SPEAK UP AND OPPOSE PIPA/SOPA !!!

Flint · 01-17-2012, 11:57 PM

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
Wikipedia main page, enter your zipcode, it links to email contact for your congressmen / representatives.

https://www.usps.com/
US Postal service website can provide your zipcode+4, if required.

This is what I sent to all concerned:

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I strongly oppose the proposed legislation known as PROTECT IP Act (PIPA) / Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA). If you support this legislation you will never again have my vote.

Passage of this legislation would be substantively destructive to the fundamental qualities of a modern, democratic society. The mechanisms by which this legislation attempts to accomplish its goals are ill-conceived and unsustainable. Supporting this legislation would put you on the wrong side of a extraordinarily momentous event in human history. Don’t make that mistake. Oppose PROTECT IP Act (PIPA) / Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA).

Anyone who agrees with what I said has my permission to copy/paste my message, if that encourages them to SEND AN EMAIL.

https://www.google.com/landing/takeaction/
Google's main page links to this online PIPA/SOPA petition.

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Tell Congress: Please don't censor the web!

TheMercenary · 01-18-2012, 07:11 AM

Love Google's mini protest.

glatt · 01-18-2012, 07:41 AM

Congress is transparently corrupt. They are pushing this legislation through only because their financial contributors have asked them to. It's legal bribery.

And it's bipartisan. Yay!

glatt · 01-18-2012, 07:52 AM

I contacted my representative and one senator, but now I'm having trouble loading the form for my second senator. I wonder if they are experiencing a heavy volume today.

monster · 01-18-2012, 07:57 AM

For once the online petitions didn't ask me to declare that i'm a registered voter.

BigV · 01-18-2012, 12:44 PM

Fucking A.

This is done.

kerosene · 01-18-2012, 12:50 PM

Did this yesterday. A very important issue, no matter which side of the political spectrum you sit on.

Too bad this can't go through the teenager facebook channels like Ali's friend's contest did.

classicman · 01-18-2012, 01:53 PM

It is Kero. It started last night and I've seen a whole bunch of my friends and their friends ... its happening.

classicman · 01-18-2012, 02:28 PM

Everything ███ █████ is█████ ████ fine ████ ███
██████ love █████ █ your █ ████ government.

piercehawkeye45 · 01-18-2012, 04:31 PM

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Originally Posted by classicman

It is Kero. It started last night and I've seen a whole bunch of my friends and their friends ... its happening.

Same here. Besides the recent Packer loss, my facebook news feed hasn't blown up on a single issue like this for a while.

kerosene · 01-18-2012, 05:48 PM

Ah. I quit FB, so I wasn't aware it has gone that viral.

tw · 01-18-2012, 07:52 PM

The industry ignored the problem for years. Did virtually nothing to protect themselves. Law enforcement and other techniques to avert the problem are under utilized or sometimes ignored. So they want other innocent third parties to protect them.

A four man operation in St Petersburg Russia has routinely used internet scams (especially on Facebook) to steal $millions for consumer accounts. These four men are well known by name. The NY Times even published them. For years, Facebook has had a picture of one on their walls. Their St Petersburg office is described by the NY Times. These guys will even spend four months on vacations in places such as the south of France. And nothing happens to them. Where are routine solutions such as law enforcement?

These guys operate for the same reason why Hollywood would rather have third parties protect them.

Music industry's solution to piracy was to ignore it. To maintain an obsolete business model that only encouraged Napster. Even Apple had to drag this industry, kicking and screaming, into the new world.

What do badly managed industries do? What the American tire industry did to keep the radial tire out of America for almost 30 years. Run to government for protection for so long that most formally American tire manufacturers had to be sold to foreigners.

infinite monkey · 01-18-2012, 08:19 PM

I emailed the Speaker of the House, who happens to be my congressman.

Flint · 01-18-2012, 09:52 PM

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Originally Posted by BigV

Fucking A.

This is done.

If I may, quote you, quoting me:

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Originally Posted by BigV

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Originally Posted by Flint

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Finally, we should always fight, tooth and nail, against those who wish us to surrender to ignorance. As ignorant and insignificant as we are (and we most certainly are, to a degree our minds are incapable of comprehending) we have carved out a small niche of organized data, the qualities of which need constant protection from deliberate obfuscation. Knowledge is our most valuable resource, and attacks upon it are the most heinous crime.

