For those of us in New York City, there's a protest at 12:30 today 780
Third Ave between 48 and 49 St.- and others across the U.S. More info here:
http://nytm.org/sos/

On Wed, Jan 18, 2012 at 6:42 AM, marc garrett <[email protected]
> wrote:

> Sorry, you're not allowed to read this: internet censorship threatens
> activism.
>
> In the history book of bad ideas, the concept of giving corporations the
> right to censor the internet has to rank among the worst ever.
>
> But that's what the impact of two bills recently introduced in the US
> Congress would be if they, or anything like them, were enacted into law,
> and it's causing a righteous ruckus among free speech activists around
> the world.
>
> In solidarity with major sites like Wikipedia, Boing Boing, and Reddit,
> many Greenpeace websites will be dark for 12 hours on 18 January to
> protest these two bills specifically, and the idea of empowering
> internet censorship in general.
>
> If you don’t know what the Stop Online Piracy Act (Sopa) and Protect IP
> Act (Pipa) are, you should look them up. While touted as efforts to
> curtail film and music piracy, they have the potential to allow
> corporations to censor online activism as well.
>
> more...
>
> http://www.greenpeace.org.uk/blog/about/sorry-youre-not-allowed-read-internet-censorship-threatens-activism-20120117
>
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