SOPA + PIPA = FUBAR
18 January 2012 04:45 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
delphipsmithUpdate: Lawmakers drop support for PIPA/SOPA - yay!
If you hadn't heard of SOPA or PIPA before today, I'm sure you have now. Major sites like Google, Reddit, Wikipedia and many other smaller sites have "gone dark" today to bring attention to these two potentially dangerous and web-stifling proposals. While piracy is a real problem, this sort of vague and over-reaching legislation is emphatically NOT NOT NOT the answer.
Read more, take action, help keep the internet free and wide open :)
Wikipedia blackout info
What is SOPA?
SOPA 101
Why SOPA And Protect IP Are Bad, Bad Ideas
How SOPA would affect you
Take action!
If you hadn't heard of SOPA or PIPA before today, I'm sure you have now. Major sites like Google, Reddit, Wikipedia and many other smaller sites have "gone dark" today to bring attention to these two potentially dangerous and web-stifling proposals. While piracy is a real problem, this sort of vague and over-reaching legislation is emphatically NOT NOT NOT the answer.
Read more, take action, help keep the internet free and wide open :)
Wikipedia blackout info
What is SOPA?
SOPA 101
Why SOPA And Protect IP Are Bad, Bad Ideas
How SOPA would affect you
Take action!
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