American Censorship Day. Dan Gillmor - Google+ - A Stop SOPA Phone App I've been planning to do an app like… Fight SOPA/PIPA: Tweet At Senate Leadership. Fight SOPA/PIPA: Tweet At Senate Leadership The Senate is threatening to pass its version of the Internet censorship bill -- the PROTECT IP Act -- when it returns from winter break later this month.
Will you tweet at Senate leadership to ask them to kill the legislation? Just click here: If you're already on Twitter, click here to tweet a Senate leadership. Millions of Americans have emailed their own senators to ask them to oppose the legislation -- which is a big part of why we've been able to hold the bill up this long. But some members of the Senate are more powerful than others, and we need to let Senate leadership -- Harry Reid, Chuck Schumer, and Mitch McConnell -- know how upset we are that this legislation is on their agenda. We need to make them understand that hundreds of thousands of us are paying attention and will be looking to this issue when we decide whom to vote for in this year's elections.
White House to respond to petition urging veto of online piracy bill. An online petition urging President Obama to veto a controversial anti-online piracy bill has passed the number of signatures required to receive an official response.
The petition, which is on the White House's official "We the People" page, urges the president to veto the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and "any other future bills that threaten to diminish the free flow of information. " The petition now has more than 34,000 signatures. It needed 25,000 before Jan. 17 for the White House to issue an official response.
SOPA would empower the Justice Department and copyright holders to demand that search engines, Internet providers and ad networks cut off access to sites "dedicated" to copyright infringement. The legislation is aimed at blocking foreign sites such as The Pirate Bay that offer illegal copies of movies, music and television shows with impunity. A broad coalition, including the U.S. "The petition is meaningless because it is based on fiction rather than facts. #SOPA - Fight back. Stop Censorship — Take Action Before Senate Vote. Hate SOPA? 6 things you can do to stop it. Alexander Howard - Google+ - The We The People epetition to veto #SOPA passed 25,000… E-Parasites : une pétition contre la loi anti-piratage américaine (MAJ) Mise à jour - Trois jours avant la fin du délai, la pétition hostile à la proposition de loi SOPA (Stopping Online Piracy Act) a atteint les 25 000 signatures nécessaires pour obtenir une réponse de la Maison Blanche.
Elle a même fait beaucoup mieux que cela, puisque plus de 45 000 (45 389 à l'heure où nous écrivons ces lignes) Américains ont signé la pétition. Le chiffre final devrait être beaucoup plus important d'ici trois jours à mesure que la mobilisation prend de l'ampleur. Sujet du 03 novembre - Dans le cadre de la lutte contre le piratage et la contrefaçon, les parlementaires américains examinent actuellement une proposition de loi destinée à offrir de nouveaux moyens d'action aux ayants droit et aux autorités. Baptisé E-Parasites Act, le texte vise en particulier à augmenter la responsabilité des hébergeurs, à empêcher le contournement du blocage ou encore attaquer la diffusion illicite de contenus en streaming.
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