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Offline Crybertrance

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Save our Internet (Thread against SOPA and PIPA)
This is plain OUTRAGEOUS :mad:! The links say it all guys..

https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/SOPA/Blackoutpage

http://www.avaaz.org/en/save_the_internet/?fPVJrcb&pv=170

If you have been living under a rock (like I did) and don't know what the hell we are talking about, watch this video (courtesy of Vimeo):

http://vimeo.com/31100268

And if you are wondering how it will effect all our lives:

http://www.1stwebdesigner.com/design/how-sopa-pipa-can-affect-you/

Post your views here!
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Offline Mort

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Re: Save our Internet (Thread against SOPA and PIPA)
hard-light.net/forums/index.php?topic=79361.0

There's already a thread for this

 

Offline Scotty

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Re: Save our Internet (Thread against SOPA and PIPA)
The whole internet has been blasted with news of this for weeks.  We're not idiots.  (And by that I mean HLP.  The internet as a whole is pretty much idiots.)

 

Offline stinkyFeet

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Re: Save our Internet (Thread against SOPA and PIPA)
There's alway's Conservapedia http://www.conservapedia.com/Main_Page if you're missing a education resource. :p

I think John Stewart had it right, this whole thing is to sad to take to seriously.

 

Offline LordMelvin

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Re: Save our Internet (Thread against SOPA and PIPA)
Oh NOES! This calls for a RED ALERT!

Wait, no, the other thread had that one covered.
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Re: Save our Internet (Thread against SOPA and PIPA)
There's alway's Conservapedia http://www.conservapedia.com/Main_Page if you're missing a education resource. :p

http://www.conservapedia.com/SOPA
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The Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) (also known as House Bill 3261 or H.R. 3261) is a bill demanded by wealthy liberals in Hollywood[Citation Needed] and the music industry, who are massive contributors to the Democratic Party. If passed, this bill would impose a number of controversial measures for dealing with online piracy including the distribution of copyrighted material via the internet. The Attorney General would be able to close down websites that infringe copyrights, and ban the site from online payment mechanisms such as PayPal and Visa. He could also prohibit the sites' online advertising, and disable Google from ranking and linking to infringing sites.

It is publicly supported by liberal Senator Harry Reid (D-NV), who enables it to be pushed through the U.S. Senate. Barack Obama is probably signaling his support behind the scenes, while publicly pretending to be reasonable. House Judiciary Committee Chair Lamar Smith (R-TX) has also supported it.

Proponents of the bill claim that it exists to protect the intellectual properties, and revenue of copyright holders, and is necessary to enforce copyright laws in the US. However, opponents state that it violates the First Amendment, that it will cripple and ultimately destroy the Internet, and will threaten online free speech. Some critics have likened this bill to China's Great Firewall.

Those supporting the bill include television and music companies (and their trade group, the Recording Industry Association of America), whilst critics include Google, Facebook, Twitter, Wikipedia, Yahoo!, and Mozilla, the creators of Firefox.

The Obama Administration released a statement which read, in part, "we will not support legislation that reduces freedom of expression, increases cybersecurity risk, or undermines the dynamic, innovative global Internet. Any effort to combat online piracy must guard against the risk of online censorship of lawful activity and must not inhibit innovation by our dynamic businesses large and small."[1] In political terms, such a statement means that the politician may sign the bad bill[Citation Needed] but then claim it does not harm anything.

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Re: Save our Internet (Thread against SOPA and PIPA)
NDAA, SOPA, PIPA, sure sounds like it's approaching the Enabling Act of 1933. That didn't turn out too well when passed.. It's important to take it serious even if it's so brazen and unreal for most (especially if you don't research this) but it's something that cannot be laughed away.

On a positive note, the opposition to these bills shows that we do have power, and that with sufficient opposition and resistance such things can't pass.
However, the voting and signing of the NDAA bill makes those that voted for it effectively traitors (By definition of the constitution and bill of rights) so who knows if they'll even listen. It however reveals them to not represent the people.
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Offline Crybertrance

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Re: Save our Internet (Thread against SOPA and PIPA)
Oh NOES! This calls for a RED ALERT!

Wait, no, the other thread had that one covered.
hard-light.net/forums/index.php?topic=79361.0

There's already a thread for this
The whole internet has been blasted with news of this for weeks.  We're not idiots.  (And by that I mean HLP.  The internet as a whole is pretty much idiots.)

