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 > > _______________________________________________ > NetBehaviour mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour > -- www.perrybard.net http://dziga.perrybard.net
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