January 18, 2012

Today we are joining in the SOPA Strike in opposition to the SOPA & PIPA legislation in congress. A free society relies upon its peoples' right to freely express themselves and freely access information. Piracy is bad. Copyright infringement is bad. Internet censorship is worse.

To learn more and to find out what you can do, watch the video below and visit AmericanCensorship.org -


Tell Congress not to censor the internet NOW! - http://www.fightforthefuture.org/pipa


PROTECT-IP is a bill that has been introduced in the Senate and the House and is moving quickly through Congress. It gives the government and corporations the ability to censor the net, in the name of protecting "creativity". The law would let the government or corporations censor entire sites-- they just have to convince a judge that the site is "dedicated to copyright infringement."


The government has already wrongly shut down sites without any recourse to the site owner. Under this bill, sharing a video with anything copyrighted in it, or what sites like Youtube and Twitter do, would be considered illegal behavior according to this bill.


According to the Congressional Budget Office, this bill would cost us $47 million tax dollars a year — that's for a fix that won't work, disrupts the internet, stifles innovation, shuts out diverse voices, and censors the internet. This bill is bad for creativity and does not protect your rights.

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