PROTECT IP / SOPA Breaks The Internet

Tell Congress not to censor the internet NOW! - http://www.fightforthefuture.org/pipa

PROTECT-IP is a bill that has been introduced in the Senate and the House and is moving quickly through Congress. It gives the government and corporations the ability to censor the net, in the name of protecting "creativity". The law would let the government or corporations censor entire sites-- they just have to convince a judge that the site is "dedicated to copyright infringement."

The government has already wrongly shut down sites without any recourse to the site owner. Under this bill, sharing a video with anything copyrighted in it, or what sites like Youtube and Twitter do, would be considered illegal behavior according to this bill.

According to the Congressional Budget Office, this bill would cost us $47 million tax dollars a year — that's for a fix that won't work, disrupts the internet, stifles innovation, shuts out diverse voices, and censors the internet. This bill is bad for creativity and does not protect your rights.

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Comment by Sylvia Hysen on January 18, 2012 at 2:15pm
great video...just had editorial post it to our front page
Comment by JenSocial on January 17, 2012 at 10:51pm
I'm all for getting rid of piracy, in a major way. But, from all I have found and read, that's not what this is all about. It's more about control falling into the wrong hands.

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