SOPA – Stop Online Piracy Act
PIPA – PROTECT IP Act
You must have heard about the buzz made in the internet about SOPA and PIPA from few days. Many of you would be wondering what it is and why people are creating such a scene out of it. It’s time you know it and pour in your support.
What does SOPA and PIPA mean to common people like us?
We all know that internet is such a valuable resource that we cant imagine our live without it. It is the best thing that has ever happened to mankind.
We can’t start our day without google. We can’t learn anything or do homework without wikipedia. We cant meet our friends without facebook. They have become a part and parcel of our daily life. Its really hard to imagine ourselves without these even for a day. Just one day without internet in like putting you inside a prison wihtout any access to light,water, or air.
Internet is the backbone supporting eveything. Without the backbone its really hard to withstand. Every human has the right to access whatever information he/she needs. The internet needs to free and open. I didnt mean internet for free of cost, it just means that it should be free from all bullshitting laws and rules. We don’t like when someone gets into our private space. Internet is never biased to anyone. It always served the purpose when in need.
But there is always an enemy for the good.
Here the enemies are SOPA & PIPA.
Both SOPA and PIPA are US government’s HOUSE BILLs.
Since US is the main country governing the internet, it has almost all the power to take control over it. And moreover US got this habit to poke their long white nose in every issue.
Let me throw some light on these two enemies
SOPA – Stop Online Piracy Act – This act intends to stop piracy so that it wont effect the intellectual property of its respective owners. There are many websites hosting free and pirated stuff online like the mediafire.com , megaupload.com , thepiratebay.com , etc. They usually never restrict you about the content you upload or download. That is the reason why many people use for pirated stuff. If SOPA bill is passed , then such websites will be immediately banned and completely removed from the internet. Thus , resulting in heavy losses to many companies and businesses. SOPA is a threat to freedom of speech. It is restricting you from expressing and sharing whatever you want.
PIPA – Protect IP act – The bill defines infringement as distribution of illegal copies, counterfeit goods, or anti-digital rights management technology. Even PIPA is similar to SOPA. The Protect IP Act says that an “information location tool shall take technically feasible and reasonable measures, as expeditiously as possible, to remove or disable access to the Internet site associated with the domain name set forth in the order”. In addition, it must delete all hyperlinks to the offending “Internet site”. Which means if the bill is passed , they can block whichever site they want and do whatever they want to do.
These stupid goofy people in the governmental organizations hardly know anything about internet and they want control over it for their benefits. These politicians are the same everywhere…
In China , the govt secretly funded the hackers to attack google.cn since it was displaying some content against their govt.(this is really stupid – fucking chinese – you criminal minded people will never change).
Again , in India , the politicians are indirectly pressurising many websites to filter content that is against the govt. If not , they may face a ban.
In the USA. Previously they attacked wikileaks and now they want the whole internet in their hands. . . . . .
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Do you really want such fools to take away your freedom? – No !
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They took our jobs..said nothing!
Took our gasoline..said nothing!
Took out Osama…said nothing! 🙂
Now they cannot take away our INTERNET!
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Atleast internet is the only place you can actually express yourself freely. Its never biased or acts stupid.
Wikipedia has blacked out for a day (19-jan-2012) to spread awareness and fight back against SOPA & PIPA
Its time for us to fight back!
Lets support the cause and protect the internet.
Start sharing and spreading this page.
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If you live in US , then Visit http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/SOPA/Blackoutpage to pour in you support.
If you live outside the US , then please read this http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:SOPA_initiative/Learn_more
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You can sign a petition through google here https://www.google.com/landing/takeaction
Please enter a valid US zip code. If you live outside US , then give some random US zipcode.
IT’S NOW OR NEVER!!!!
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