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Thanks for following! But I don’t use this thing anymore.
DELETE YOUR BROWSER HISTORY ON GOOGLE BEFORE MIDNIGHT
Google decided info thievery is a good thing.
http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/320137
Go here, follow the steps, and gain a (mild) victory over Internet fascism.
The Largest Online Protest In History
The text from an e-mail I just received:
Now that Congress has had time to process last week’s internet blackout, a consensus has emerged: SOPA and PIPA are toxic for politicians, and going anywhere near them could cost them their re-election.
Freedom is winning.
Together, we’ve done something amazing— never have so many people stood up to defend a free and open internet. Here’s a San Francisco Chronicle article about how it all came together: The Largest Online Protest in History Started Here.
And here’s Carl Franzen at Talking Points Memo:
“Behind the scenes, Hill staffers from both sides of the aisle confirmed to TPM that the entire piracy debate had become so ‘toxic’ that virtually no lawmakers were likely to be ready to re-engage it anytime soon.”
Experienced Congress-watchers are telling us they’ve never seen anything like this.
Internet users, tech companies, and non-profits joined together to defend fundamental rights on the internet. To a lot of elites in Congress and the corporate world, the internet is just something that lazy teenagers use to spam people with pictures of photoshopped unicorns. The blackout showed that the peer-to-peer internet is about empowerment, and that when we work together we can defeat the corrupt politics of Washington D.C.
The New York Times and Talking Points Memo have both published good articles on how the web blackout was organized.
For months, four senators were the only force blocking passage of PIPA/SOPA. They even promised to filibuster the bill back when most politicians were against them. We need to make sure we support and vote for leaders like them who are willing to going to go out on a limb and oppose SOPA before it was popular to do so. It’s great that we pressured all those other shlubs into opposing web censorship, but these guys deserve the real cred and our support: Click here to donate (scroll down).
What’s next? The Fight is not over, already new threats to web freedom are starting to emerge (particularly in Europe) and we’re getting ready. Stay tuned, and for more updates, follow us on Twitter and Facebook.
Thank you again for standing up for a free and open internet!
- Donny and Fight for the Future
Stop Ireland’s SOPA
It may have been shelved in the US, but it’s hit the shores of the Emerald Isle.
Please, sign this thing - do all you can to kill this affront to privacy and free speech.
SOPA and PIPA may be fought - for now, but ACTA is still at large.
Info:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MBWLVbcjq50
https://www.eff.org/issues/acta
SOPA and PIPA
I am tearing open the black vaults of my dead Tumblr to simply post these links about SOPA and it’s sister bill, PIPA.
The very text of the SOPA bill itself
http://www.govtrack.us/congress/billtext.xpd?bill=h112-3261
PROTECT-IP bill text
http://www.govtrack.us/congress/billtext.xpd?bill=s112-968
For any US based Tumblr-ers (?), here’s a form to fill in to send to your Senator or Representative
http://americancensorship.org/
Black-out your website in protest - today is the start date, i you wanna do it, do it now
SOPA legalese explained simply
Black-out your profile picture on Twitter, Facebook, etc. in protest
Join in the protest or it’s one step closer to living in 1984.
