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Mozilla urges its users to raise their voice against SOPA
- Indyan 15y agoMozilla is rotating this call to action on its browser homepage (about:home), which is heavily trafficked.
- zerostar07 15y agoCoincidentally, "Sopa" in Greek means "Silence!" [or "shut up!"]
- rbanffy 15y agoIn Portuguese, it's "soup", which also is a somewhat archaic slang for something that's very easy.
- yesbabyyes 15y agoIn Swedish, it's "piece of garbage".
- sabret00the 15y agoI wish they would've done the same thing for the Digital Economy Bill in the UK.
- sycren 15y agoyeah we only had 20,000 letters sent in by consumer groups and a huge twitter campaign #debill. All that meant was a discussion where the MP in charge of the bill thought that the IP address meant Intellectual Property address and all of Labour turning up for 5 mins to vote it through before the general election..
- maximusprime 15y agoThere's a few enquiries into the bill (Ofcom, parliamentary enquiry etc). I believe the current government is pretty opposed to it (Conservatives and Lib Dem both value the individuals freedom). Also since the majority of ISPs are completely opposed to it I doubt it'll ever get enforced. Peter Mandleson is an evil evil person though.
- kpozin 15y agoIf only Google or Facebook would use their homepage status to get the word out to the majority of the population. A blacked-out Google Doodle or a notification at the top of the Facebook newsfeed would go a very long way.
- cfontes 15y agoIndeed... I am from Brazil and I wish i could help in someway, because this are terrible news.
- Alex3917 15y agoIt's a sad day when Google apparently cares less about social justice than YouPorn. edit: I withdraw my criticism, see below.
- dylangs1030 15y ago? Google is the largest company standing in public opposition to the SOPA bill, and has publicized its concerns at the hearings.
- Alex3917 15y agoFair enough, and I saw their newspaper ad also. That said, I think any real attempt at killing this bill needs to include a show of grassroots opposition, not merely trying to out-hollywood hollywood with money and public testimony.
- gabaix 15y agoListening to Google right now at the hearing. They do a pretty good job educating the room with the problems with this bill.
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- iamandrus 15y agoUnfortunately I doubt Facebook will even mention the SOPA law. Google might put a small piece of text on the bottom of the home page about it, but even then that's a big "maybe."
- law 15y agoFor all those who are interested, http://judiciary.house.gov/hearings/hear_11162011.html http://judiciary.house.gov/hearings/hear_11162011.html is the link to the hearing's webcast, which began at 10 a.m. EST.
- gabaix 15y agoJust watched for 30min. It looks they all agree the Internet needs to be controlled.
- subpixel 15y agoTo explain this to friends & family, tell them to watch this video: http://vimeo.com/31100268 http://vimeo.com/31100268 - or just the part from 1:08-2:31
- NanoWar 15y agoAre there online petitions in the US?
- jen_h 15y agoIf you're in the US, contact your representatives. Email from EFF's site: http://wfc2.wiredforchange.com/o/9042/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=8173 http://wfc2.wiredforchange.com/o/9042/p/dia/action/public/?a... Email from OpenCongress: http://www.opencongress.org/contact_congress_letters/new?bill=112-h3261&position=oppose http://www.opencongress.org/contact_congress_letters/new?bil... Snailmail from SendWrite: https://sendwrite.com/sopa/ https://sendwrite.com/sopa/ Petition from DemandProgress: http://act.demandprogress.org/sign/pipa_house/ http://act.demandprogress.org/sign/pipa_house/ And there's good, old-fashioned phone calls: http://www.contactingthecongress.org/ http://www.contactingthecongress.org/
- mrchess 15y agoIs it too late to do any sort of petition since the hearing is today?
- kumar303 15y agoNo. The congressional hearing only just started, no voting yet. Now is a good time to call your US rep (if you live in the US) http://www.contactingthecongress.org/ http://www.contactingthecongress.org/ . I was surprised that several of my IL reps did not have a stance on the issue! Calling is better than emailing. I know, it's a backwards system.
- mseebach 15y ago> several of my IL reps Is that a Chicago politics thing?
- TillE 15y agoTwo Senators, one Congressman. If you live in one of the 50 states, you have three federal lawmakers who represent you. If you have multiple residences or an office in another district, you might have more relevant congresscritters who you'd want to call, even if you can't directly vote for them.
- silentific 15y agohttps://supporters.eff.org/thanks/thank-you-opposing-internet-blacklist-bill https://supporters.eff.org/thanks/thank-you-opposing-interne... "The service is not available. Please try again later." :/
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- VladRussian 15y agothe more government oppression applied to the Internet - the sooner a government oppressure resistant alternative would emerge. The current Internet is a great thing, yet it is fundamentally flawed by being that vulnerable to any whimse of concentrated political and economical interest. While it can't be presicely described how the future free Internet would look, it is possble to imagine some modern implementation of something like the old Fido network with a set of satellites and cables/floats in the international space and waters and the next generation WiFi that will have on the scale of couple orders of magnitude greater range.
- InclinedPlane 15y agoDecentralization. Imagine something like a mashup between bittorrent, usenet, and TOR (store & forward + P2P) integrated into a web browser client front-end. This sort of thing has been on my mind for years now, but it never occurred to me that it could actually be a necessary invention for maintaining a free and open internet in the developed world.
- sp332 15y agoCheck out this project: https://freenetproject.org/ https://freenetproject.org/
- rcthompson 15y agoIf someone asks you what SOPA stands for, you can tell them it's the "Stop Online Privacy Act". It's only a Hamming distance of 3 from the real name.
- fwenzel 15y agoDo you mean Levenshtein distance :)
- scubaguy 15y agoI can't wait for someone to post a link to the Pirate Bay in the comments, thereby providing legal justification for taking down sites that criticize SOPA.