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HELP STOP SOPA AND PIPA (the Thing That Will Kill Freedom Of Speech For Us Citizens)

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#1 ·
I'm sure all of you are aware of SOPA and PIPA which can ruin the internet. Heck, even by posting a link to a highlights video here can get Mens Tennis Forums shut down.

I know this isn't supposed to go in the General Messages, but I want this to have the most views possible :p

SIGN THIS PETITION HERE: http://americancensorship.org/ or here: https://www.google.com/landing/takeaction/

Thanks

These acts are only for US citizens and users so people not from the US, no woories ;)
 
#2 ·
Re: Help Stop Sopa And Pipa (they Can Ruin The Internet)

This is certainly a tennis issue for sure.
 
#3 ·
Re: Help Stop Sopa And Pipa (they Can Ruin The Internet)

This is certainly a tennis issue for sure.
once they kill tennis streams it will be.
 
#10 ·
Wikipedia is currently fucked because of this :eek:.
 
#11 ·
Just hit "Stop" right before the page is about to load. Bingo. Or just use a cached version.
 
#13 ·
Yeah I know that already.....but the page isn't updated...it's the same old content like a day ago :eek:
 
#21 ·
Same but it's still good to stand up against it. Hell Congress and such get away with passing too many bills that the American public really never educates themselves on, with some sketchy things written in them. It's good to see as a nation we're starting to take more notice in these types of things.
 
#28 ·
America is exposed for their hypocrisy... They used to criticized China for censorship. Now the US want to copy China and create a Great Firewall of America. There is a lot more to the bill than what is stated in its context. Just look at the history of the American govt. and the happy trigger of lawsuits, corporations attacking each other. These bills should be viewed as a start, a gateway drug of some kind. Who knows where it might lead us too..
 
#48 ·
Anyway, today's news brings this...

Online Piracy Vote Canceled
It must have been really tough around the Senate without Wikipedia. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid announced Friday that the vote on a controversial—and highly unpopular—online piracy bill had been delayed indefinitely. The House later announced a similar measure for its equivalent bill, known as the Stop Online Piracy Act, or SOPA. The bills had caused Wikipedia and several other websites to go dark Wednesday in protest. While a number of high-profile senators had pulled back their support of the bills in recent days, it placed Democrats between two powerful interest groups: Hollywood, which supports a crackdown on online piracy, and Silicon Valley, which believes the bills in their current form would hinder the Internet’s business model. One of the Senate bill's sponsors, Democratic Sen. Patrick Leahy, said delaying the bill is a victory for "overseas criminals" who would "drain our economy."

Newsweek,
January 20, 2012 12:30 PM
 
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