Who thinks CA.com should join the SOPA Blackout on 1/18?

[Pborcich 10+ year member]

Eh?

I Do.

I think we should all fight for our rights

this is the first time ive become politically involved but im tired of being the guy saying that **** will never happen and having others fight my battles its time i use myself as influence.

Ive emailed the owners of CA CACO D4S and CSCO to use my influence to try and make a difference for our freedoms online.

Sopa Blackout

Companies and organizations

EFF home page with American Censorship Day banner

Opponents of the bill include Google, Yahoo!, Facebook, Twitter, AOL, LinkedIn, eBay, Mozilla Corporation, Roblox, Reddit,[97] the Wikimedia Foundation,[98] and human rights organizations such as Reporters Without Borders,[99] the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), the ACLU, and Human Rights Watch.[100]

On December 13, 2011, Julian Sanchez of the Libertarian think tank Cato Institute came out in strong opposition to the bill saying that while the amended version "trims or softens a few of the most egregious provisions of the original proposal... the fundamental problem with SOPA has never been these details; it’s the core idea. The core idea is still to create an Internet blacklist..."[101]

The Library Copyright Alliance (including the American Library Association) objects to the broadened definition of "willful infringement" and the introduction of felony penalties for noncommercial streaming infringement, stating that these changes could encourage criminal prosecution of libraries.[102]

On November 22 Mike Masnick for Techdirt published a detailed criticism of the ideas underlying the bill, writing that "one could argue that the entire Internet enables or facilitates infringement", and saying that a list of sites compiled by the entertainment industry included the personal site of one of their own artists, 50 Cent, and a wide variety of highly successful legitimate internet companies. The article questioned the effect of the bill on $2 trillion in GDP and 3.1 million jobs, with a host of consequential problems on investment, liability, and innovation.[103][104] Paul Graham, the founder of venture capital company Y Combinator opposes the bill, and bans all SOPA-supporting companies from their "demo day" events. "If these companies are so clueless about technology that they think SOPA is a good idea," he asks, "how could they be good investors?"[105]

The Center for Democracy and Technology maintains a list of SOPA and PIPA opponents consisting of the editorial boards of the New York Times and Los Angeles Times, 34 organizations, and many hundreds of prominent individuals.[106]

Zynga Game Network, creator of Facebook games Texas HoldEm Poker and FarmVille, wrote to the sponsors of both bills highlighting concerns over the effect on "the DMCA's safe harbor provisions ... [which] ... have been a cornerstone of the U.S. Technology and industry's growth and success", and opposing the bill due to its impact on "innovation and dynamism".[107]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stop_Online_Piracy_Act

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[Flipx99 5,000+ posts]

Isn't sopa trying to prevent child **** and piracy. I don't support the proliferation of piracy.

 

[Pborcich 10+ year member]

Isn't sopa trying to prevent child **** and piracy. I don't support the proliferation of piracy.

Someone obviously hasnt read into it at all....

 

[Captain_Ahab 5,000+ posts]

I don't.

 

[Flipx99 5,000+ posts]

Someone obviously hasnt read into it at all....

So you don't support limiting piracy? Sometimes he have to give up rights for security.

 

[i2ain2thunder 10+ year member]

i'll join a ron paul movement

 

[cyn 10+ year member]

Sopa would basically turn our internet into how China runs theirs... 90% of forums would be shutdown... they are tagging the bill as per to fight piracy and child **** but it effects everything that is on the internet not just those 2 items they are pushing hard against.... bigger government = less rights for people... i don't believe we should lose rights for the bigger corps to get their way, they should change their ways to conform to how things is done now instead of how things was done 20 years ago.

 

[i2ain2thunder 10+ year member]

^^This x2

 

[brodeisel 10+ year member]

Fight the POWA

 

[kramer_212 10+ year member]

sure lets join the black out but what the h am i going to do on that day?

 

[mast240 10+ year member]

I'd be down for it... SOPA is beyond ridiculous, and just one more step into turning us into china.

 

[sobe3yourself. 10+ year member]

SOPA is stupid.

it's like napster all over again

 

[mast240 10+ year member]

And for those of you who don't realize how SOPA will affect you... it will make administrators and owners responsible for all content posted on their site, regardless if they were aware of it or not... what this will primarily do is completely shut down the free exchange of information that the internet is built on. While it's billed to stop piracy, it will reach MUCH deeper than that, especially since the wording of the law is written VERY vague. So, youtube... gone. Forums... gone. Flickr, Photobucket, Imgur... gone.... you get the point.

 

[brodeisel 10+ year member]

Basicaly we are al going to bend over for the bic cawk running the g-ment. And NO guy in his righ tmind wants a cawk in his arse.

 

[cyn 10+ year member]

Basically anything and any where you can exchange sell or buy stuff will be gone...

everyone says America land of the free etc.. etc... we have less rights in this country than 80% of any other country... We have had this drilled in to us since we was born that we are a free nation but every single year we lose more and more of our rights. Just like on Dec. 31st when OBAMA signed the BREAKING: Obama Signs Defense Authorization Bill | ThinkProgress which basically makes it if you speak out against the government you can be held as a terrorist without any due rights or process... go figure we get rid of other presidents and governments that have these same bills/laws but then they pass them here...

Its what happens when we have sheep following blindly and believing everything the government tells them is true..