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Date: January 15th
SOPA- Internet Interference by the Government
 


SOPA- Internet Interference by the Government

and we wonder if the government and the rich are making preparations to take over the American society

 

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Corporations whose lobbyists drafted SOPA and PIPA want the ability to block you from reaching any web site they feel hurts their profits without due process, or review in any court by hijacking DNS (!) and censoring search results. Hoping you wont notice until its too late, Congress is preparing to give them that right.

For example, Monster Cable considers craigslist a rogue site for takedown under PIPA they want to prevent YOU from selling YOUR unwanted cables, by removing craigslist from the Internet entirely, so they can increase their sales of new cables! Many other rights holders want to be able to do the same. (Boycott anyone? Theres an app for that.)

SOPA/PIPA authors and supporters insist theyre only fighting piracy, but Internet Engineers understand that this is an attempt to impose China-style government control over our public Internet. Hmmm, who should we believe?

Let Congress know you OPPOSE H.R. 3261 Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and S. 968 Protect IP Act (PIPA):

Supporters of SOPA: RIAA, MPAA, Nike, Pfizer, Walmart, Tiffany, Chanel, Rolex, Sony, Juicy Couture, Ralph Lauren, News Corp, VISA, Mastercard, Comcast, Time Warner, ABC, Dow Chemical, Monster Cable, Teamsters, Rupert Murdoch, Lamar Smith (R-TX), John Conyers (D-MI)

Opponents of SOPA: Google, Yahoo, Wikipedia, craigslist, Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, eBay, AOL, Mozilla, Reddit, Tumblr, Etsy, Zynga, EFF, ACLU, Human Rights Watch, Darrell Issa (R-CA), Ron Wyden (D-OR), Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), Ron Paul (R-TX)

Where does your Member of Congress stand on SOPA? (Project SOPA Opera)

SOPA and PIPA Are Too Dangerous To Revise, They Must Be Killed Entirely

Congress needs to hear from you, or these dangerous bills will pass they have tremendous lobbying dollars behind them, from corporations experts say are attempting to prop up outdated, anti-consumer business models at the expense of the very fabric of the Internet recklessly unleashing a tsunami of take-down notices and litigation, and a Pandoras jar of chilling effects and other unintended (or perhaps intended?) consequences.

There is still time to be heard. Congress is starting to backpedal on this job-killing, anti-American nonsense, and the Obama administration has weighed in against these bills as drafted, but SOPA/PIPA cannot be fixed or revised they must be killed altogether.

Sen Darrell Issa (R-CA) and Rep Ron Wyden (D-OR) are championing an alternative to SOPA/PIPA called Online Protection and Enforcement of Digital Trade Act (OPEN) that focuses on cutting off payments to foreign sites dedicated to piracy, and refrains from disrupting basic Internet protocols, or threatening mainstream US sites like craigslist.

Tim OReilly, a publisher who is himself subject to piracy, asks whether piracy is even a problem, and whether there is even a legitimate need for any of these bills.

Learn more about SOPA, Protect IP (PIPA), and Internet Blacklisting:



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Date: January 16th
 

When I was young, I was taught that there would eventually be a huge take over by those in control, and all of the eaters and breeders would be corralled and controlled. Eaters and breeders are all the people who are not in control. I have always dismissed this talk as nothing more than the rant of narcissists who were consumed by their own desires. However, as things have been progressing since the first of the year- I must wonder if this is not somehow true.

The fact that our government signed papers that enable it to detain people indefinitely without due process during the past holiday, pretty much in secret as the media didnt bother to cover it, was bad enough- but now with SOMA, and the fact that our government wants to hand control of the internet over to big business is another sign that there is a huge push to control the info that is being delivered to the people. Controlling information has been a priority of our government for years- as we have basically dumbed down the schools with No Child Left Behind to the point that 50% of graduating seniors are not at a proficient reading level. All of this has been largely ignored by our media- which is controlled by the rich.

Keeping the people ignorant- the same type of behavior that happened in Omaha in the 80s is happening on an even larger scale today in America as a whole. Controlling the media and the info that the people are exposed too- it allows our elite masters to do what they wish, without anyone being able to offer any kind of dissent. Cracking down on the freedom of the internet is just one more example of our government trying to take over and control the masses. Eventually- someone is GOING to take advantage of all of this- and I fear that we will see a reenactment of what happened in America at the when we began to arbitrarily detain Japanese citizens after Pearl Harbor, or, better yet, what happened in Germany during the same war. This time however, it seems that our leaders want to do it on American soil. At a time when no one else in the world wants to save us, so if we start to enact- say, work camps for those who cant pay their bills, none of us can expect that Calvary to ride in and save us. Unfortunately- that is up to us.

The question is- will we allow this to happen quietly and without incidence- or will we do what is necessary to bring America back in line to helping its citizens rather than hindering them? We must do more than just vote- we all must become INVOLVED! The world will not change unless we all unite to change it together. Can we do it? It remains to be seen- but one thing is for certain; our government is busy planning something, and if we dont start standing up soon, time might just run out.

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