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sepdetHere's why SOPA wrecks the internet and most of the websites we use.
They call it the Stop Online Piracy Act, but it's actually the Stop Online Publishing Act.
Think this video and I are being alarmists? Think again. Here's an open letter by 83 of the engineers who helped invent and build the internet begging Congress not to wreck the internet with SOPA.
Journalists are also deeply concerned about news sites being taken down by SOPA censorship.
WRITE TO YOUR REPRESENTATIVES. WRITE TO YOUR SENATORS.
They'll be voting on SOPA before year's end. Right now, they're only hearing from Wal-Mart, Disney, and other big corporations who want to make it easy to take out YouTube, Twitter, Tumblr and other pesky sites with user-generated content, such as Livejournal and Dreamwidth.
I don't normally write to my reps -- I'm shamefully apathetic. But I've done it this time. Please, for love of teh interwebs, take some time out to track them down and tell them. Because, scarily enough, during the SOPA hearings, one rep after another used "I'm not a nerd" (translation: I don't understand how the web works) as an excuse before commenting on SOPA. They don't know ANYTHING. Hollywood's high-paid lobbyists are telling them how this law works, and misleading them about its impact. We HAVE to tell them! In little bitty words lie "Bypasses due process" "kills jobs" "stifles innovation" and "no burden of proof" that even they can understand!
They call it the Stop Online Piracy Act, but it's actually the Stop Online Publishing Act.
Think this video and I are being alarmists? Think again. Here's an open letter by 83 of the engineers who helped invent and build the internet begging Congress not to wreck the internet with SOPA.
Journalists are also deeply concerned about news sites being taken down by SOPA censorship.
WRITE TO YOUR REPRESENTATIVES. WRITE TO YOUR SENATORS.
They'll be voting on SOPA before year's end. Right now, they're only hearing from Wal-Mart, Disney, and other big corporations who want to make it easy to take out YouTube, Twitter, Tumblr and other pesky sites with user-generated content, such as Livejournal and Dreamwidth.
I don't normally write to my reps -- I'm shamefully apathetic. But I've done it this time. Please, for love of teh interwebs, take some time out to track them down and tell them. Because, scarily enough, during the SOPA hearings, one rep after another used "I'm not a nerd" (translation: I don't understand how the web works) as an excuse before commenting on SOPA. They don't know ANYTHING. Hollywood's high-paid lobbyists are telling them how this law works, and misleading them about its impact. We HAVE to tell them! In little bitty words lie "Bypasses due process" "kills jobs" "stifles innovation" and "no burden of proof" that even they can understand!