From the Hall of Fame. I thought of this last night. I find that it applies.

BigV · 01-19-2012, 12:30 PM

You may. That's why it's there, to *preserve* such things. You were right when you said it the first time, I was right to note it and record it, and you were right to repeat it.

Good job.

01-18-2012, 07:11 AM	#2
TheMercenary “Hypocrisy: prejudice with a halo” Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Savannah, Georgia Posts: 21,393	Love Google's mini protest. __________________ Anyone but the this most fuked up President in History in 2012!

01-18-2012, 07:57 AM	#5
monster I hear them call the tide Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Perpetual Chaos Posts: 30,852	For once the online petitions didn't ask me to declare that i'm a registered voter. __________________ The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity Amelia Earhart

01-18-2012, 12:44 PM	#6
BigV Goon Squad Leader Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Seattle Posts: 27,063	Fucking A. This is done. __________________ Be Just and Fear Not.

01-18-2012, 01:53 PM	#8
classicman barely disguised asshole, keeper of all that is holy. Join Date: Nov 2007 Posts: 23,401	It is Kero. It started last night and I've seen a whole bunch of my friends and their friends ... its happening. __________________ "like strapping a pillow on a bull in a china shop" Bullitt

01-18-2012, 02:28 PM	#9
classicman barely disguised asshole, keeper of all that is holy. Join Date: Nov 2007 Posts: 23,401	Everything ███ █████ is█████ ████ fine ████ ███ ██████ love █████ █ your █ ████ government. __________________ "like strapping a pillow on a bull in a china shop" Bullitt

01-18-2012, 07:41 AM	#3
glatt ™ Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: Arlington, VA Posts: 27,717	Congress is transparently corrupt. They are pushing this legislation through only because their financial contributors have asked them to. It's legal bribery. And it's bipartisan. Yay!

01-18-2012, 07:52 AM	#4
glatt ™ Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: Arlington, VA Posts: 27,717	I contacted my representative and one senator, but now I'm having trouble loading the form for my second senator. I wonder if they are experiencing a heavy volume today.

01-18-2012, 12:50 PM	#7
kerosene Touring the facilities Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: The plains of Colorado Posts: 3,476	Did this yesterday. A very important issue, no matter which side of the political spectrum you sit on. Too bad this can't go through the teenager facebook channels like Ali's friend's contest did.

01-18-2012, 05:48 PM	#11
kerosene Touring the facilities Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: The plains of Colorado Posts: 3,476	Ah. I quit FB, so I wasn't aware it has gone that viral.

01-18-2012, 07:52 PM	#12
tw Read? I only know how to write. Join Date: Jan 2001 Posts: 11,933	The industry ignored the problem for years. Did virtually nothing to protect themselves. Law enforcement and other techniques to avert the problem are under utilized or sometimes ignored. So they want other innocent third parties to protect them. A four man operation in St Petersburg Russia has routinely used internet scams (especially on Facebook) to steal $millions for consumer accounts. These four men are well known by name. The NY Times even published them. For years, Facebook has had a picture of one on their walls. Their St Petersburg office is described by the NY Times. These guys will even spend four months on vacations in places such as the south of France. And nothing happens to them. Where are routine solutions such as law enforcement? These guys operate for the same reason why Hollywood would rather have third parties protect them. Music industry's solution to piracy was to ignore it. To maintain an obsolete business model that only encouraged Napster. Even Apple had to drag this industry, kicking and screaming, into the new world. What do badly managed industries do? What the American tire industry did to keep the radial tire out of America for almost 30 years. Run to government for protection for so long that most formally American tire manufacturers had to be sold to foreigners.

01-18-2012, 08:19 PM	#13
infinite monkey Person who doesn't update the user title Join Date: Mar 2011 Posts: 13,002	I emailed the Speaker of the House, who happens to be my congressman.

01-19-2012, 12:30 PM	#15
BigV Goon Squad Leader Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Seattle Posts: 27,063	You may. That's why it's there, to preserve such things. You were right when you said it the first time, I was right to note it and record it, and you were right to repeat it. Good job. __________________ Be Just and Fear Not.

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