Idiots from both parties are once again tampering with what they do not understand, specifically, the internet. This is not 'Sky is falling' talk. This is really happening and would dramatically change the internet.
Their intent with the SOPA and PIPA bills are to stop piracy, which is fine, but with a sledge hammer rather than a scalpel. This bill gives government and media corporations virtually unlimited power to shut down any site they suspect has pirated content - whether it's from site owners or from site users. This means website owners will severely restrict what you can post, blog about, etc to prevent their site from being shut down. Your liberties are at stake here.
Today is Blackout Wednesday. To raise awareness about these bills. The following sites are going dark:
Wikipedia
Reddit
Mozilla
WordPress.org
Cheezburger Network
MoveOn.org
Good Old Games
TwitPic
Minecraft
Free Press
Mojang
XDA Developers
Destructoid
Good.is
Thank you to these sites for taking a stand. Some sites like en.wikipedia.org are going totally dark. The tech protesters say that SOPA would render any site that included links, even if they were user-submitted, practically unoperable and liable to government take-down. Going dark is a dramatic but not entirely unrealistic warning of what the Internet could look like in a SOPA world.
Contact your idiots in Congress who think this is how they're supposed to represent their constituents.
Rep. Lamar Smith (R-TX) is public enemy number one for sponsoring this bill. Others that we must vote out of office are:
Mark Amodei [R-NV2]
Joe Baca [D-CA43]
John Barrow [D-GA12]
Karen Bass [D-CA33]
Howard Berman [D-CA28]
Marsha Blackburn [R-TN7]
Mary Bono Mack [R-CA45]
John Carter [R-TX31]
Steven Chabot [R-OH1]
Judy Chu [D-CA32]
John Conyers [D-MI14]
Jim Cooper [D-TN5]
Ted Deutch [D-FL19]
Elton Gallegly [R-CA24]
Robert Goodlatte [R-VA6]
Tim Griffin [R-AR2]
Tim Holden [D-PA17]
Peter King [R-NY3]
John Larson [D-CT1]
Ben Luj?n [D-NM3]
Thomas Marino [R-PA10]
Alan Nunnelee [R-MS1]
William Owens [D-NY23]
Dennis Ross [R-FL12]
Steve Scalise [R-LA1]
Adam Schiff [D-CA29]
Brad Sherman [D-CA27]
Lee Terry [R-NE2]
Debbie Wasserman Schultz [D-FL20]
Melvin Watt [D-NC12]
Write or call your congressmen to tell them if you vote for this bill you will not get my vote. And if one of the above assholes are in your district, just tell them where to stick it.
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