This isn’t over: Move over SOPA & PIPA - here comes CISPA - internet censorship

yourpatronsaintofdenial:

tumblingondown:

Forever Reblog.

Oh my God.

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(出典: oatmeal)

I’ve censored the following, in protest of a bill that gives any corporation and the US government the power to censor the internet—a bill that could pass THIS WEEK.

[[To see the uncensored text, and to stop internet censorship, visit:
http://americancensorship.org/posts/10110/uncensor ]]


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all1sees:

http://americancensorship.org/index.html#website

this is an email that I received today:

“Last week there was a small meeting at Mozilla to discuss SOPA, the Internet Censorship Bill.

It was eerie.  The DC groups were practically screaming, “this bill is the worst we’ve ever seen and we can’t stop it” — while everyone else had barely heard of it.  The consensus?  We needed to wake people up.

Well, yesterday the Internet woke up.  *You* woke the internet up.

Check out these numbers and screenshots.

To everyone who wrote their rep, made calls, posted to Twitter and Facebooks — and especially to everyone who ran the modal and blacked out their logos, you are courageous and you made history yesterday.  You just took the first step to combine the web’s largest sites, its strongest communities, its staunchest defenders and billions of users into and unbeatable force for stopping censorship.

The scary part?  We still might lose.   Though growing fast, our coalition still isn’t strong enough.

The bill is backed by an unholy alliance of Hollywood, its unions, drug companies, and the Chamber of Commerce.  They are pouring money into it, and they’ve been working on this for years.   Yesterday, big players like Tumblr, Mozilla, Reddit, BoingBoing, and even 4chan came out strong on our side.  Now it’s your turn.  We’ve got to dig in and go viral.

Can you add a “Stop Censorship” message to your blog, Tumblr, Facebook, or Youtube pages?  Click here for the code.

 If you ran “Stop Censorship” or the “Contact Congress” splash on your page yesterday, we humbly ask you to keep it running until this bill is dead, and to find more people who can.  We understand if you can’t, but the bill is just as bad as it was yesterday — so we’ve got to ask.

Click here to get the code to add to your page.  It’s easy.

Yesterday was amazing.  There will be more, we promise.

Homes Wilson 

Fight for the Future

AmericanCensorship.org”

People.

In order to understand how serious this is, here’s an example:  I mentioned Protect IP, SOPA, and the E-Parasite act to my COLLEGE CLASSMATES.  They had NO IDEA WHAT THE HELL I WAS TALKING ABOUT.  Only ONE person HEARD OF IT, but knew NOTHING about it.

Our fight is not over yet.  We may still lose. We have to KEEP. FIGHTING.

http://americancensorship.org/index.html#website

this is an email that I received today:

“Last week there was a small meeting at Mozilla to discuss SOPA, the Internet Censorship Bill.

It was eerie.  The DC groups were practically screaming, “this bill is the worst we’ve ever seen and we can’t stop it” — while everyone else had barely heard of it.  The consensus?  We needed to wake people up.

Well, yesterday the Internet woke up.  *You* woke the internet up.

Check out these numbers and screenshots.

To everyone who wrote their rep, made calls, posted to Twitter and Facebooks — and especially to everyone who ran the modal and blacked out their logos, you are courageous and you made history yesterday.  You just took the first step to combine the web’s largest sites, its strongest communities, its staunchest defenders and billions of users into and unbeatable force for stopping censorship.

The scary part?  We still might lose.   Though growing fast, our coalition still isn’t strong enough.

The bill is backed by an unholy alliance of Hollywood, its unions, drug companies, and the Chamber of Commerce.  They are pouring money into it, and they’ve been working on this for years.   Yesterday, big players like Tumblr, Mozilla, Reddit, BoingBoing, and even 4chan came out strong on our side.  Now it’s your turn.  We’ve got to dig in and go viral.

Can you add a “Stop Censorship” message to your blog, Tumblr, Facebook, or Youtube pages?  Click here for the code.

 If you ran “Stop Censorship” or the “Contact Congress” splash on your page yesterday, we humbly ask you to keep it running until this bill is dead, and to find more people who can.  We understand if you can’t, but the bill is just as bad as it was yesterday — so we’ve got to ask.

Click here to get the code to add to your page.  It’s easy.

Yesterday was amazing.  There will be more, we promise.

Homes Wilson 

Fight for the Future

AmericanCensorship.org”

People.

In order to understand how serious this is, here’s an example:  I mentioned Protect IP, SOPA, and the E-Parasite act to my COLLEGE CLASSMATES.  They had NO IDEA WHAT THE HELL I WAS TALKING ABOUT.  Only ONE person HEARD OF IT, but knew NOTHING about it.

Our fight is not over yet.  We may still lose. We have to KEEP. FIGHTING.

OK, clarification time.

felopez:

In the wake of that 1000+ note post linking this engadget article:

http://www.engadget.com/2011/11/10/senate-to-vote-on-net-neutrality-repeal-today-obama-counters-wi/

Net Neutrality and the SOPA/ProtectIP Bills are different entities.

Net Neutrality deals with the issue of several large companies - namely Comcast and Verizon wanting to become “gatekeepers” of the Internet; slowing traffic to sites they (as Internet Service Providers) don’t like.  And creating a “Fast Lane” for sites that pay them money.

