Stop the Internet "Blacklist" Legislation ('S.O.P.A.' bill)

Let's keep this on topic now that it's in SD, please. :|

I really don't mean to argue, it just urks me how you can look over an entire paragraph and go after one minor flaw in a statement.

Welcome to Serious Discussion. I doubt a single one of us have posted in here and haven't had at least one of our posts dissected for even the slightest bit of contradiction and/or idiocy. Not even FPOD and Flaser are immune to getting their asses handed to them, from time-to-time.

That folks, is why I love SD.

There was a video about this on youtube. It was very in depth and informative. Does anyone have the link?

Here's a link to a video I seen

Thanks but that wasn't it. Luckily I found it in my history.
This video should more or less answer some questions people have or at the very least bring them up to speed on what this whole SOPA thing is about.

There is a large gathering on reddit ready to strike against SOPA support... They caused a big issue with GoDaddy just the other day.

SOPA and PROTECT IP aren't going to pass. Obama would shoot it down and even if he didn't the Supreme Court would throw it out in an instant...

Now the root of this? Lobbyists from the major media industries. Course they don't run America, the people do. This is gonna probably turn into the largest debacle in US history if it passes. If it does pass somehow and not shot down, I'm sure that not only would have the US would revolt, but other countries would probably come to help too.

If this is happening than i must imediately get back to my computer download every hentai manga and others and place in a portable hardrive!

Obama is publicly in favor of the ACTA Treaty. Since the USA, Canada, Japan, Australia, New Zealand, Morrocco, etc, have signed the Treaty, that means the Treaty just needs the European Union to sign it as they are a founding member needed to make the Treaty valid. Once all the Founders have signed, it will take life.

The ACTA Treaty is related to SOPA, PIPA, etcetera. That's because ACTA requires changes, deletions, overturning of court precedents, new laws, and funding. SOPA and PIPA satisfies many, though not all, of what ACTA requires and in some cases, SOPA goes beyond the minimum of what ACTA requires. Thankfully, ACTA is not really "alive" until the EU signs it, so ACTA isn't technically requiring the USA to implement a variant of SOPA as of yet. Thus SOPA is much easier to kill NOW than if we waited until ACTA is alive to oppose SOPA. So, it's better to become stridently against SOPA now than to just wait and see.

Anyone counseling patience or ignoring the problem doesn't realize that the other part of the problem is public awareness and "caring about the subject". Thus, a lot of publicity is necessary beyond the normal "common sense level" required only to stir up members within a forum such as this one.

never heard of ACTA thnx for that. the world is now run by fucking multibillion companies. If they take this, what else are they going to take? are they gonna copyright sleep next? -.-

[spoil]
http://romanticallyapocalyptic.com/59

Any thoughts on English Wikipedia shutting down in less than 7 hours for 24 hours?

Good? Bad? Worthwhile? Nuisance?

Worthwhile! But... if they wanted to have peak impact, they should have done it during the biggest window of final exams back in Decemeber/November: then all the voting-age, last minute Wiki using students would see it and get active!

http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/political-animal/2012_01/putting_sopa_on_a_shelf034765.php

S.O.P.A got owned, not indefinitely, but for the next while.

I totally agree with you there. That said, it does seem like the collaborative desire of netizens to keep existing has had some effect, if only for now.

http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2012/01/18/wikipedia-goes-dark-for-24-hours-to-protest-us-web-piracy-bills/

Read more to find out, basically, all I understand is the Government might censor the internet(>~<) Sorry, I just wanted to tell, I know most people know about it and such, but I'm afraid they might take down sites like Fakku!

Vote 'NO' on SOPA

The Wikipedia community has blacked out the English version of Wikipedia for 24 hours on January 18th to raise awareness about legislation being proposed by the U.S. Congress — the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) in the U.S. House of Representatives, and the PROTECT IP Act (PIPA) in the U.S. Senate -- and to encourage readers to speak out against it. This legislation, if passed, will harm the free and open Internet. If you are in the United States, let your congressional representative know what you think of the proposed legislation by clicking here: http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/SOPA/Blackoutpage

--I appreciate your taking the time to read this

Imagine if Google decided to go offline for 24 hours. Now that would be a hell of a protest.

We have many threads about this. Learn to use the search function.

To be honest i doubt that will happen.Doing so will destroy many money-makers like famous porn sites and such.
And there's no way they will let that happen.