# HG changeset patch # User Brian Neal # Date 1326656899 21600 # Node ID 9beda24d558cc979808a63dea44c59e2549eb93c # Parent c4696a0cbd3f1c5a6d973a7f10a511ca44a36fd4 Updated the SOPA page. diff -r c4696a0cbd3f -r 9beda24d558c gpp/templates/sopa.html --- a/gpp/templates/sopa.html Sun Jan 15 13:27:37 2012 -0600 +++ b/gpp/templates/sopa.html Sun Jan 15 13:48:19 2012 -0600 @@ -11,9 +11,9 @@

SurfGuitar101.com Offline to Protest SOPA / PIPA

Dear Friends of SurfGuitar101.com:

-I am closing the site today to protest two pieces of legislation in the US Congress: the so-called +I am joining many other websites today and closing the site to protest two pieces of legislation in the US Congress: the so-called Stop Online Piracy Act, or SOPA in the House, and the so-called -Protect IP Act, or PIPA in the Senate. I hope to draw attention to these acts and +Protect IP Act, or PIPA in the Senate. I hope to draw your attention to these acts and urge each one of you to read up on them. Then, please contact your representatives and ask them to withdraw their support for these bills.

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The Internet is quite possibly the greatest invention of my lifetime. It should be a tool for free expression, -democracy, innovation, and entrepreneurship. Instead, the media companies are failing to innovate or embrace -this new digital age, and they are asking the US government to essentially bail them out. We cannot let the US goverment +democracy, innovation, and entrepreneurship. However, the media companies are failing to innovate and embrace +this new digital age, and instead are asking the US government to essentially let them decide what we can and cannot +view on the internet. We cannot let the US goverment join the ranks of despot countries like China, Iran, Syria, and North Korea and censor their citizens' use of the Internet.

Here are some links that I ask you to look over. They explain the issues far better than I can.