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Adding SG101 protest page for SOPA & PIPA.
| author | Brian Neal <bgneal@gmail.com> |
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| date | Sat, 14 Jan 2012 14:59:51 -0600 |
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| 4 <title>SurfGuitar101.com is offline to protest SOPA / PIPA</title> | |
| 5 <meta charset="utf-8" /> | |
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| 7 <link rel="stylesheet" href="http://twitter.github.com/bootstrap/1.4.0/bootstrap.min.css" /> | |
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| 10 <div class="container"> | |
| 11 <h1>SurfGuitar101.com Offline to Protest SOPA / PIPA</h1> | |
| 12 <p>Dear Friends of SurfGuitar101.com:</p> | |
| 13 <p> | |
| 14 I am closing the site today to protest two pieces of legislation in the US Congress: the so-called | |
| 15 <em>Stop Online Piracy Act</em>, or <em>SOPA</em> in the House, and the so-called | |
| 16 <em>Protect IP Act</em>, or <em>PIPA</em> in the Senate. I hope to draw attention to these acts and | |
| 17 urge each one of you to read up on them. Then, please contact your representatives and ask them to withdraw | |
| 18 their support for these bills. | |
| 19 </p> | |
| 20 <p>I too am concerned about protecting copyrights and intellectual property. But these bills have provisions in them | |
| 21 that go too far. They allow media companies to ask the government to remove sites from the Internet without any | |
| 22 due process or oversight. The burden of proving that no coypright violations are present will fall on site operators. | |
| 23 Major tech companies like Google, Facebook, and Twitter oppose these bills. The engineers that built the internet have | |
| 24 also spoken out, pointing out that the provisions in these bills will not prevent piracy, but in fact will create | |
| 25 security problems and disrupt the operation of the Internet. | |
| 26 </p> | |
| 27 <p> | |
| 28 The Internet is quite possibly the greatest invention of my lifetime. It should be a tool for free expression, | |
| 29 democracy, innovation, and entrepreneurship. Instead, the media companies are failing to innovate or embrace | |
| 30 this new digital age, and they are asking the US government to essentially bail them out. We cannot let the US goverment | |
| 31 join the ranks of despot countries like China, Iran, Syria, and North Korea and censor their citizens' use of the Internet. | |
| 32 </p> | |
| 33 <p>Here are some links that I ask you to look over. They explain the issues far better than I can.</p> | |
| 34 <ul> | |
| 35 <li><a href="http://americancensorship.org/infographic.html">SOPA at a glance</a>, a nice infographic from <a href="http://americancensorship.org">americancensorship.org</a></li> | |
| 36 <li><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/16/opinion/firewall-law-could-infringe-on-free-speech.html?_r=3">Stop the | |
| 37 Great Firewall of America</a> - New York Times editorial</li> | |
| 38 <li><a | |
| 39 href="http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2012/01/sopa-is-a-symbol-of-the-movie-industrys-failure-to-innovate/250967/">SOPA | |
| 40 Is a Symbol of the Movie Industry's Failure to Innovate</a> - from entreprenuer Steve Blank</li> | |
| 41 <li><a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/right-turn/post/overkill-on-internet-piracy/2011/12/11/gIQA9TK6nO_blog.html">Overkill on Internet Piracy</a> - from The Washington Post</li> | |
| 42 <li><a href="http://reason.com/blog/2011/11/08/new-anti-piracy-legislation-would-break">New Anti-Piracy Legislation Would Break the Internet Without Stopping Piracy</a> - from Reason magazine</li> | |
| 43 <li><a href="http://americancensorship.org">AmericanCensorship.org</a> - information and resources</li> | |
| 44 <li><a href="http://projects.propublica.org/sopa/">SOPA Opera</a> - Where do your members of congress stand on SOPA | |
| 45 and PIPA?</li> | |
| 46 <li><a href="https://wfc2.wiredforchange.com/o/9042/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=8173">Stop the Internet Blacklist | |
| 47 Legislation</a> - The Electronic Freedom Foundation provides this page to easily let you send an email to your | |
| 48 representatives. Just enter your zip code.</li> | |
| 49 <li><a href="http://www.tumblr.com/protect-the-net">Protect the Net</a> - popular blogging site Tumblr.com's | |
| 50 information and resources for contacting your representatives</li> | |
| 51 <li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stop_Online_Piracy_Act">SOPA Entry on Wikipedia</a></li> | |
| 52 <li><a href="http://www.cdt.org/report/growing-chorus-opposition-stop-online-piracy-act">Growing Chorus of Opposition | |
| 53 to "Stop Online Piracy Act"</a> - from the Center for Democracy and Technology</li> | |
| 54 <li><a href="https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2011/10/sopa-hollywood-finally-gets-chance-break-internet">SOPA: Hollywood | |
| 55 Finally Gets A Chance to Break the Internet</a> - from the Electronic Freedom Foundation</li> | |
| 56 <li><a href="https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2011/12/fight-blacklist-toolkit-anti-sopa-activists">Fight the Blacklist: | |
| 57 A Toolkit for Anti-SOPA Activism</a> - from the Electronic Freedom Foundation</li> | |
| 58 <li><a href="http://www.opencongress.org/">OpenCongress.org</a> - News about SOPA & PIPA as well as resources for | |
| 59 contacting your representatives</li> | |
| 60 </ul> | |
| 61 <p> | |
| 62 Thank you for your patience and understanding. I firmly believe that even small community websites like ours | |
| 63 would be threatened if bills like this were allowed to pass.<br /> | |
| 64 <em>-- Brian Neal</em> | |
| 65 </p> | |
| 66 <p> | |
| 67 <a href="https://wfc2.wiredforchange.com/o/9042/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=8173" class="btn large danger">Contact your representatives now</a> | |
| 68 </p> | |
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