Too much is at stake, tell the US Congress: don't censor the Web.
Today, the 18th of January is the day to let it be known that you oppose two bills currently before the United States Congress.
These bills, PIPA (Protect Intellectual Property Act) and SOPA (Stop Online Piracy Act) have the noble goal of attempting to eliminate the theft of copyright. They propose to do this however, in a manner which will fundamentally break the internet. Imagine a world where Youtube was banned, Minecraft was stopped because a fan made a character out of blocks which loosely resembles a movie star, or MekTek.net blocked USA wide because someone from our community posted their version of a MadCat.
These threats are real, and today we call upon our audience to make themselves heard and let members of the Senate and the House know that while we must all work together to stop piracy, eliminating our freedom of speech on the internet is not the solution.
Actions speak louder than words so please:
- Sign the Google petition.
- Educate yourself about how SOPA and PIPA work.
- Print and mail letters to your state's senators and representatives, urging them not to support this. Physical mail is harder to ignore than email. It piles up. You can find representatives' addresses hereand senators' addresses here. Remember that PIPA is a Senate bill and SOPA is a House of Representatives bill.
- Call your senators and representatives on the phone and urge them not to support the bills. See above links for phone numbers or click here to get a quick list of representatives based on where you live.
Finally, to all of the sites which have taken the extremely bold move of blacking out today - we salute you.
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Posted by ComStar
Jan 18, 2012
