SOPA STRIKE – Largest online protest in history
Tomorrow many Internet sites (including Wikipedia, Reddit, TUCOWS, The Internet Archive, and more) will go dark in protest of the upcoming SOPA and PIPA bills. These bills are based on dangerously uninformed ideas of how The Internet works and have disastrous ramifications well beyond the intentions of the legislators.
Looking deeper, it is clear that the legislators of these bills have been bought and paid for unduly influenced by media corporations desperate to eke profits from anachronistic business models, and it’s high time that someone calls them out. Educate yourself and let your legislator know how you feel!
On Jan 24th, Congress will vote to pass internet censorship in the Senate, even though the vast majority of Americans are opposed. We need to kill the bill – PIPA in the Senate and SOPA in the House – to protect our rights to free speech, privacy, and prosperity. We need internet companies to follow Reddit’s lead and stand up for the web, as we internet users are doing every day.
