Michael Moore and I Fighting Together… Weird.
18 Jan 2012 Leave a Comment
in Politics Tags: Michael Moore, PIPA, SOPA
Today is the 18th and if I knew how to do it then I would shut down my blog for the day. Not that I get too many hits to make much of a difference, but we are talking about principle here. Unfortunately, I don’t know how to do that, and so instead I’m posting a link to this video about why it would go dark for the day if I was tech-savvy enough to be sure that I could ever get it back up again.
Internet piracy is the most unsexy piracy ever, but SOPA and PIPA aren’t the way to stop it. Internet censorship can hurt us all. It is by far more dangerous than theft.
Freedom and liberty require constant vigilance. I’m with Google and Wikipedia (and many others… including Michael Moore) on killing SOPA and PIPA. The most effective way to shut down pirate websites is through targeted legislation that cuts off their funding. There’s no need to make American social networks, blogs and search engines censor the Internet or undermine the existing laws that have enabled the Web to thrive. This isn’t China.
Learn more about today’s strikes here. Or don’t. Totally up to you.
Oh… one more thought… Representatives… if you are completely out of touch with your constituents and vote this in, then you can be replaced by the people… just saying.
As to the evil which results from a censorship,
it is impossible to measure it,
for it is impossible to tell where it ends.
~ Jeremy Bentham (1748 – 1832)
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