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Stop Online Piracy Act
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stop_Online_Piracy_Act
PROTECT IP Act
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PROTECT_IP_Act
Obviously do what you can, even if you don't live in the US!
It's one world. Everything is connected and influenced by everything else.
This is gonna go even further deeper into human rights and we should do all that we can.
http://sopastrike.com/
Watch a video about what is going on
http://www.g4tv.com/videos/56930/intern … s-ohanian/
Last edited by jettyke (2012 January 18, 4:31 am)
zigmonty wrote:
I'm just annoyed google backed down from their threat. A day without *any* of google's services would have some kick. Can you imagine if gmail's servers just started bouncing mail? LOL.
LOL 
That would work like hell:D
But maybe somebody could sue google?
Because wikipedia is a non-profit organization.
edit:
Wait, if google would shut down the search, you couldn't spread the information at all
But some other services,...yeah.
Last edited by jettyke (2012 January 18, 5:12 am)
Jarvik7 wrote:
Wikipedia still works if you hit stop before the page blacks out. Boing boing on the other hand is unusable.
Or you could just use the japanese version. 
They are only blocking the english edition, although there is a banner explaining what's going on on the other editions.
zigmonty wrote:
Jarvik7 wrote:
Wikipedia still works if you hit stop before the page blacks out. Boing boing on the other hand is unusable.
Or you could just use the japanese version.
Learning Japanese is compulsory now You have nowhere to run
This happens just when I had to look up some information about a movie on Wikipedia. At least ウィキペディア is working fine.
Last edited by Nesetoru (2012 January 19, 8:46 am)
JimmySeal wrote:
Inny Jan wrote:
jettyke wrote:
Who cares about wikipedia?
Who cares about America*?! You have counties like Iran or China that can live perfectly well without American internet.
*Actually, it wouldn't be good for the US to have this bill passed but it wouldn't be the end of the world either.I think you neglect to realize that the majority of the world's internet services are hosted on American land. This bill doesn't just affect American internet, whatever that is.
And also many people fail to realize, it seems, that this issue is one of the biggest issues that has happened in the world in a looong loooong time 
If the internet gets screwed, we're screwed 
Internet is the biggest and most innovative thing that humanity has created so far.
And if this tool gets in the wrong hands, well who knows...
They're basically trading the best form of liberty available to humanity at this point for money, and not that much money either (what Hollywood earns is a drop in the bucket compared to the profits based on the Internet, not to mention that the resources spent enforcing the bill would make the net profit go into the negative; luckily for the movie industry, it won't be they that will be paying for said enforcement). I don't generally hate capitalism, but this comes off to me as a very ugly side of that particular ideology.
Though IMO, this will happen sooner or later. Either as a single bill (current) or as a series of restrictions imposed over the years, maybe even decades. As long as the government holds the ability to censor the Internet, eventually, it will do so - after all, Diet members change (or whatever they're called in America), and so does public opinion. The better alternative, for me at least, is to get the Internet censored in a single, broad movement, thus provoking a public outcry and forcing the power users to create the proverbial Darknet that would be decentralized and thus protected from corporate meddling. With the power users leaving, the censored version would lag further and further behind the free one, even without considering the limitations imposed on it by USA law. Sadly, such a future is thus far only a dream
