On the Tuesday 24th January 2012, the US Senate will vote on the internet censorship bill.
Whilst it is an American law, it has far reaching repurcusions for the web as a whole.
There are many companies against SOPA, such as Google, Reddit, Facebook, Twitter, Wikipedia, and HipHopSince1987.com
If you think SOPA doesn’t affect you, please think again. Watch the video below, or use the form below to force politicians to take notice.
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As you may have heard, the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and Protect-IP Act (PIPA) threaten the many glorious freedoms of the web and the communities that have risen from it—including Vimeo.
Both acts face serious opposition from all kinds of free-thinking people (including the President of the United States), but the fight isn’t over.
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.
We need you to take action right now to make sure these censorship-enabling bills don’t pass.
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