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===We are working on a new app that actually works. It will allow you to make your own communities to boycott companies that oppose your ideals, and see profiles of products and how they align with your values. Check back in September for a link to the new web tool and Android application. Hate SOPA? 6 things you can do to stop it. Progress against SOPA. When I did my blog post about the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) last week, things looked quite grim.
The fight isn’t over, but there’s been a lot of great developments in the last few days. If you’re not familiar with SOPA (and the PROTECT IP Act in the Senate), here’s a video that covers the basics: This internet censorship under SOPA editorial by Rebecca MacKinnon also describes why SOPA would be really bad for the internet. I also wanted to take a minute and thank everyone who called or wrote their Congressperson to speak out against SOPA and PROTECT IP.
As a result of people speaking up in the last few days, a lot has happened: - Republican Representative Darrell Issa and Democratic Representative Nancy Pelosi came out against the bill. . - On the Senate side, Maria Cantwell, Jerry Moran, and Rand Paul all came out against PROTECT IP. - The European Parliament passed (by a large majority) a resolution criticizing SOPA. . - Sandia National Laboratories, a part of the U.S. What you can do? Take Action. The Internet blacklist legislation—known as PROTECT IP Act (PIPA) in the Senate and Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) in the House—invites Internet security risks, threatens online speech, and hampers Internet innovation.
Urge your members of Congress to reject this Internet blacklist campaign in both its forms! Big media and its allies in Congress are billing the Internet blacklist legislation as a new way to battle online infringement. But innovation and free speech advocates know that this initiative will do little to stop infringement online. What it will do is compromise Internet security, inhibit online expression, and slow growth in the technology sector. Read More. SOPA - Keep calling. Whoismyrepresentative.com. American Censorship Day is this Wednesday — And You Can Join In! Stop SOPA. Send Congress A Physical Letter In Just A Few Clicks. The web community is currently in an apprehensive uproar over the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA), which threatens to create an Internet blacklist that operates at the DNS level in a misguided attempt to curb piracy.
It’s bad news — many of Silicon Valley’s largest tech companies are speaking out against it, and Google Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt just went on the record calling it draconian and censorship. Now the folks over at SendWrite, a startup that makes it easy to quickly send people physical letters (no stamp-licking required), is offering to extend its services to anyone who would like to send their Congressperson a real, physical letter denouncing SOPA. Free of charge. The service is easy to use: go to this page, select your congressperson from the drop-down menu, and fill in a personal message (it gives you a rough outline on what you should consider including, as well as some additional tips). We The People Petition for veto. Paul Graham: SOPA Supporting Companies No Longer Allowed At YC Demo Day.
At this point quite a few internet companies have protested H.R. 3261, the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) in creative ways.
Held by many to be the worst thing to ever happen to the Internet if it passes, SOPA would makes it really easy for copyright holders to force sites offline that they think are offending, among other things. While the judiciary vote has been delayed until next year, the list revealing the companies who support the act was released yesterday, and many startups, such as Reddit, have begun to drill down into boycotts of individual companies like domain provider GoDaddy. The company boycotts have sparked a thread on Hacker News, where user Solipsist posted a link to the list with the comment, “While I understand your sentiments towards SOPA, are you really going to distance yourself from all of these companies?” To which YCombinator founder and investor Paul Graham replied, “Actually that’s exactly what I thought when I saw the list yesterday.
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I’m Boycotting GoDaddy because they are pro-SOPA. [edit: apparently GoDaddy changed their stance according to TechCrunch] Well-Armed Lambs: The Real Way To Get Congress To Understand SOPA. Benjamin Franklin is said to have once described democracy as two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for dinner.
Liberty, he went on to point out, is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote. This one is for my fellow lambs, those of you dismayed over the legislative sausage-making that’s resulted in SOPA, PIPA, and Washington’s willingness to put the entire Internet at risk in the name of defending it against the digital version of a teenager stuffing CDs under his shirt. I won’t attempt a technical rundown of why the now infamous bills pending represent a bridge too far (see here for some useful links).
Instead, in an attempt to make sure we all remain well-armed – even as momentum has started to shift in the SOPA soap opera – let me talk briefly about politics, and the men and women who pull the levers of power in this country. Let’s check our naiveté at the door. And let’s look at the politicians themselves.