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This Is the Internet After SOPA Today, many popular websites are going "dark" in protest of Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA). The consensus among many experts, Internet users, web companies and even the White House, is that SOPA is too restrictive, too dangerous, too complicated and too big of a threat to our privacy. In a way, today's blackout shows what the Internet might look if some of the principles in SOPA start being enforced as law. Do you like seeing big "CLOSED" signs on your favorite websites? Just Say 'No' to ACTA Privacy Policy Last modified: November 11, 2011 This Privacy Policy is continually under review to ensure your privacy and security. This website, (the “Site”) is operated by Access (“We” or “Us”).

Tumblr Takes Fight Against SOPA Up A Notch, ‘Censors’ User Dashboards Congress is in the process of kneecapping the web as we know it with a House bill called the Stop Online Piracy Act (a similar bill, called the Protect IP Act, is in the Senate). In a misguided attempt to curb piracy on the web, the bills would introduce website blocking at the DNS level, among other things, in a way that would effectively amount to censorship. And they could have disastrous implications.

YouTube Begins Experimenting With Completely New Interface & Rumored 'Mood Wall' Posted by Matthew Manarino on Wednesday, August 29, 2012 · The mad scientists over at YouTube have really been at it all week. First, several eagle-eyed YouTube enthusiasts noticed that the video-sharing site was tinkering with something the media has dubbed “the mood wall.” It turns out that the mood wall is an experiment by YouTube to help visitors find content that better suits their specific moods. Protect Our Privacy Privacy Policy Last modified: November 11, 2011 This Privacy Policy is continually under review to ensure your privacy and security. This website, (the “Site”) is operated by Access (“We” or “Us”). We work hard to protect your privacy. We’re members too, and we treat your privacy as we do our own.

Protests against SOPA, PIPA go viral News January 17, 2012 05:02 PM ET Computerworld - In a remarkable example of a grassroots campaign gone viral, several websites including Google, Reddit, Wikipedia, BoingBoing, Imgur and Tucows, are planning an unprecedented Internet "strike" Wednesday to protest controversial anti-piracy legislation being considered by Congress. Many of the sites plan to go completely dark on Jan 18 to show opposition to the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and the Protect IP Act (PIPA). Mediascape Responding to the altered landscape of the Internet following the bursting of the dot-com bubble, Time declared its 2006 selection for “Person of the Year” as “You.”1 Commonly referred to as Web 2.0, this “new Web,” which the magazine hailed as “a revolution,”2 invites users to become engaged participants, as exemplified by websites like Wikipedia and YouTube. One of the most widely held beliefs about Web 2.0 is that its tools and principles “challenge corporate culture and logic, opening up cultural production, authorship, and distribution to seemingly anyone.”3 While the proliferation of user-generated content available online lends some theoretical credence to this democratic assumption, several critics have questioned such “You-topian rhetoric.”4 Jean Burgess and Joshua Green, for instance, argue that YouTube’s popularity, in fact, “illustrates the increasingly complex relations among producers and consumers in the creation of meaning, value, and agency”5 (my emphasis).

Why We've Censored Wired.com We’ve blacked out the headlines on our website homepage today as part of a global internet protest against two radical anti-piracy bills pending in Congress — legislation that threatens to usher in a chilling internet censorship regime here in the U.S. comparable in some ways to China’s “Great Firewall.” SOPA and PIPA, the bills in question, are in tactical retreat as this story goes live, but it is almost certain their backers are already planning the next round, in a process that will continue in one form or another ad infinitum. Under the current wording of the measures, the Attorney General would have the power to order ISPs to block access to foreign-based sites suspected of trafficking in pirated and counterfeit goods; order search engines to delist the sites from their indexes; ban advertising on suspected sites; and block payment services from processing transactions for accused sites.

10 examples of QR code madness At #Funnel13 to listen and learn. @willmcinnes "Really useful, some really good speakers, not sales-y - just important industry information." Vanessa Ball, Digital Marketing Manager, The Color Company Hello Kitty by Francis Ann We all recognise that lovable face, the white mouthless girl-cat who has rather puzzingly owned our hearts since we first saw that amazing back-pack in Chinatown at the age of twelve. It's time to greet our latest icon of the week... Canton » Stop SOPA – PIPA protest That’s the title of my Slaw post for today. It reads as follows. Here are some of the sites that are going dark today, or changing their home pages in protest over the proposed US legislation. For more information on why this legislation is so bad, check out these sites, or search for “SOPA” on Slaw or Techdirt.com, or just Google it. Wikipedia:

Like Privacy Privacy Policy Last modified: November 11, 2011 This Privacy Policy is continually under review to ensure your privacy and security. This website, (the “Site”) is operated by Access (“We” or “Us”). We work hard to protect your privacy. These Websites Are Going Dark to Protest SOPA Update: Even more websites have joined the cause. Find the new results below. Tech companies are getting ready to black out on Jan. 18 to protest the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and its sibling the Protect IP Act (PIPA). Much has been made of Wikipedia's promise to "go dark," or shut down the site, for the day as a way of warning what might happen if SOPA became law.