Friday, December 16, 2011

SOPA: VOTE DELAYED



FROM CREATIVE COMMONS: In case you didn't notice, we're protesting #SOPA: http://creativecommons.org

FROM JOB FOR A COWBOY:
The Stop Online Piracy act ("SOPA") is a terrifying bill. A bill pushing censorship while holding the claim as... http://fb.me/WGEOMwdW

FROM BLOGWORLD: http://www.blogworld.com/2011/11/18/why-sopa-scares-the-you-know-what-out-of-me/


FROM JEREMY JAHNS: The vote on the SOPA bill in U.S. Congress has been delayed until Wendsday (12/21/2011) as perhaps the debate in U.S. congress may go on until 2012. SOPA could criminalize down loaders of digital music and movies and with vague and broader agendas adversly effect constitutional rights, freedoms, privacy and also jobs in internet, web and software design, perhaps the fastest growing sector in world employment. The SOPA bill, if passed, would adversly effect the internet as we know it.
FROM LIONEL WPIX CHANNEL 11: Uploaded by LionelY2K on Nov 4, 2011 LIONEL NY's PIX 11 News Commentary Aired: November 5, 2011 The E-PARASITE/SOPA bills are a travesty to freedom, liberty and common sense. The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) writes, "The bill threatens to transform copyright law, pushing Internet intermediaries—from Facebook to your ISP—to censor whole swaths of the Internet. SOPA could forever alter social networks, stifle innovation and creativity, and destroy jobs." Thanks-Stay Metal, Stay Brutal-\m/ -l-