SOPA

[onlyaworkingtitle]

So I'm hoping by now you've all heard about SOPA and signed the slew of petitions out there against it.

In addition to the petitions, you can also show your support by going to Blackout SOPA and changing your profile pic on all your social media sites -- solidarity, and all that jazz.

Anyone know other SOPA-protest-related things?

EDIT: Also, many sites are going on strike on January 18 to show solidarity against SOPA. Sign a petition here to convince more sites to strike with them.

[andreaisabbbw]

It's working--several of the sponsors and co-sponsors of the bills in Congress have already publicly renounced themselves from the bill. Go internet!

[onlyaworkingtitle]

Jan 18, 2012 23:44:30 GMT -5 andreaisabbbw said:

It's working--several of the sponsors and co-sponsors of the bills in Congress have already publicly renounced themselves from the bill. Go internet!

Yaaaaaay!

[Dodger Thirteen]

Jan 18, 2012 23:44:30 GMT -5 andreaisabbbw said:

It's working--several of the sponsors and co-sponsors of the bills in Congress have already publicly renounced themselves from the bill. Go internet!

I keep hearing this but no one has shown me any evidence. Any way you could post links to what you've read about it?

[andreaisabbbw]

www.businessreviewusa.com/technology/pipa-and-sopa-co-sponsors-use-facebook-to-abandon-bills

This was the first source I found (and luckily kept on my blog).

However, one of the senators from my state sent a statement to the city newspaper saying he's backing SOPA/PIPA full on. *angryface*

I'm adding another of the links I found that shows who's for and against the bills:

projects.propublica.org/sopa/

There's Tom Udall, still on the supporting list. -_-

[KatjevanLoon]

Don't know if y'all have heard of ACTA, but it's like the bigger, meaner, scarier brother of SOPA/PIPA.

And it's being quietly passed. And it will affect the whole world, not just the USA.

You can sign a petition to stop it: www.accessnow.org/page/s/just-say-no-to-acta

[onlyaworkingtitle]

Jan 30, 2012 4:50:29 GMT -5 KatjevanLoon said:

Don't know if y'all have heard of ACTA, but it's like the bigger, meaner, scarier brother of SOPA/PIPA.

And it's being quietly passed. And it will affect the whole world, not just the USA.

You can sign a petition to stop it: www.accessnow.org/page/s/just-say-no-to-acta

AAAAAAAA
...nonymous. Time to bring out the big guns... Anyone here frequent 4chan?

[KatjevanLoon]

Nope.

Though they did apparently release a huge amount of DDoS attacks to bring down a bunch of gov't websites after the FBI busted MegaUpload.

[onlyaworkingtitle]

Feb 1, 2012 0:40:12 GMT -5 KatjevanLoon said:

Nope.

Though they did apparently release a huge amount of DDoS attacks to bring down a bunch of gov't websites after the FBI busted MegaUpload.

Gotta love how a bunch of tech geeks famous for bizarre tastes in pornography have become the internet's great defenders.

[KatjevanLoon]

They are the Illuminati.

Or something.

Though I did also hear that they got a lot of people participating in this most recent attack against their will, by passing around a "new link" to a "new MegaUpload site" that would, when clicked, cause your computer to do a bunch of DDoS attacks against the gov't sites. They'd never done it that way before, and if you clicked the link it could land you 10 years in prison -- so that I feel is kinda shitty.

[onlyaworkingtitle]

Feb 2, 2012 23:37:00 GMT -5 KatjevanLoon said:

They'd never done it that way before, and if you clicked the link it could land you 10 years in prison -- so that I feel is kinda shitty.

Hey, I never said they were good -- just, y'know, better than the alternative.

[KatjevanLoon]

Oh, yeah. No argument there.