Don’t Let It Happen!
The Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) – may look good from far, but is far from good! Google, Facebook, Yahoo, Twitter, eBay, AOL and others have all spoken out against the proposed legislation and its threat to the Internet…and now Wikipedia! Please bear with me people, THIS IS IMPORTANT! It has the potential to affect us all and although I'm politically neutral, it is important that we stand up for basic human freedoms and the freedom of expression.
For some time now, I have had the Support Mozilla link in the upper left side of this page.You may not be American, and English may not be your home language; this doesn’t matter! If you use the Internet, this legislation will affect you…Read more here at Time Magazine...
http://www.time.com/time/business/article/0,8599,2104586,00.html#ixzz1jirpzbdZ
The latest, on-line giant to get involved in the protest against SOPA and PIPA, is Wikipedia. Tomorrow, Wednesday, the 18th; Wikipedia will black out the English language version of its website for twenty-four hours. Many other online communities such as Reddit, Boing Boing and others will be joining the protest.
The latest, on-line giant to get involved in the protest against SOPA and PIPA, is Wikipedia. Tomorrow, Wednesday, the 18th; Wikipedia will black out the English language version of its website for twenty-four hours. Many other online communities such as Reddit, Boing Boing and others will be joining the protest.
Although Wikipedia’s articles are neutral, its existence is not. The following excerpt is from The Wikipedia Open Letter…
“We depend on a legal infrastructure that makes it possible for us to operate. And we depend on a legal infrastructure that also allows other sites to host user-contributed material, both information and expression… Where it can be censored without due process, it hurts the speaker, the public, and Wikimedia… We support everyone’s right to freedom of thought and freedom of expression. We think everyone should have access to educational material on a wide range of subjects, even if they can’t pay for it…!”
http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/English_Wikipedia_anti-SOPA_blackout
With all the social media available, just take a few minutes to put in a word, somewhere, even if you’re not American, in support of a free Internet. Imagine, for a moment, what life would be like for all of us if we were to lose this remarkable resource…
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Do what you can to make your voice heard.
With all the social media available, just take a few minutes to put in a word, somewhere, even if you’re not American, in support of a free Internet. Imagine, for a moment, what life would be like for all of us if we were to lose this remarkable resource…
