Lots of sites going dark in protest of the Internet control freak legislation in the U.S. aka SOPA/PIPA. The Oatmeal has provided a handy animated GIF and asks everyone to “please pirate the shit” out of it. Okay then…
Wikipedia has gone dark but has provided a special page to provide Americans with the necessary information to contact their Congresscritter.
One site is protesting in support of SOPA/PIPA (tongue-in-cheek):
And with video.
Meanwhile, Libs & Dippers here in Canada are just itching to censor stuff they don’t like — truth be damned.
UPDATE: Deaf and Dumb Democrats… Even their support base knows it — the money quote:
You have an entire wired generation focused on this issue like a laser, fighting like hell to protect their online freedoms, and it’s FUCKING REPUBLICANS who are playing the heroes by dropping support?
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I’m sure you’ve heard the details of Wikipedia’s blackout in protest of Internet censorship (SOPA and PIPA in particular), but if you haven’t, here’s an article that I read today which summarizes everything perfectly: http://www.pressdisplay.com/pressdisplay/showlink.aspx?bookmarkid=HAIXJA7GW5U4&preview=article&linkid=f8d9fb9e-2af4-4b3c-acd1-89ecd53d0d67&pdaffid=ZVFwBG5jk4Kvl9OaBJc5%2bg%3d%3d Cheers!
This is so very important!
The proponents of SOPA call all those who oppose it ‘pirates’ and ‘IP theives’ in order to discredit us in the eyes of the general public, much as the HRC’s and their apartchiks call their opponents ‘hate-mongers’ and ‘neo-nazis’….
Unfortunately, this tactic is way more successful than it ought to be by now! Freedom of speech is being threatened from many directions – but it is the same fundamental principle that is being assaulted!
Agreed, Xanthippa. And I believe most people who do business online do NOT support SOPA/PIPA — The Oatmeal, for example, even though he’s dealt with people stealing his work. (And my hubby to name another.)
I read one such supporter of this offensive censorship legislation claiming we’re the ones who misunderstand what it means. NO – I do understand, and it means censorship through the removal of due process.
On a somewhat related note, I remember many years ago when hubby and I were taking a web design course, a fellow student asked, “How do you keep someone from stealing your work?” He answered, “Don’t put it on the internet.” He was trying to say that you can go to all kinds of trouble to protect your own data/images, but if it’s on the internet, it can be pirated. His belief it’s part of the cost of doing business.
It is a simple matter to stop corporate movie pirating but this law was a gateway law to set up Internet II. I-2 is envisioned as being a totally regulated, censored and filtered internet similar to the cable system. The FCC and CRTC have been yakking about this for some time.
Yes agreed, this IS important, but it is so much larger than just censoring free speech. We are seeing the common link in ALL bug governments, whether they be fascist, communist, a Junta or a modern democracy with a leviathan government, ALL governments want to CONTROL INFORMATION FLOW TO THE PUBLIC! It is a genetic trait of big government, along with their lists and files and snooping and surveillance and need to know what we are saying/thinking and controlling this. It’s the genetic need of big government – to protect itself from us and to design systems of continuity of authority which supersedes mandate or constitutions.
Does it not send a shiver through your spine that this government agrees with Communist China when it comes to internet censorship/control? That’s because all big governments have unstated agendas which makes them paranoid of the people – afraid we may find out true governing agendas- and this makes them distrust us and look for every way to control and surveil us.
Never was there a truer maxim than “fear the government who fears its citizens and distrust the government which distrusts its citizens” Internet regulating is all about distrust and fear of the citizenry. The big rumble is getting closer.
But, but I really LIKE her!
http://i.telegraph.co.uk/multimedia/archive/01884/royal-pippa-3-way_1884302b.jpg
Tsk, tsk.
Dr. Dawg with his delusions of grandeur decided to go dark on the marked date as well, and then taunted me on twitter the next day because he wasn’t getting enough traffic. As if little ‘ole me could bring more attention to that bitter old fart, and as if his feed is as big as the sites who blacked out. What are we talkin’ about here, “Boing Boing” and “Wikipedia?” Ya, I’m sure the real Dr. Dawg, the hotdog franchise in the US who are upset with his appropriation of their logo, would wish he’d just go dark permanently so that when folks search for Dr. Dawg online, they’ll get access to the business site, and not some offensive lefty oaf.
*Snort* – I can understand large sites with mega-traffic joining the protest, but Dawg? Yep, delusions of grandeur is right – LOL.
My protest consisted of this posting, and to pirate The Oatmeal — with his permission & urging (see above).
I know. Reposting your Oatmeal gif and linking to my original SOPA post is about it. Barrack Hussein Long Legged Mack Daddy Obama might just go ahead and make this legislation happen anyway, ’cause his popularity can only continue to go in one direction…past that of Jimmy Carter into a level of measured only within a black hole.
“when folks search for Dr. Dawg online” *shock* Someone would do that? Why?
I doubt it happens very often unless he’s self-searching to see what others are saying.
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