Yes, you read that headline correct. Starting this past weekend, a simple unlock of your iPhone or your Android could get you a hefty fine, and if you plan to profit off selling unlocked phones it could land you in prison for up to five long years, locked up with murderers and rapists and a fine of up to $500,000 all because you want to sign up with another carrier service.
If we’re not careful as a society, we may end up with a closed Internet, regulated by big corporations with only their deep pockets in mind. It was a close call with SOPA, which as a unified front we were able to stop. The wheels never stopped turning after SOPA, as we have encountered ACTA and CISPA. Now it seems the ITU is trying to get in on the Internet, and bring regulations that will harm the openness of the world wide web.
As opposition mounts on the newest piece of legislation that Congress is trying to put through which may violate Internet users rights; one of it’s biggest supporters, Facebook, is speaking out on why they support CISPA.
I’m kind of at a loss of words on this. Here is yet another piece of legislation that is trying to be passed by Congress that violates our basic rights as Internet users. Congress seems hell bent on getting something passed as of late, where some ulterior motive is behind it, which usually means someone other than the congress person is pushing for the legislation because they have a hidden agenda.
The entertainment industry are some sneaky bastards - yeah, I am looking at you RIAA. So, remember the whole SOPA thing where we came together as one Internet to stop the evils of Hollywood bribing lawmakers to track our online activities and shut down sites like Tumblr, Reddit and YouTube?
In the 1998 spy-thriller movie Enemy of the State starring Will Smith as the main character, he is being hunted down by government officials for information he has about a murder that was covered up. The ways in which the government used to find him, through surveillance, tracking and espionage is not a far cry from these Enemies of the Internet we have in today’s online world. And yes, this is a real thing.
News about the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) is starting to gain a lot of traction. I talked about it earlier today, pointing out major concerns expressed by the global community on how harmful this agreement is, on an International scope affecting many countries who have signed on to it, including the United States.
When I first went on SOPA Strike it was just after midnight on Wednesday, with the intention on striking with my custom message up to stop SOPA for 24 hours. I ended up keeping the message up all last night as well, so all in all, it was well over 24 hours of striking the horrible SOPA and PIPA bills. I am happy I did too.
Well, it only took over a 100K signatures on two petitions using the official White House petition tool to get a response from the White House on the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA). I’m sure along with all the other news and fury recently including the petitions, the Obama Administration must have felt the need to finally speak up and make a statement. Thankfully their response is in favor of those that oppose SOPA.
According to the latest report, Iran has taken additional steps this past week in their greater focus to censor the entire Internet for their nation of web users.
The entire web community has denounced the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) in many ways, but the fight continues later this month as Congress should be meeting again to vote on SOPA. In light of this horribly written proposal backed by Big Media, Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) and Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) are now offering an alternative to SOPA called the OPEN Act.
Keeping tabs on those that support SOPA isn’t as easy as one might think. First of all, there are over a hundred known supporters of SOPA, which the list has changed since last published by the Judiciary Committee.
Holy smokes, can this be true? Quite possibly so. There is a video out by Jeepers Media and Mike Mozart that totally changes everything about SOPA. Not only was SOPA bad before, but these new allegations make SOPA very evil.
SOPA has attracted a lot of negativity recently, rightfully so of course. Most recently the 142 organizations that support SOPA which has sparked outrage and people boycotting these organizations.
The news of SOPA has traveled quickly, and even Hitler has found out about it. SOPA is even more evil than Hitler himself, so as you can imagine, he is not happy about it. If you’re not happy about it, maybe you should boycott one of these SOPA-supporting orgs. Many have started already, including boycotting GoDaddy.
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