1.25.2012

SOPA and PIPA

I got an email from a friend who's club I was in. I want to share it.
"Dear Four Corners,
Some big legislation is going down. The US Gov wants to restrict internet privileges for sites. Im not the most informed on this issue but it seems SOPA and PIPA legislation are worth knowing about.
Learn about your world.
Contact your Representatives.
Resist the Censorship of our Internet.....

Blessings from,
Kyle

Below is text copied from Wikipedia.....

Call your elected officials.
Tell them you are their constituent, and you oppose SOPA and PIPA.
Why?
SOPA and PIPA cripple the free and open internet. They put the onus on website owners to police user-contributed material and call for the blocking of entire sites, even if the links are not to infringing material. Small sites will not have the sufficient resources to mount a legal challenge. Without opposition, large media companies may seek to cut off funding sources for small competing foreign sites, even if big media are wrong. Foreign sites will be blacklisted, which means they won't show up in major search engines.
In a post SOPA/PIPA world, Wikipedia --and many other useful informational sites-- cannot survive in a world where politicians regulate the Internet based on the influence of big money in Washington. It represents a framework for future restrictions and suppression. Congress says it's trying to protect the rights of copyright owners, but the "cure" that SOPA and PIPA represent is much more destructive than the disease they are trying to fix."

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