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DONT TREAD ON MY INTERNET
Fight CISPA and tell lawmakers that you want a free internet governed and limited by no one!
So you think we defeated SOPA?
January 18th, 2012 - Over 7,000,000 people petitioned Congress to vote “No” on SOPA and PIPA. Many websites including Wikipedia, Reddit, Mozilla, and Google participated in the SOPA “blackout”.
January 19, 2012 - Just one day after a widespread internet protest against SOPA and PIPA, the U.S. Department of Justice seized and shut down Megaupload.
February 26, 2012 - The Canadian website Bodog was seized and shut down by the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agency.
If you still think “we the people” are in charge and as long as we make our voice heard the government will listen to us, think again. The government doesn’t care about you.
Understanding PIPA / SOPA & Why You Should Be Concerned
I went on a Twitter rant today, breaking down what these two bills mean, not just for the average citizen, but for independent bloggers and writers. It’s via Twitter, so you’ll have to read it from the bottom up.
So where do we stand today and what can we do about it? via VentureBeat.com:
The House has pushed back all markup (debate, amendments, rewrites) for SOPA until February. We don’t have an official date for when a vote will take place on SOPA beyond that. PIPA, on the other hand, will be sent to the Senate floor for a vote on Jan. 24.
The best way to make an impact regarding the future of SOPA and PIPA is to contact your local congressperson, as VentureBeat’s Jolie O’Dell previously outlined. Taking our own advice, we also decided to call Congress in this week’s VB Weekly webcast.
