Recent devlopments in the US govement are threating the internet as we know it - many sights are under threat by the propsed Stop Online Privacy Act (SOPA). This basickly gives the right to govemnt (curently the USA are consideirng this but other counteries may follow) to take down and block access to sights which may be linked in any way to copeyrighted material and other possable / suspected threats.
So on first thought you might think this is a fair idea untill you release that this covers and endangers all sights which have content on them which are user genranted - Wickapeadia, Ebay, Youtube, Facebook, all forums etc and sights which enable free spech and commuaction.
Therefor I am urging everyone (from the USA or not) to at least sighn the partition agensed SOPA and speek up agensed this madness which threatens not only the internet but millions of jobs, the worldwide econmey, freedom of expershion and sharing of infomation etc
The USA sight / partition is hear http://americancensorship.org/
If your outside of the US then sighn the partition hear http://americancensorship.org/modal/sta ... index.html
More infomation about this can be found hear http://fightforthefuture.org/pipa
I know this is quite off topic from the nature of this forum but I feel that action needs to be taken
Thanck you
Tim
The end of the internet as we know it !!!!!!!
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The end of the internet as we know it !!!!!!!
The real Mr Potato Head
Re: The end of the internet as we know it !!!!!!!
Has now been dropped at least for the moment .
http://mashable.com/2012/01/20/sopa-is- ... ulls-bill/
http://mashable.com/2012/01/20/sopa-is- ... ulls-bill/