Stealing our rights in the name of freedom.
Crushing our protesters in the name of national security.
Where will it end?
Source: covertress.blogspot.com
Losing the Freedom of the Internet
The Congress and the House of Representatives have come up two separate bills to further curtail our freedoms. I guess it is just too hard for the poor peeps to tackle something important, like sending jobs overseas, corruption on capitol hill, the environmental dangers posed by fracking and the XL pipeline, climate change, the disappearing middle class, etc.
Oh, but they have time to write the bills that will take away the few pleasures left to the public that is struggling to work, live and pay taxes.
Congress is about to pass Internet censorship, even though the vast majority of Americans are opposed to it. We need to kill the bills - PIPA in the Senate and SOPA in the House - to protect our rights to free speech, privacy, and prosperity.
S.968 - PROTECT IP Act of 2011
PIPA - Establishes process by which a website is taken down because the Justice Department (DoJ) says the site is conducting infringing activities. The DoJ or the copyright owner would begin legal action and the DoJ could demand that search engines, social networking sites and domain name services block access to the targeted site.This could all be done without anyone being heard by a judge.Stop Protect IP Adresses (PIPA) - Read the bill here.
H.R.3261 - Stop Online Piracy Act
SOPA - Basically the same as PIPA, with some additions: . . . against any site they deem to have "only limited purpose or use other than infringement," . . . It would also make unauthorized web streaming of copyrighted content a felony with a possible penalty up to five years in prison. This bill combines two separate Senate bills -- S.968 and S.978.Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) - Read the bill here.
People are saying these bills will break the Internet. In protest many of the large websites, like Wikipedia are "blacking out" their websites tomorrow 1/18. I have decided I will add this post to all my blogs as a public service announcement,
Click the infographic below to take action.
Do it today.
2 comments:
I post the pics
Nevertheless, the hard core of American civil liberties—your right to speak your mind, especially to dissent from government policy, without looking over your shoulder—still seems pretty robust. Counterexamples exist, but they are pretty rare and mild.
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