Google, Facebook, Twitter, Wikipedia, Mozilla, Yahoo, Ebay, Linked In, Reddit and many others are taking action to ensure the internet remains free and open by stopping SOPA / PIPA.
Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and Protect IP Act (PIPA) are bills in the U.S senate and house respectfully, which would allow censorship of the internet. Millions of users including companies such as Google, Facebook, Twitter, Wikipedia and more oppose both SOPA and PIPA. These bills potentially seek to prevent piracy on the internet by shutting down ‘rogue’ websites that allow for the distribution or provide information on or about copyrighted material.
Sounds semi-harmless right? Well it’s not as it opens doors for the censorship of anyone on the net and much more (view below).
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Please sign any / all of these petitions to stop SOPA / PIPA
https://www.google.com/takeaction/
https://donate.mozilla.org/page/s/commit-to-call-pipa
http://americancensorship.org/
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WHY SHOULD I CARE? / WHAT ARE SOPA /PIPA?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=mQI6r_kc3ZE
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I WANT TO KNOW MORE
Google on SOPA / PIPA:
https://www.google.com/takeaction/
Wikipedia has gone black for 24 hours:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
Reddit will go black for 12 hours:
http://blog.reddit.com/2012/01/stopped-they-must-be-on-this-all.html
List of websites / companies on strike:
Mozilla’s Petition (forward):
Everything about SOPA:
WordPress on SOPA / PIPA:
http://wordpress.org/news/2012/01/help-stop-sopa-pipa/
Sources: [Inline]
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