What can you do to protest against SOPA?

by on January 19, 2012 with 9 Comments in News , Social Media

Today January 18, 2011 the World Wide Web did a national protest against SOPA. Many large sites such as Google, Wikipedia, Hover, GoDaddy, Flickr, and many more sites decided to participate in the STOP SOPA protest. We here at EricJess also censored our sites.

If you are not sure on what SOPA is you can read the full text of the bill.

SOPA stands for Stop Internet Piracy Act. Stealing things is wrong, and I do believe the government does need to adjust accordingly but this is NOT the way to go about it. There are many things flawed with this law. This gives companies the right to block any site they even believe to be encouraging piracy or copyright infringement. This includes personal blogs and social media sites.

This means if I posted a photo of a iPad case I found online and bought and reviewed and the original photographer feels that I am using his photo and that is against copyright he can block our site. This would include blocking and limiting sites on search engines.

What can you do to help? There are many things you can do to help!

We can stop this. There are many things you can do to stop SOPA. We need to work together and stop this law.
What are your opinons on SOPA? Will you do anything to help protest against SOPA?
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  • Blizzardo1

    SOPA will ruin my future. As a C# and C++ Coder, I write Open-Source, and whatever I write myself, will be claimed as Copyright Infringement, due to some asshole across the world, and my code will be taken down. Basically anything you do may be Copyright Infringement, and will be taken down. That’s what the internet is built on, Copyrights to this and that, and personally, I don’t see copyright infringement when it comes to GPL, but the government would see it otherwise. Vote NO on SOPA and PIPA.

  • Richard S

    I think this will affect the internet internationally aswell as in the US, if it is passed. It will take away freedom.

  • Deraco

    I think SOPA is another epic failure that the government wants to put on us to control us even more. I think we have enough crap comming from our government. I think our government is slowly becoming a communist gov. If you think about it too, SOPA and SIPA are against the 1st amendment of the United States Constitution Bill of Rights.

    • http://www.facebook.com/ben.archuleta Ben Joseph Archuleta

      Yes, in a way SOPA is another example of the Federal Government over reaching.

  • Cleta

    I agree totally and yes please contact  Senators and Representatives let them know how you feel about it we need to do everything we can to help stop SOPA sign the petitions and please read about SOPA how it will affect you this is very “Serious” the INTERNET as we know it will never be the same… if this passes.

    • http://www.facebook.com/ben.archuleta Ben Joseph Archuleta

      Yesterday, I went to Wikipedia and entered my information to find the phone number for my congressman, I called his office and gave them a piece of my mind.

  • Isaac Young

    I believe that SOPA will ruin the internet and cause even more illegal internet adding.

  • Isaac Young

    I think some people are trying to make the US Communist hopefully they wont win this

  • http://www.facebook.com/ben.archuleta Ben Joseph Archuleta

    I believe that yes copyrights should be respected but I also believe that fair use should be respected. The SOPA bill takes copyright enforcement to a new extreme for instance letting copyright holders shut down websites with out due process and making search engines remove sites from their index. Skipping due process in unquestionably unconstitutional. There is also a provision in the bill that requires ISP’s to block access to foreign web sites that are infringing on copyrights, this is essentially censoring the Internet. Congress has to understand that the Internet does not belong to any one country, it is essentially border less.
    Besides all of that some of the provisions in SOPA will break the global DNS system.

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