Google, Wikipedia fight internet censorship
 

www.google.com

www.en.wikipedia.org

If you don't know why then read what they have posted and contact your representatives.

Awesomez~

Good, I have a feeling that we can prevent this bill!

Now if only we tried this for NDAA...

Oh so they did do that

Awesome. Now let's see how knowledgable arguments are for the next 24 hours (well less)

The fact that Obama says "no" to SOPA should help.

Also, the music industry and artists are flourishing more than ever in the face of piracy. Computer games (one of the most notorious forms of pirated media) have become the largest grossing online industry by... being downloaded online. This would never have happened had it not been for online piracy paving the way. Gov't shouldn't intervene too much; they should let things figure themselves out and pan out organically.

But there are formalities that need to be defined. This video featuring Will.i.am, P Diddy, Kanye West, Chris Brown, Jamie Foxx, Kim Kardashian, Lil John, The Game, Floyd Mayweather, Serena Williams, and Ciara is in support of megaupload (a tool notorious for piracy) was posted to youtube. What's funny is Universal Media Group notified YouTube to take this video down and YouTube did just that for 2 weeks, even though UMG never had the right to do so. The artists are affiliated with UMG but this video was made out of their personal liberty. Protocol has to be in place so that YouTube doesn't grant unchecked power to companies like UMG.

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Eff SOPA. When will the Government learns that this is "the Land of Freedom"?

Just shows that you shouldn't mess with the internet.

I'm imagining this:
http://www.hahastop.com/pictures/Save_The_Internet.jpg

srsly though - it would be nice for this not to happen, hopefully it's not futile

Bing is still up, same shit as google.

Obama hasn't said no to SOPA. The administration has simply said they don't agree with the DNS provisions in the current bill. They don't want the technical language to threaten internet security protocols. They haven't in any way said they're against the idea of the bill.

The movie and recording conglomerates need to get with the times. If your customers are shifting the way they want to consume your media then you need to adapt and make it possible for them to do so. The companies are reacting the same way they did to cassettes, VHS, CD's, etc. The sooner they realize that sweeping legislation like this is not the answer, the better.

http://content.usatoday.com/communit...rous-gimmick/1

Yes, using our free speech to protest losing free speech is a terrible gimmick.

Maybe I'm just cynical, but SOPA/PIPA demonstrate to me how out of touch Congress is with reality and their constituents.

I support their efforts, that said for those of you like me wanting to still use wikipedia today, just google search your topic then click on the google cache link for your wikipedia search result ;)

Music and film is opting for protectionism instead of innovation. Screw 'em.