If you haven't heard of SOPA/PIPA yet, they're two bills that the US Congress is
trying to pass. Basically, these bills will give the American government the
right to censor any website worldwide, on the guise of anti-piracy laws. The FBI
has already killed MegaUpload and could shut down any website that has a link
posted ANYWHERE to a pirating website, including Facebook, Twitter, YouTube,
Tumblr, Flickr, Photobucket and a ton of other user-host websites. The odds of
smaller websites like Blogger or FFN being shut down are pretty good as well.
All I would need to do to shut down this blog or even this website would be to post a link to The Pirate Bay (popular free-download site) or another torrent site. Legislation such as this WILL kill Facebook, Google+, Twitter, or any other user-content website. We can't let this happen.
Wikipedia and Reddit (as you should all know) did a 24-hour blackout in protest of the
bill, and other sites such as the Cheezburger Network, NotAlwaysRight and
various others have had banners looming on their web pages.
Due to fierce
public opposition, the bill has been halted. But it's still alive and the US
Congress could still attempt to pass it, or replace it with an equally-devastating bill. We need to get this plague killed
NOW.
This petition by Avaaz has already gotten the support of over three
million people to kill the bill. Go sign this bill, then post it to your
Facebook/Twitter/email/whatever else and get your friends to sign it. http://www.avaaz.org/en/save_the_internet_...on_center_b/?fp
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