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Stop SOPA and such stealth censorship dressed up as a protection racket

I will be supporting Stop SOPA (Stop Online Piracy Act) & PROTECT IP Act joining the internet blackout and anti-SOPA/PIPA online protests along with many other people from Boing Boing to WordPress (yay!) to Mozilla to Google to the Raging Grannies (yeah!) on the 18th AND the 23rd.

And this video (although the guy is slightly annoying in that too-perky-too-much-caffeine way, bear with it it gets really good), makes a really good point – ever noticed that the very sites like Download.com, C:Net et al that hosted and promoted the file sharing software are OWNED or were supported by the very corporations that are supporting SOPA? So they were promoting sharing of MP3s and movies while suing others for doing same….and it’s not some Wikileaks cable release (Wikileaks are less surprisingly also a supporter of the blackout as well as Anonymous who started the (snow)ball rolling) – it’s all on the Internet WayBack Machine. What gives? Maybe these companies wanted y’all to share media content so eventually they could in the short term profit from it, but in the longterm stop and control the Internet? Certainly seems a lot of these companies have been playing the victim card for too long – while actively creating their own downfall…I call that a protection racket, blackmail or fraud. I wonder how many CEOs will play the James ‘For Nigel’ Murdoch ‘I never saw that email/10,000 pages with bittorrent/Kazaa software & articles how to use them’ blinker?

I strongly recommend you all put the word out about SOPA, support the blackout (aka #OpBlackOut) and those in the US and abroad talk to your representatives when ACTA/SOPA/Digital Economy Act type laws pop up in your country….because if SOPA is successful not only will it cause disruption for the world via DNS (breaking the internet in many ways) they will push for this law elsewhere…as they did with DMCA and ACTA et al.

ANd make sure you add your site to SOPAStrike – if you want help with ‘blacking out’ your self-hosted WordPress site, just search for SOPA in the plugins, a lot easier than years back with the NZ Blackout which meant switching themes (although you probably could also adapt those they’re probably still floating around!) – or adapt the Anonymous themes you’ll find on #OpBlackOut sites. More info on blackout templates and plugins (Blogger, WP).

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