Ok, so this is it folks. It’s about half hour past midnight EST my time, January 18, so my SOPA STRIKE starts now. This will be my last post for the next 24-hrs so that I can stand in solidarity to protest the SOPA and PIPA bills. I have added a huge message to this blog so that anyone visiting will see it. I ask that you please read it, do your part and please share it on all your social networks to help get the message out.
Now this is funny! Look who is acting like a little kid who didn’t get their way and is now throwing a hissy fit. It’s the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA). They have spent millions of dollars lobbying Congress to push SOPA and PIPA so that they can finally have all the power they need, and now that the Internet is reacting in unison to fight back, the MPAA is starting to panic.
This is cute, a propaganda-esque poster to help spread the word about SOPA and PIPA. Created by 21st Games, they took the time to create this neat poster before the Jan18 black out tomorrow. Help save our memes, and stop SOPA!
Great news on the SOPA Protest front; Google made a statement that they will be posting a message on the Google home page (search page) with information on SOPA, hopefully drawing even more light to the SOPA and PIPA bills that are going to be protested tomorrow, January 18.
It looks like Wikipedia just confirmed that the huge Internet resource and information website is going to do a blackout on January 18 in protest of the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA). Founder of Wikipedia Jimmy Wales sent out a tweet a couple of hours ago saying “Student warning! Do your homework early. Wikipedia protesting bad law on Wednesday! #sopa.”
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.
Hey Congress, yeah you — you broke Reddit. You will break the rest of the Internet too if you aren’t careful. What’s this about you say? It’s about the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA). In a blog post earlier today, Reddit made the very tough decision that on January 18 they will go black in protest of this piece of legislation.
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.
I was reading a thread earlier on Reddit where some users had a great idea. Why not boycott the supporters of SOPA? Right now, whether SOPA gets passed or not is out of our hands and in the hands of lawmakers in Congress.
Internet censorship in the U.S. is still a real fear and possibility as the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) is still under consideration. The House Judiciary Committee was supposed to make a decision on it last week, then decided to post-pone until after winter break and reconvene in January citing they need more technical expert opinions before they can come to a vote. That is good news.
Today is the day. The Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) or as I like to refer to it as, the Internet Censorship bill is being voted on and we should know if it gets passed or not. There isn’t much more that can be done at this moment other than to wait. In the interim, we should ponder, what would the Internet look like if SOPA was passed? Here is one interpretation that really hits home. If SOPA was passed, Google Search results would most certainly look like this this. Well done, very well done.
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