Net Neutrality is important because, without it, the Internet as a free market is dead.  Small start-up siites will not be able to survive, because they can’t pay the “toll” to get into this “fast lane.”

The SOPA/ProtectIP Bills are the bills that create an Internet censorship power within the Government.

The Net Neutrality debates have been raging for months now, and they’ve finally come to a conclusion.  This is good.  But it’s NOT a decision on SOPA and ProtectIP.  They are different.  Completely.

Please reblog this to spread the word and inform everyone.

Guys, that bill has NOTHING to do with SOPA.

westborobaptistcorps:

This link has been going around, saying that SOPA was defeated. It hasn’t been, not yet. They are two different, if somewhat intermingled, issues. And yes, this is a very good thing-but this fight is not over. Seriously. Don’t sit back and go OH, WELL, WE AIN’T GOTTA WORRY ANYMORE. No, you have to worry. You have to be angry. You have to fight.

(出典: fuck-toaster)

SOPA IS NOT REJECTED YET

fireheart14:

socratescloset:

GUYS *** NEWS FLASH

There’s a post going around that SOPA’s been rejected 52-46. This news story is from November 10th. There are no current news stories with any information on whether the bill has been rejected or passed.

I know that we’re all strung out about this Internet censorship deal. But in the name of journalism, can we please check our sources before I reblog something out of stupidity? 

Thank you.

Best Post. Spread the word you guys. It would suck if we lost momentum due to this.

[[How do we contact Tumblr staff to put that link back up on our dashboards??]]

To the SOPA bill:

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to the people who proposed this stupid bill:

because we are all now:

(出典: zwolfenstein)

Guys, we need more than 8000 signatures on the White House's petition of the E-Parasite/Sopa bill. Please reblog and spread this like wildfire.

staff:

Holy crap — you guys are averaging 3.6 calls per second, and rising!

You’re making a real difference. Don’t let up. Spread the word.

thundercracked:

Tumblr and Youtube shut down by the end of 2011

star-machine:

epic4chan:

geek feed:

As the man say: Don’t just reblog this and feel like you helped the world because you’re half-assing it. Sign it. Reblog it. Sign it and reblog it.

I, for one, find Tumblr one of the more reliable sources of information and one of the most up to date. We knew about the content of Obama’s impromptu surprise announcement before he announced it himself, just to name an example. The same difference applies to Youtube, so when I see things like this:

Sssssooooo…the government is enforcing copyright. Without proof or hearing they uproot a UK resident and SHIP HIM OVER to be persecuted in the US. WITHOUT PROOF.

Now we have The IP Act that is on the fast track of becoming a law.

An except that summarizes what this does: “The PROTECT IP Act would allow copyright owners – movie studios and other content providers – simply to accuse a website of infringement, which could lead to that site being shut down by court order and entire links to the site being wiped clean from the Internet.”

I’m going to go out on a limb here and say that if you even pass a disagreeable fart, a big angry fist will punch you in the butthole and seal said butthole forever.

WHERE’S OUR SHIT GONNA GO?

Before:

After:

So the title of this, while an exaggeration of something that hasn’t happened, is a very real possibility and it’s so close to happening.

SIGN THIS SHIT

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Don’t just reblog this and feel like you helped the world because you’re half-assing it. Sign it. Reblog it. Sign it and reblog it.

Also sign this

Sign everything and anything you can.

But most importantly…

Calling by phone is much more effective than petitions or e-mails.

Enter your zip code here and get the numbers to call
(numbers shown on right hand side of page)

Signal boost.  A little suspicious that no one knew about this bill until it’s too late to do anything against it.  Congress withholding information so we can’t protest before a bill is passed?  Probably yes.

This bill is supported by National Association of Manufactures (NAM), the Small Business & Entrepreneurship Council, Nike, 1-800 Pet Meds, L’Oreal, Rosetta Stone, Pfizer, Ford Motor Company, Revlon, NBA, Sony, and Viacom.  That’s a lot of money there that can be “campaign donated” to crush us.  

Opposition includes Google, Yahoo!, LinkedIn, Twitter, Foursquare, eBay, Human Rights Watch, and the Tea Party(surprisingly).  

(出典: dondondadadon)

SIGN!!!!

Sign to stop Protect IP & SOPA! [[Bills that will CENSOR THE INTERNET AND BLOCK OUT FACEBOOK, TUMBLR, TWITTER AND MANY OTHER SITES!!! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v =yDX8Lyl16Qs]

“Stop the E-PARASITE Act.

This Bill would allow essentially allow A Great Firewall of America and would be a shameful desecration of free speech and any sort of reasonable copyright law. The new Law would allow copyright holders to force websites which have any copyrighted material to be blocked by ISP companies around the country, without requiring that the websites be given time to take the offending material down. It would also put pressure on ISP companies to monitor their users like never before, a gross invasion of privacy. This bill is a direct assault on a free internet and a shameful attempt by copyright lobbyists to destroy net neutrality. Essentially it’s a censorship law that would end the internet as we know it in America.”

https://wwws.whitehouse.gov/pe titions#!/petition/stop-e-parasite-act/SWBYXX55

I urge you to sign this petition as opposed to others, as this is the official whitehouse website's petition about SOPA/the bill to restrict internet rights.