until they get what they want.
Here's a link to a story that shows what could happen to all webmasters (as well as innocent users taking advantage of cloud storage) at any time if anything like SOPA or PIPA ever gets passed:
http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/story/2012-01-19/megaupload-feds-shutdown/52678528/1
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