Wikipedia Will Go Dark On Wednesday to Protest SOPA/PIPA
According to Nikki Finke at DeadlineHollywood, Wikipedia is going dark on Wednesday to protest SOPA/PIPA.
The point is to give people a taste of how much their lives would change if websites they are used to suddenly start disappearing because Eric Holder and the Obama Administration are given the power to obliterate sites they don’t particularly care for.
Anyone in Congress who supports SOPA/PIPA should be defeated.
All the big donors who fund the campaigns of people supporting SOPA/PIPA need to hear from the public. The most important thing you can ever learn about politics is that elected officials really don’t listen to the public — but they will leap over furniture and push their elderly mothers out of the way to take the call of an irate big donor to their campaigns.
So, the way to get Congresscritters to listen is to start haranguing their large donors. Finding them takes legwork and familiarity with FEC filings, but I guarantee you that if the public started angrily calling and writing the wealthy people who write the big checks to the people in office supporting SOPA/PIPA, this nonsense will disappear and never be attempted again.
Have you seen a list of the Congresscritters who conceived SOPA/PIPA and pushed it this far? Every one of those people should lose their seats this fall. THAT would teach a lesson to Congress in the future that if they attempt censorship of the Internet again they will find their re-election bids “censored” as well.
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"REPORT: House Kills Sopa. “In a surprise move today, Representative Eric Cantor(R-VA) announced that he will stop all action on SOPA, effectively killing the bill. This move was most likely due to several things. One of those things is that SOPA and PIPA met huge online protest against the bills. Another reason would be that the White House threatened to veto the bill if it had passed. However, it isn’t quite time yet to celebrate, as PIPA(the Senate’s version of SOPA) is still up for consideration.” Bury it at a crossroads with a stake through its heart. Then vote against its sponsors."
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We're halfway there and I totally agree with Glenn's sentiment.
SOPA/PIPA threatens all of us bloggers. Get rid of it!
SOPA is not dead – Cantor shelved it until a consensus could be reached.
As to PIPA, it looks like our Senators are hearing from their constituents and donors:
http://www.opencongress.org/articles/view/2461-Si…
Whether Harry Reid will listen is another matter.
Here is a list of co-sponors (Patrick Leahy sponsored). I am disappointed in more than a few.
http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/D?d112:1:./…
I think constituents are bombarding the Congress in an effort to stop SOPA. It looks like We The People are getting through. http://thehill.com/blogs/hillicon-valley/technolo…
Keep it up!
Here's a list from Pro Publica of the members of Congress who support SOPA and who are against it.
Time to make some phone calls! http://projects.propublica.org/sopa/
I am absolutely stunned that so many tea party-supported reps are behind this bill. What the hell are they thinking???