TAKE THAT CONGRESS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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LightningKit
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Cooperweb wrote (25 minutes ago)
SOPA PIPA!!!! READ.
Sopa and Pipa are dead. The voices of the people were heard.
These were congressional bills endorsed by the giant media corporations who make our movies and record our songs. At face value they were intended to allow the shut down of PIRATING servers that routinely share first run movies and songs.
It is not their intent to close down sites like this, or club penguin or neopets ...etc.
The problem most have with it is how it is worded. In fuzzy terms it could be misused to shut down sites that may criticize the Government, for instance. Or used to block foreign sites such as Al Jazeera and other foreign news agencies.
To be able to do this, even unintentionally, puts us on the same level as countries who regularly censor their citizens' internet. (You know who you are)
Most do not have a problem with stopping piracy, but do have a problem with censorship. As this bill was basically tools created, funded and lobbied for by the media corporations, many felt it was a threat to our freedoms and so a day of protest across the interwebs was held.
These protests caused some main supporters of the bills to reverse their support today and thus there was too little support left for it to get to vote.
Most focus was on Wikipedia's dark page today but I think we all know it was LightingKit's draw that got them scurrying away from the bill. :)
Good job America, on the the next problem.