Wednesday, January 18th 2012
SOPA/PIPA Internet Protests Go Viral, Hit Home
The protests to the widely condemned SOPA & PIPA "antipiracy" censorship bills have been a resounding success. They have gone viral with many, many websites blacking out and putting up protest pages, with big players taking part such as Wikipedia, Google, EFF, Reddit, Craigslist, Techdirt (greyed out) and many more taking part. Unsurprisingly, the bills' backers have not shown any sign of backing down (yet) but were prompted to make statements "wondering what all the fuss is about" to play down the damage done to their play for power, since they have recently made changes to them, such as removing the DNS blocking provisions - for now. Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) senior vice president of communications Jonathan Lamy called the protests 'stunts': "It's a dangerous and troubling development when the platforms that serve as gateways to information intentionally skew the facts to incite their users and arm them with misinformation. It's time for the stunts to end and those who claim to care about rogue website theft to back up their rhetoric and work with us on meaningful solutions." This is the same RIAA that sued their own customers with extortionate "settlement" letters remember.
The US Chamber of Commerce has also been a vocal supporter of these bills. Their chief counsel on intellectual property, Steve Tapp thought that the shutdown was strange: "The PROTECT IP Act and SOPA have been modified by their sponsors to address concerns by removing entirely the provision that would have required blocking of criminal sites. Strangely, those who demanded that change are now shutting themselves down, although it is not clear why they are still protesting after they got what they wanted."
So, these people and others like them are clueless over what kind of total control this gives corporate copyright holders over the internet and the kind of damage that it will cause? Sure. Not a massive power grab or anything, then.
If these bills are allowed to pass, then sites across the internet universe are all at risk of being summarily shut down without any warning over mere allegations of copyright infringement. For example, a site like TechPowerUp could be shut down in an instant over mere allegations that a forum member had made a copyright violating post. These are the actions of a totalitarian state, not a democracy and must be stopped dead.
The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) is of course also doing its bit to fight these bills and have posted about it here. Along with information (pdf) about the perils of the bills, they have also linked to a couple of protest sites for people to sign, one run by themselves. For Americans: blacklist.eff.org and one for non-Americans: americancensorship.org/modal/state-dept-petition/index.html
Finally, www.techdirt.com as usual, has extensive coverage of this issue, often from angles one may not have thought of. Well worth bookmarking. PCWorld are also covering this extensively and have an index page of articles here.
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So, these people and others like them are clueless over what kind of total control this gives corporate copyright holders over the internet and the kind of damage that it will cause? Sure. Not a massive power grab or anything, then.
If these bills are allowed to pass, then sites across the internet universe are all at risk of being summarily shut down without any warning over mere allegations of copyright infringement. For example, a site like TechPowerUp could be shut down in an instant over mere allegations that a forum member had made a copyright violating post. These are the actions of a totalitarian state, not a democracy and must be stopped dead.
The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) is of course also doing its bit to fight these bills and have posted about it here. Along with information (pdf) about the perils of the bills, they have also linked to a couple of protest sites for people to sign, one run by themselves. For Americans: blacklist.eff.org and one for non-Americans: americancensorship.org/modal/state-dept-petition/index.html
Finally, www.techdirt.com as usual, has extensive coverage of this issue, often from angles one may not have thought of. Well worth bookmarking. PCWorld are also covering this extensively and have an index page of articles here.
133 Comments on SOPA/PIPA Internet Protests Go Viral, Hit Home
Not much of a history buff and I never will be. However, I dont remember reading about anything of this sort in history books when I was in school.
You never know, something unfortunate might happen to you one day and someone in the TPU community finds out about it and asks that our prayers be with you. Then that person from 2000 miles away might not say that prayer for you. Just sayin. (no that isnt a threat so dont interpret it as such)
Regardless, you could leave the jerking off to your wife and leave it out of your posts as I really dont see a need for it to be in every single one of them. Kinda drives people away and not like you and be more hostile towards you.
As for people not liking me?
I think there would have been a better show of force if some real heavy hitters on the internet would have participated but OH well they had there chance and seeing as most of them are in the pocket of big business any way no wonder they failed the People ! Good luck with every thing NOW the Government of America and Hollywood have full and utter control !
Can you say " Zigg Hale " ???
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:D
"Just did a little search found this interesting read "the Illuminati elite are said to have most of their control through the music industry, which are some of the main lobbyists of SOPA. They seek totalitarian control through the 'New World Order'. Through the media that which they control, they are said to use mind control to make a national consensus that submit people so deep into the mass media that they begin to live in a state of fear which will consequently results in them submitting into what the government is told will 'protect' them in bills such as this and NDAA. The reason SAPO isn't talked about by the media is because obviously the elite doesn't want to deal with the public disapproval for they already control us by means of the television broadcast, and now they are seeking to expand their rule to the internet."
It's also nice to know right after megaupload was taken down anonymous hit some of the big companies. "Anonymous Hackers Hit DOJ, Universal Music, MPAA And RIAA After MegaUpload Takedown." Atleast theres some people who can really have a big influence on how this goes! :)
Anonymous keep up the good work ! :respect:
As far as "mind control"... why else is there fluoride in the water, chemtrail barium in the air, and HAARP. Doesn't matter anyway because the Anunnaki are on the way back to set things straight.
With all these laws and acts it's clear that "someone" is setting the stage for "something". I don't think anyone really knows what that "something" is.
Then you will be like this .