新的黎明在新的AMERIKA的天际
A few different websites have "gone dark" today in in order to highlight the pending Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA, in the House) and the PROTECT IP Act (PIPA, in the Senate). Wikipedia, Google, Reddit, Wired, and others all have their own statements or mini-protests with information on more and ways to contact your representatives on the issue.
https://www.google.com/landing/takeaction/
http://townhall.com/tipsheet/kevinglass/2012/01/18/stopping_sopa_website_blackouts_in_protest_of_online_piracy_bill
The bills would empower the attorney general to create a blacklist of sites to be blocked by Internet service providers, search engines, payment providers and advertising networks, all without a court hearing or a trial. The House version goes further, allowing private companies to sue service providers for even briefly and unknowingly hosting content that infringes on copyright — a sharp change from current law, which protects the service providers from civil liability if they remove the problematic content immediately upon notification. The intention is not the same as China’s Great Firewall, a nationwide system of Web censorship, but the practical effect could be similar.
The House bill would also emulate China’s system of corporate “self-discipline,” making companies liable for users’ actions. The burden would be on the Web site operator to prove that the site was not being used for copyright infringement. The effect on user-generated sites like YouTube would be chilling.
Eyes wide shut for a different kinda "transparency " coming to you soon or not...
YOUR CHOICE !!!! Copy and repost , keep it going...
Blessings,Flora
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OH so very true, Flora, American have to start paying attention to what this incumbent Administration is doing--We are LOSING RIGHTS. Once they are lost they are lost forever. "Eyes Wide Shut" indeed!
I thought we should all show solidarity as artists ,simply because we as artists can be the most effective and in the end we are the most affected.Thanks so much Lyn for taking the time to stop in and comment!!!
Blessings,Flora
I'm so glad people are stepping up and bringing awareness to this. Do we seriously need even more rules and control?? what the heck is the matter with these idiots? We need to realize that this is not some innocent law, it will turn into internet censorship, please, let's not give them any more power! we have lost enough of our personal freedoms and rights already, which we will never get back without a fight.
Hello Betty and Thank you so much for taking the time to voice your opinion too, it is very WELCOMED and needed!!! I am always hesitant to get political but sometimes you gotta do what you gotta do with EYES WIDE OPEN.
Blessings,Flora
I've always said this will be remembered as the Golden Age of the internet, that at some point someone will catch on to all this amazing, creative, informative FREE stuff we all create, and try to own it. We need to make sure they aren't successful.
Oh, and see my big smile? Your blog is playing 'Let's Spend an Evil Night Together'. Hubby and I love that song!
Hello Rhissana!!!Unfortunately the powers that be, don't much like this kinda free ? I have hope that together we can all make a difference, in anything.
Jill Tracey is one of my favorite artists, I had one more of her songs but sadly it isn't on playlist anymore...Thank you for visiting me and for the comment, I had a different answer to post but decided this one was much less inflammatory...sigh...
Blessings,Flora
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