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SOPA and PIPA Threaten Free Flow of Information

The last bastion of freech speech (i.e. the world wide web) is being subjected to a scurrilous attack from the US government in an attempt to censor it.

SOPA and PIPA give the US government the right to attack someone legally for simply downloading or streaming a copyright protected movie, this carries a maximum penalty of up to 5 years in federal prison.

The holywood copyright cartel are using the old copyright infringement excuse to impose these draconian measures.

 

I don't need to tell anyone reading this the importance of keeping the internet free and open, this is first step towards serious internet censorship, the internet has long been the scourge of  tyranny due its incorruptibility as a source of information. All other sources have been manipulated to great effect, even in the supposedly free world information from any major media outlet must be met with scepticism and suspicion, and nowhere is this more true than in the US, but even in Europe very few media outlets can be trusted (that includes the BBC). 

Today Wikipedia, Reddit, BoingBoing, Wordpress, MoveOn.org and Mozilla, creators of the Firefox Web browser have shut down in protest against these proposed laws, you'll notice this if you log onto to any of these sites today. 

 

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This really deserves no arguments, it's a unanimous decision that these bills need to be failed

Just for anyone who wants to add this onto their site:

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Just a nice bit of html I found, blacks out your site in protest, you click once and it goes away. Quite cool.

The companies that support SOPA are dead to me. (Even you, EA and Nintendo.)

Side: all your sopas are full of lye
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US (SOPA and PIPA and whatever), it seems like you'll not only dominate this world in term of military, but also in education...(I'm not praising US). even though SOPA and PIPA isn't directly connected to the US, seems there's something fishy about this

Side: all your sopas are full of lye