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Fight SOPA and PIPA
Dieyou2000:
If this passes no more watching 24/7 streams of Scrubs of The Office on JustinTV. :'(
I think people are being a bit hyperbolic in saying that this will lead to some kind of complete government control of the internet as in China, but these bills are just a plain attempt by major corporations to protect their monetary interests and as somebody who loves to use the internet for pirated/illegal shit and thinks corporations make plenty of obscene profits anyway, I'm against these bills.
Thankfully, I'm fairly certain Obama has already said that if the bill comes to him that he will veto it....correct me if I'm wrong.
These bills started from the MPAA (Motion Picture Association of America) by the way if you want the blatant corporate ties. It's about greedy movie execs being mad that they're losing a bit of their millions of dollars to internet pirates.
Toby:
The US goverment just closed MegaVideo and suing those who were employees.
The anonymous is fighting against them.
MEGAUPLOAD IS DOWN!! Due to S.O.P.A | Help Anonymous with Operation Blackout to stop this!!
Colinwarrior:
--- Quote from: Green on January 19, 2012, 08:39:59 pm ---
--- Quote from: Colinwarrior on January 18, 2012, 11:40:07 pm ---This bill has been around for months, but everyone all of a sudden cares today. Why? because Wikipedia and other sites are blacked out. That's right. In our society, people only care about stuff when it directly affects them.
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On the contrary, most online users have been defending and petitioning for months now. The reason for the sudden increase of activity is because the bill is going to be voted on the 24th of January. This is a final attempt to raise awareness that if it is passed, it won't actually bring any good to the Internet.
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I posted information about it on Facebook months ago and nobody seemed that concerned. I was the only person to post anything about it to date. Yesterday, my news feed blew up with tons of people (especially casual internet users) that were all of a sudden hardline, head-over-heels against this bill. Which most of them probably only found out about yesterday. It's true man. You know it. People don't give a shit unless they are being affected on a personal level. Wikipedia blacking themselves out was probably the best thing that anyone could to fight this bill. Kudos to them.
Flame Outlaw:
--- Quote from: Toby on January 19, 2012, 11:47:24 pm ---The US goverment just closed MegaVideo and suing those who were employees.
The anonymous is fighting against them.
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Thanks for the link man. That was semi-inspirational.. This sets a horrible premise for censorship of the net. Any website can be taken down just because it claims it has copyrighted material.. I'm trying to make everyone I know of this unconstituitonal like behavior. Tell everyone in the IRC, family, friends, and co-workers. Ask them to sign the petition on google https://www.google.com/landing/takeaction Call your congressmen, do something!!
Cyan Elf:
--- Quote from: Colinwarrior on January 20, 2012, 02:28:35 am ---
--- Quote from: Green on January 19, 2012, 08:39:59 pm ---
--- Quote from: Colinwarrior on January 18, 2012, 11:40:07 pm ---This bill has been around for months, but everyone all of a sudden cares today. Why? because Wikipedia and other sites are blacked out. That's right. In our society, people only care about stuff when it directly affects them.
--- End quote ---
On the contrary, most online users have been defending and petitioning for months now. The reason for the sudden increase of activity is because the bill is going to be voted on the 24th of January. This is a final attempt to raise awareness that if it is passed, it won't actually bring any good to the Internet.
--- End quote ---
I posted information about it on Facebook months ago and nobody seemed that concerned. I was the only person to post anything about it to date. Yesterday, my news feed blew up with tons of people (especially casual internet users) that were all of a sudden hardline, head-over-heels against this bill. Which most of them probably only found out about yesterday. It's true man. You know it. People don't give a shit unless they are being affected on a personal level. Wikipedia blacking themselves out was probably the best thing that anyone could to fight this bill. Kudos to them.
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I agree with ya, and same thing happened to me. Months ago I told all my friends/family about this bill and no one cared, well two of my buddies care but still, and now Wiki did there stunt everyone suddenly cares. It just the way people are these days.