fallout330

December 13, 2011 at 8:53pm

Thanks for the info Win7fanboi, will definetly sign.  Just like Khoiboi said, "The free flow of information is the pinnacle of knowledge and intelligence".  It is quite unnerving to even see the idea being brought up for a vote.

win7fanboi

December 13, 2011 at 7:59am

What Can You Do? (from dyn.com)

If you’re based in the U.S. and against this act, we urge that you e-sign this petition to ‘Stop The E-Parasite Act’. The initial goal was to get 25,000 signatures by the end of November and as I write this, there are more than 40,000. Clearly, this is a movement that is gaining momentum.

For our international friends, there is a petition here that has got a tremendous following.

EFF has another avenue to have yourself heard : https://eff.org/r.C8A

Biceps

December 12, 2011 at 11:57pm

I agree that Google, Yahoo, Bing and all the other major service providers should follow Wikipedia in any type of boycott/shutdown to make a REAL point.  The only thing people pay any attention to nowadays is inconvenience. I would reward any company that did this with my patronage in the future, and I have already decided that I will not be patronizing any company that:

(1) is a member of the chamber of commerce

(2) supports this bill

There are no good pro-consumer reasons for SOPA, it is another example of our blind political leaders listening to the people who fill their pockets with legal anonymous campaign contributions *bribes*.

If you are a member of the Chamber of Commerce, quit, and tell them it is because of SOPA.  If you patronize any company that is a member of the Chamber of Commerce, stop patronizing them and tell them why, and encourage them to quit the Chamber of Commerce.

And, just to pre-empt...for all you Fox News watchers out there... the Chamber of Commerce is NOT a gov't organization, it is a lobbying group and Fox News is a member and hates you for reading this.

kris79

December 12, 2011 at 7:39pm

This is beginning to sound like the movie Matrix. Government man - play while you can. Neo is coming, and end your short span...

Good to see many of you rebels on this side of freedom...

Phantom-e

December 12, 2011 at 7:32pm

I am so sick of the federal government imposing more regulation under the guise of "we know what's best for you" mentality.  I am all for protecting the entertaiment industry's intellectual rights, but unless there are sights that are selling bootleg copies of movies, I don't think the videos at you tube raise to infringement levels, since the quality is sub-par, and the video segments are short.  Wikipedia goes to great lengths to make sure they're not stepping on anyone's copyrights, so i don't see why they should be targeted, as well as Google, etc.  Government needs to BACK THE HELL OFF!  And when I say government, I'm talking about the individuals that think they are doing the people's will.  All these regulations that are in place or will be in place are simply more small chips at our liberty and freedom.  There are already laws in place to combat piracy and copyright infringement.  The net needs to remain free from regulatory infringement. GO BLACK WIKIPEDIA! May other ones follow!

Bobking11

December 12, 2011 at 7:17pm

Why stop at Wikipedia? Google should do a blackout too, SOPA will be over by tea time.

Datrappert

December 12, 2011 at 6:49pm

I would absolutely support a blackout by Wikipedia. And if we could get Google to join in, that might actually send the proper message. And how about the NY Times and Washington Post also? And Bing. The list goes on....

ashinms

December 12, 2011 at 6:48pm

sopa is near communistic. we need an underground internet!

Budman_NC

December 12, 2011 at 5:58pm

Wasn't it Joni Mitchell who said, "Don't it always seem to go, that you don't know what you got 'til its gone, SOPA paved paradise, put up a parking lot!" ?? Yup, I checked, "Big Yellow Taxi"  <j/k>

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joni_mitchell

kris79

December 12, 2011 at 5:44pm

Bad Boys! You guys know a lot more about this than I do. Nevertheless, I am very much against the SOPA proposal as it stands now and I have contacted all my congressmen to let them know. If SOPA passes for the financial betterment of the few media moguls who control our governmental and judicial systems, I hope that some computer gurus will rise up and educate the rest of us with how we can resist. I believe that all good Americans will also do the right thing. I will cetainly do what I can to help. Take heart...

AntonioGarrison

December 12, 2011 at 5:32pm

Lets just get rid of democracy and go straight into communism, we're heading straight into the Great Firewall of China territory.

Gezzer

December 12, 2011 at 4:25pm

I would. Would it result in anything? Hard to say.

Big Media is playing a dangerous game. If nobody want's to play their game, they want the ablity to take the ball and go home. Problem is when that happens everyone else just comes up with a new game that doesn't need a ball or them either.

Long term effect of SOPA could be a much reduced American presence on the internet. Block sites at the DNS level? People will just use IP addresses instead. Have American based search engines block sites? Then non American search providers will crop up to supply the uncensored results. Same goes for payment providers and advertising services.The results will be the same as they were when trying to stop on-line gambling.

When will all these twits get a clue. The internet's based on ARPANET which one of it's major goals was the uninterruptible flow of information. Take out parts of it, and the data goes around it. H@ll as a lot of oppressive goverments are finding you can't even block it completely. It's a extremely robust system. So no matter what a bill tries to do, users will be able to side step it. In this case Americans will be the losers in the long run with Big media not really gaining much for all it's efforts.

avenger48

December 12, 2011 at 4:10pm

Yeah, I could live without it for a month if it reverses SOPA.  If Google joined in, it would send an even stronger message.

Eoraptor

December 12, 2011 at 4:02pm

You're damned skippy I would. While sites like tumblr have gotten the basic idea that SOPA = BAD LAW out there, there's still a large portion of the internet who haven't gotten the idea yet, and indeed, who are almost wholly unaware aside form a little "stop SOPA" bug in one corner of a website. But for a site like Wikipedia to suddenly go dark and flash a giant spoofe of an FBI warning would hit home with a much larger demographic, because, lets face it, wiki and wikipedia are almost as much a verb as Google is. These are the eevices that pretty much killed the print encyclopedia, and the idea that they would suddenly just be GONE under such censorship regimes will resonate.

Khoiboi

December 12, 2011 at 4:02pm

Excuse my language, but hell yes I would support it. The free flow of information is the pinnacle of knowledge and intelligence. To allow SOPA to pass would be to diminish both our rights as people and as intellectuals. To me, this is only a question of whether it's better for everyone to have access to free knowledge or for a few companies to be able to make more money. Our education system is abysmal enough, don't let them censor the 'net.