Oh, sorry guys, just did a really quick search on the forums earlier today and found  no matches for "SOPA" and "PIPA" (keywords I used), so I pretty much assumed that you guys were ignorant about this  :nono: Anyways, my bad...
<21:08:30>   Hartzaden fires a slammer at Cybertrance
<21:09:13>   Crybertrance pops flares, but wonders how Hartzaden acquired aspect lock on a stealth fighter... :\
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<21:12:58>   Hartzaden continues to paint crybertrance and feeding the info to a wing of gunships
<21:14:07>   Crybertrance sends emergency "IM GETING MY ASS KICKED HERE!!!!eleventy NEED HELPZZZZ" to 3rd fleet command
<21:14:50>   Hartzaden jamms the transmission.
<21:14:51>   The_E explodes the sun

 

Offline Macfie

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Re: Save our Internet (Thread against SOPA and PIPA)
Make sure and contact your congressional representatives and voice your opposition.
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Offline Aardwolf

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Re: Save our Internet (Thread against SOPA and PIPA)
Oh, sorry guys, just did a really quick search on the forums earlier today and found  no matches for "SOPA" and "PIPA" (keywords I used), so I pretty much assumed that you guys were ignorant about this  :nono: Anyways, my bad...

Blame FlamingCobra for that.

Herp derp, let's make a thread with a non-descriptive title!

 

Offline deathfun

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Re: Save our Internet (Thread against SOPA and PIPA)
I'm not eligible to do this whole contacting Congress thing
Being Canadian and watching Americans run around with their heads cut off like chickens with all these bills is highly amusing
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Offline Mikes

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Re: Save our Internet (Thread against SOPA and PIPA)
I'm not eligible to do this whole contacting Congress thing
Being Canadian and watching Americans run around with their heads cut off like chickens with all these bills is highly amusing

Yeh... I'm not laughing tho, as they are sort of holding the hatched over all our (Internet) heads.

 
Re: Save our Internet (Thread against SOPA and PIPA)
I'm not eligible to do this whole contacting Congress thing
Being Canadian and watching Americans run around with their heads cut off like chickens with all these bills is highly amusing

Think chickens with proximity nuclear bombs, and you get a bit closer to my view...

 

Offline Sololop

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Re: Save our Internet (Thread against SOPA and PIPA)
Or the fact that we're likely to follow suit with the US on most things like this if it passes anyway.

 

Offline Mongoose

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Re: Save our Internet (Thread against SOPA and PIPA)
I'm not eligible to do this whole contacting Congress thing
Some advice I've seen going around, if you're up for it, is to contact the State Department and express your concerns there.

 

Offline Dragon

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Re: Save our Internet (Thread against SOPA and PIPA)
My advice on what to do with guys who invented these laws: hang em' high. I'd drown them in a glass of water if I could. How could a society so proud about their freedom even think of such a thing?

I thought the bills Polish government passes are stupid, but those two top all of them. I can see massive losses America would take should they try to censor Internet like that, I doubt all those companies that support those bills really know what it would bring on them. Also, isn't that against the American constitution (heck, maybe even Declaration of Independence, considering this is an attack on freedom of speech)?

Surely, if US adopts this, Poland (and most likely also EU) will follow suit. Especially Poles have a long tradition of such sheepish behavior (anything French/Russian/American/Whatever country is fashionable at the time is automatically good), but EU government also gets it's "sheepish idiot" moments.
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Anyway, I almost wish I lived in US and could call the State Department about this.

Also, if they're allowed to do that with "copyrighted content", then they'll sooner or later do this with "anti-government" content, nudity, swearing and anything vaguely "immoral".
I only hope that US people will see what's happening and the bills will not pass.

 

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Offline Nemesis6

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Re: Save our Internet (Thread against SOPA and PIPA)
Wait, Andy Schlafly is against something that liberals are against, too? Holy mother of...

 

Offline Klaustrophobia

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Re: Save our Internet (Thread against SOPA and PIPA)
i don't think this was really ever a liberal-conservative thing.  it might have leaned a little bit more liberal because of the control side of it, but it was mostly just about money.  MPAA and similar want to stay relevant while their industries changes around them, and are willing to spend huge amounts on lobbying (i would imagine more than they would save if successful) to that end.
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Re: Save our Internet (Thread against SOPA and PIPA)
i don't know if these guys are sane or somewhere in between, but they protested anyways:here
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