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| Topic Started: Jan 19 2012, 01:31 AM (1,010 Views) | |
| Dragoknighte | Jan 19 2012, 01:31 AM Post #1 |
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Alright, I'll keep this simple since the video pretty much sums everything up. SOPA must be stopped. NOW. Here are a few sites to help the cause. https://www.google.com/landing/takeaction/ Stop American Censorship http://tinyurl.com/techdirtsopa http://reddit.com/r/sopa http://www.americancensorship.org http://tinyurl.com/universalcensors http://tinyurl.com/writetocongress http://www.avaaz.org/en/save_the_internet http://t.co/vIhyPU9z http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2011/12/sopa-vote-delayed/ Spread the news as far as possible. We need as much help as we can get. Edit:added more links |
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| Carolina | Jan 19 2012, 01:41 AM Post #2 |
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The fact that this is even being considered makes me feel sick. Should this pass, artists like myself would find it nigh impossible to spread their work in the way they can now. This internet censorship also violates First Amendment rights, that is, more specifically, freedom of speech. I would like to reference Henry David Thoreau in this case, a writer and political activist jailed for his refusal to pay taxes that would support slavery and the Spanish-American War. In his papers titled "On Civil Disobedience," he makes two points that I feel are very relevant. ""There are thousands who are in opinion opposed...but who yet in effect do nothing to put an end to them; who sit down with their hands in their pockets, and say that they know not what to do, and do nothing." This means, you can't wait for anyone else to do it, stand up for yourself. Along the same lines: "They hesitate, and they regret, and sometimes they petition; but they do nothing in earnest and with effect. They will wait, well disposed, for others to remedy the evil, that they may no longer have it to regret." He begins the paper saying that the government is best that governs least. The point of the paper is declaring the line where the people must put their foot down. Many writers, philosophers, and political activists have warned against restricting rights. Acts like SOPA and PIPA restrict rights. This is America, a country that takes pride in its civil liberties. Stand up and protest internet censorship. Promote the right to be free in what you say, express, believe, and post. ...that's my rant. As an artist I feel particularly strongly about censorship, as expression is very important to me. TL;DR: bitch to your representatives and stamp out PIPA and SOPA. oh, and also, I thought this was a good tie-in, if you're a Harry Potter fan. SOPA is to the internet as Umbridge is to Hogwarts. "How about 'progress for progress's sake must be discouraged'? How about 'pruning wherever we find practices that ought to be prohibited'?...It means the Ministry's interfering at Hogwarts." -Hermione Granger, OOTP Edited by Carolina, Jan 19 2012, 01:42 AM.
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| POOHEAD189 | Jan 19 2012, 05:34 AM Post #3 |
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Well written Nikki. I agree. I watched the whole video, and I am in support for rebelling
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| Jay | Jan 19 2012, 06:56 AM Post #4 |
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While I may not have taken part in the blackout that some sites were doing, I was in full support of it. And reading on Wikipedia's page about the blackout, I came across some quotes. This one is the last one on the page:
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You... You DARE call people who want a free internet cyber-bullies?! RRG! I HATE this SOPA business with all my might! In fact, I'm not even calling it SOPA anymore. I'm calling it soup! Some people are just idiots that can't see that soup will do more harm than good. (sopa is soup in Spanish, I've heard, so that is what it is going to be, soup.) |
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| POOHEAD189 | Jan 19 2012, 07:27 AM Post #5 |
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Those soup dicks! Calling us Cyber Bullies is about as accurate as this picture. Spoiler: click to toggle
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| Carolina | Jan 20 2012, 01:39 AM Post #6 |
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Look!![]() Your voice DOES matter; look what we did! |
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| Lusoric | Jan 20 2012, 01:49 AM Post #7 |
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I am scared o what might happen if this does pass but i doubt that it will. The internet is a powerful tool/weapon/device that can accomplish amazing things. |
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| Volksgeist | Jan 20 2012, 08:56 PM Post #8 |
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Both SOPA and PIPA have been dropped from voting by Congress for now thanks to yesterday's protest! Here is the e-mail I got from a Tiffany Cheng:
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| stsenna | Jan 20 2012, 08:58 PM Post #9 |
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I just saw that news on the site of a newspaper we have over here. It shows that the internet is too invaluable to risk losing at the end of the day. |
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| Dragoknighte | Jan 21 2012, 05:21 AM Post #10 |
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I believe this requires a very special song to be sung by yours truly. |
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| Raze1138 | Jan 23 2012, 12:31 AM Post #11 |
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Good riddance. SOPA/PIPA would have utterly destroyed the Internet. It would have made it possible for the US to shut down even foreign sites, and would make sites like RR a FELONY OFFENSE! It is one of the reasons that the only current US presidential hopeful I support, is Ron Paul. |
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| Lusoric | Jan 23 2012, 12:35 AM Post #12 |
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SOPA/PIPA They thought that they could stop us but little do they know that... |
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| Damon | Jan 24 2012, 05:59 PM Post #13 |
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But what next? The issue of piracy still exists, and they'll try and put something else out to combat it. Will it be an intelligent, delicate, precision, legislation? probably friggin' not. |
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| jimjams14 | Jan 24 2012, 06:24 PM Post #14 |
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If they try something else stupid the internet will just have to stand up for itself again. |
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| POOHEAD189 | Jan 26 2012, 04:39 AM Post #15 |
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Well, ACTA just got passed, which is a global SOPA. It seems like SOPA was just a ruse to get our attention away from the true evil. |
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