Post by Sp❣rit on Jan 12, 2012 16:45:35 GMT -5
{desc=Stop Online Piracy Act}
Just sayin, the date where they're settling all this crap is coming up. I heard it was on the 24th? Really gross, who knows what'll happen if a bunch of people vote pro-SOPA. This is merely an educational post about what's going on, and what might happen. Derp.
What is SOPA?
SOPA stands for the Stop Online Piracy Act. It is one of two bills being considered by congress today. The other is the Protect-IP Act.
The issues with SOPA:
The Electronic Frontier Foundation describes SOPA as the "blacklist bill" because it would "allow the U.S. government and private corporations to create a blacklist of censored websites, and cut many more off from their ad networks and payment providers."
That means the Attorney General would have the power to cut off select websites from search engines like Google. It could also cut off advertisers and payment processors like Visa from the sites. The Attorney General could essentially kill all of a site's traffic and revenue in a matter of days.
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"SOPA makes it possible for companies to block the domain names of web sites that are simply capable of, or seem to encourage copyright infringement."
I just know that if RP forums get hit, it's gonna suck. I don't think we will, but if its all seen as copyrighted material...it'll suck.
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If you aren't sure of how to help, then maybe just helping spread awareness is a start. I'm a giant derp that isn't registered to vote, and I can't carry my ass over to meet up with a congressman. I wouldn't even know what to say. But you can tell your friends/family about it to realize how screwed we might be. :'D
www.facebook.com/pages/STOP-SOPA/276866175701614
Liking this page on facebook is a start!
americancensorship.org/meet
I also posted this on my own facebook, to at least try to get other people to re-post it or make comments about it. A chain reaction should do the trick.
-derps- I'm sure you guys have more to say than I do.