Petition to Congress re SOPA

[rolanni]

(Rowena, you might want to avert your eyes)

From MoveOn.org:


This week Congress is debating whether to grant themselves the power to turn off parts of the Internet. Fun sites you YouTube. Informative sites like Wikipedia. Political sites like MoveOn.org.

If enacted, new laws would force Internet Service Providers to block websites that any corporation suspects violates a copyright or suspects doesn't monitor it's users' content close enough for copyrighted materials. That means that any website, foreign or based in the U.S., could be wiped out on suspicion and made unavailable to everyone in the world.

This week there will be a historic filibuster of the Internet Censorship Act where the names of every person that signs a petition against Internet censorship will be read. I added my name. Please add yours too.

http://pol.moveon.org/nointernetcensorship/?r_by=33343-18372597-%3DOJDQBx&rc=pac_nointernetcensorship_letter.email.g0

Thanks!

Comments

[serge-lj.livejournal.com]

I've already written to my CongressThing.

I'd like to think that some of the Founding Fathers would be aghast at what the Great Experiment has become.

[jessie-c.livejournal.com]

While it would be unethical for we furriners to involve themselves in your Government's affairs, I admit to great trepidation at this kind of Fascism, especially given the Ego that walks like a Prime Minister we've been saddled with up here. I can't sign the petition so I hope as many Americans who can will do so. All I can do is speak up in support and hope for the best.

Best of luck in getting past this idiocy.

[badgermirlacca.livejournal.com]

Urgently request permission to repost!

[rolanni.livejournal.com]

Of course.

[attilathepbnun.livejournal.com]

Already done! Wrote/emailed the CongressThings, too

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[(Anonymous)]

I signed it and sent it out on Facebook, where I found several other groups had similar postings and many of my friends were posting it on their site. Move On said they had 90% of the signatures they were going for, so hopefully all the groups will have the same luck. I am happy to see that activisim is alive, but saddened at the reasons we need it so badly. Kathy from No. CA.

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[claire774.livejournal.com]

Petition Signed. Keith Oberlmann had Sen Wyden on his show tonight on Current TV for a good explanation of all this. So I think I understand better. Huge monied lobbies like from Hollywood and such could just go to the gummit and complain about your web site and it would be taken down without even going to court. It was pointed out that only China and Iran have laws like this. Wyden says there are much better ways to handle problems the lobbies are complaining about than these types of draconian regs.
C.

[(Anonymous)]

In the box labeled “Your message to your senators and representative” I wrote:

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.

Raymond