It's time we do something about SOPA

[Blood Fetish]

sarcasm or not its true that they dropped it I'm sorry if every one including most sites aren't up to snuff on this matter but no worries

http://judiciary.hou...s/01172012.html

Straight from the horse's mouth. Not dropped.

They only pretended to table it in a desperate attempt to get people to stop paying attention to the bill so they could pass it quietly.

 

[10_0ARMY]

It shit like this that makes me proud to live in this country....




....edit: please excuse the sarcasm. I hope neither of these bills pass. How can it be right at all to pass laws to censor a resource available for everyone in the world

 

[kaputnik]

I have a question. Is there anything that people from outside of the USA can do about this?

I don't think a non-US citizen calling up a US senator would really do any good. I guess only thing we can do is pressure Americans that we can contact
Something makes me think the bill will pass. Some pretty powerful companies (which don't just deal with computers) are backing it, and don't think what the Internet's word will be heard before theirs.
In any case, this will probably not stop piracy; this concept was brought up and developed by the creators of the Internet (or at least the people who make it advance).

this "law" doenst affect us directly, but in the long run it will hurt all the world because (sadly) 80% of the internet comes from USA

Even worse is that we can't affect this law...

On the other hand, there's a bunch of very powerful companies condemning it too. Also, this is gonna affect a lot of people, enough to make a difference in the next election. I doubt they can get away with passing this in that respect.

Ah well, at least they got the name right. "SOPA" means "piece of garbage" in Swedish :>

By the way, it's funny how this gets more coverage in Swedish media than the EU's similar propositions, even though EU directives, unlike the SOPA, affects us directly. It says something about its assumed influence on the rest of the world if it gets passed.

 

[CannonFoddr]

I'm in the UK - & even I think this is total b*lls**t
A country blocking sites just because it doesn't follow their guidelines on what they think is 'correct'

Whatever next ...bet there's someone saying 'I know !! let's ban all cars (even electric ones) ... It's better for the environment'

This is similar to a while back where in the UK it was considered illegal to even photograph/video your own kids if they were in a school play/show or something similar - without asking the OTHER parents if it was OK first

I'll support it, (although being in the UK I doubt it'll count)

 

[funem]

A referral to http://www.americancensorship.org in signatures, could help.
The stop censorship black bar idea is probably the best thing that non-Americans can do to help out.

I have a link to that in my signature
As well I am going to add this video

It has some great links and information.

Nice vid, posted it to my Facebook page.

As far as I understand it, it has not been dropped its delayed til sometime in Feb. So it is still a threat.

 

[The Catboy]

I am glad to see that people are taking interest in taking action against this unjust law. We can take it down if we work together!

 

[Gore]

It surprises me that this is getting less buzz around here than a new Pokemon release.

Why does that surprise you?
A new Pokemon game is a lot more important than a bill that was never going to pass anyway.

 

[iSubaru]

Now they are trying to make ACTA stuff, it would work same way as SOPA (or mostly as that)
The fun part starts here, in Poland in MANY cities we did massive loud manifestations that we are voting for NO (democracy they say...)
They signed "yes" for ACTA at 26.01 A.D. 2012
Where is that freaking democracy?!

Oh well, like they think they will win the ride...
- T.O.R.
- FreeNet
- Certain Linux distro focussing on anonymous internet browsing

Bring it on...The World...