I just added my name to protect the Web as we know it with Mozilla. Will you join me?
http://mzl.la/tLMaWi #StopSOPA
Mozzila Firefox gives users this link to help spread the word about the SOPA bill and to help stop it when they join to learn how to stop the bill.
Here's an excerpt from Wikipedia (I know, I know, but this article has citations, and I consider a good source for preliminary knowledge, not necessarily for research papers
) about the bill:
The bill would allow the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), as well as copyright holders, to seek court orders against websites accused of enabling or facilitating copyright infringement. Depending on who requests the court orders, the actions could include barring online advertising networks and payment facilitators such as PayPal from doing business with the infringing website; barring search engines from linking to such sites and requiring Internet service providers to block access to such sites. The bill would make unauthorized streaming of copyrighted content a felony. The bill also gives immunity to Internet services that voluntarily take action against websites dedicated to infringement, while making liable for damages any copyright holder who knowingly misrepresents that a website is dedicated to infringement.
I've also talked with my mom and older sister, and they say that the bill would punish entire websites for something that only one person would have done.
Mozilla Firefox is not against stopping piracy, but this bill won't really stop piracy. It will shut down social networking sites whose users may be practicing piracy.
Stopping piracy is good, but this bill isn't good.
Click the link provided above and join to help stop this bill from passing as it is! Perhaps this bill changed or another bill that works towards stopping piracy in a better way will end up coming out of this. Or maybe we'll be back where we were. But at least we wouldn't have no social media.
Don't worry, I've already signed up, and so have my family members and a few other HWers. The link is safe. Help save the internet as we know it now!
If you don't feel like you agree with this post or you don't want to join, that's OK. I'm just alerting you about this issue and encouraging you to join with me. Also, I encourage you to research into this issue yourself so you can see where you stand.
I'd like to leave you with a quote from the movie Newsies. The movie is about the newsboys rebellion and how they ended up changing child labor laws.
"When you got a million voices singing, who can hear a lousy whistle blow?"
