by Trevor Timm | Electronic Frontier Foundation, Jan. 18, 2013: One year ago today, Internet users of all ages, races, and political stripes participated in the largest protest in Internet history, flooding Congress with millions of emails and phone calls to demand they drop the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA)—a dangerous
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Things Are Good: Declaration of Internet Freedom
Around the world governments are trying to restrain the ability of people to freely share information across the internet. Bills like SOPA in the USA and Bill C-30 in Canada to the more recent TPP all focus on propping up old media monopolies and curtailing people’s privacy and communication rights.
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Child Predator Tax
Look for the latest charge to appear soon on your Bell, Rogers, Telus, (or MTS, or SaskTel) bill by next year when Vic Toews Bill C-30 comes into effect. It may not be labeled as such, but you can think of the price increase as the “Child Predator Tax”. The
Continue readingSkynet : Connecting the surveillance dots
So remember how the Cons withdrew their just-tabled internet surveillance bill, the Lawful Access Act, on Feb 14 and replaced it an hour and 15 minutes later with the identical but renamed Protecting Children from Internet Predators Act, a bill which mentions neither children nor predators? Coincidentally, the US Protecting
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The Internet Blackout – nothing but Hyperbole and a PR Stunt according to the MPAA
Watch, gentle readers, what happens when elite interests are not given priority. The outcry, the wailing and gnashing of teeth, the injustice of it all. The MPAA CEO Chris Dodd called out the irresponsible websites – Wikipedia, Reddit etc on their egregious behaviour: “A so-called “blackout” is yet another gimmick,
Continue readingthe reeves report: SOPA delayed, but Canada’s Copyright Modernization Act carries on
Sums It Up Quite Nicely. | Image from The Guardian.co.uk 18 U.S. Senators have withdrawn their support for the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) due to an overwhelmingly negative online reaction, including a Google petition that garnered over 4.5M signatures and the Wikipedia-led blackout of over 7,000 popular websites. Here
Continue readingProgressive Proselytizing: Lessons from Full Tilt Poker and MegaUpload
Many of us – and that number was shown to be in the tens of millions – who believe that the Internet ought to be a fundamentally free and private place felt something of a sense of shared solidarity at the mass Internet protest that resulted in Congressional and Senate leaders pulling
Continue readingsomecanuckchick dot com: On SOPA + PIPA + [Un]Lawful Access…
Millions of internet users and entrepreneurs already opposed the Stop Online Piracy Act and the PROTECT IP Act (aka SOPA and PIPA), including Google. Why NO SOPA? In case you missed it, somecanuckchick dot com went dark — along with thousands of others — on January 18, 2012 to protest SOPA
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Me, SOPA, and the Internet Revolution
This graphic speaks for itself eh? The day before and the day after the internet revolution. Then Wednesday happened, and suddenly everyone seemed to understand how serious this was. Wikipedia went dark, and the country wailed; we realized how much we have come to depend on the crowdsourced encyclopedia. Google
Continue readingCanadian Progressive World: SOPA defeat: Don’t celebrate just yet
On Wednesday, the Internet won resoundingly against censorship. A grassroots-style online campaign torpedoed Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) an intended internet killing law before the US Congress. And yet, this is not the victory to …Read More
Continue readingThings Are Good: Why We Went Down Yesterday
Yesterday you probably noticed that most of your favourite websites were down yesterday or had a notice up warning you about two bills in front of the American government. Those bills are SOPA and PIPA and essentially if these bills pass the internet would be all but dead to American
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: If This Is The Best They’ve Got…
My daughter just sent me this link. After reading a few of the comments, I couldn’t help but remember Charlton Heston’s famous line from the original Planet of the Apes: “Look on the bright side: if this is the best they’ve got around here, in six months, we’ll be running
Continue readingThe Skwib: Joining the SOPA bandwagon
As someone who loves the web, and needs it, even with its problems, I really hope you guys in the States can stop SOPA. Here’s The Oatmeal’s take on it: Want to help in the fight against SOPA / PIPA? First, go learn about the bills. After that go contact
Continue readingLet Freedom Rain 2012-01-18 01:15:00
http://sopastrike.com/ Image by A Creative Revolution (H/T Dawg’s Blawg)
Continue readingArt Threat: Art Threat will go dark for SOPA Strike
SOPA is the Stop Online Piracy Act being proposed by the US Congress. It is an overbearing, industry sponsored piece of legislation that, in effect, holds internet culture hostage in the name of copyright. Among its worst outcomes, websites will be held legally responsible for copyright infringement of any websites
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