Full Length Feature - Since our nation's inception in 1776 - cold, cunning conspirators have sought to undermine our political sovereignty for their own personal profit. Behind a facade of corporate and congressional respectability, a cabal of ruthless men use extortion and murder to steal our nation's wealth and turn the United States into a fascist war-machine that inexorably threatens the entire world. But now at last, the American people are rising to unmask "THE ENEMY WITHIN"!
Friday, November 18, 2011
Thursday, November 17, 2011
PROTECT IP Act Breaks The Internet
Irony Alert: The House is holding hearings on sweeping Internet censorship legislation this week -- and it's censoring the opposition! The bill is backed by Hollywood, Big Pharma, and the Chamber of Commerce, and all of them are going to get to testify at the hearing.
But the bill's opponents -- tech companies, free speech and human rights activists, and hundreds of thousands of Internet users -- won't have a voice.
As if you need a reminder: This is the most offensive Internet legislation we've seen in years. It will give the government and corporations new powers to block Americans' access to sites that are accused of copyright infringement, force sites like YouTube to go to new lengths to police users' contributions, and put people in prison for streaming certain content online.
This sham of a hearing represents everything that's broken about our political system. Will you sign the petition at right, demanding that opponents of the Blacklist Bill be allowed to testify this week? (It'll generate an email to them too.)
PETITION TO JUDICIARY CHAIRMAN LAMAR SMITH AND RANKING MEMBER JOHN CONYERS: The so-called "Stop Online Piracy Act" will kill innovation and undermine free speech rights. You need to give the hundreds of thousands of Americans who've spoken out against it a chance to make our case at this week's hearings.
"It contains provisions that will chill innovation. It contains provisions that will tinker with the fundamental fabric of the internet. It gives private corporations the power to censor. And best of all, it bypasses due legal process to do much of it."
- James Allworth (Harvard Business School)
Ponder these statements for a few minutes..and sign the petition. Nobody owns the internet!!!
"These bills were written by the content industry without any input from the technology industry. And they are trying to fast track them through congress and into law without any negotiation with the technology industry."
- Fred Wilson (Union Square Ventures)
"SOPA, regrettably, represents a big step backward in Washington's efforts to support the digital revolution, one of the only sectors of the economy that continues to grow."
- Larry Downes (TechFreedom)
"[SOPA would] overturn the long-accepted principles and practices [of the DMCA] in favor of a one-sided enforcement mechanism that is far more broad than existing law while not attempting to protect the rights of anyone accused of copyright infringement."
- Gigi B. Sohn (President of Public Knowledge)
"It contains provisions that will chill innovation. It contains provisions that will tinker with the fundamental fabric of the internet. It gives private corporations the power to censor. And best of all, it bypasses due legal process to do much of it."
- James Allworth (Harvard Business School)
"The main "enforcement" mechanism in these bills is to put liability on third party service providers coming from the tech industry, undermining the safe harbors of the DMCA and the legal framework that has allowed tons of important internet platforms to evolve."
- Mike Masnick (TechDirt)
The Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and the PROTECT IP Act (PIPA) would ruin so much of what's best about the Internet: They will give the government and corporations new powers to block Americans' access to sites that are accused of copyright infringement, force sites like YouTube to go to new lengths to police users' contributions, and put people in prison for streaming certain content online.
There's a good chance this legislation will pass – but Senator Ron Wyden is a steadfast opponent, and he says he'll try to block it by filibustering if it comes up for a vote.
SOPA is heavily supported by Hollywood producers, the recording industry, and large media companies are loosing their asses because with the internet and computers artist can produce and sell their own products with out big corporations taking a bigger cut then the artist get, this is a way to protect their copyrighted materials, this is bogus because there is copyright infringement laws already for that now. .
http://stopcensorship.org/?source=fb
The below is a list of those involved who received donations from the companies backing the Bill and how much. Need I say more? It's already decided.
Rep. Steny Hoyer [D, MD-5] $178,450
Rep. Eric Cantor [R, VA-7] $157,850
Rep. James Clyburn [D, SC-6] $139,750
Rep. Anna Eshoo [D, CA-14] $134,200
Rep. John Boehner [R, OH-8] $134,150
Rep. Xavier Becerra [D, CA-31] $120,594
Rep. Henry Waxman [D, CA-30] $119,700
Rep. Michael Capuano [D, MA-8] $113,450
Rep. Jay Inslee [D, WA-1] $105,900
Sen. Harry Reid [D, NV] $486,700
Sen. Charles Schumer [D, NY] $473,500
Sen. Barbara Boxer [D, CA] $368,289
Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand [D, NY] $352,525
Sen. Patrick Leahy [D, VT] $346,000
Sen. Michael Bennet [D, CO] $243,068
Sen. Patty Murray [D, WA] $195,459
Sen. Richard Burr [R, NC] $185,900
Sen. Roy Blunt [R, MO] $155,300
Sen. Charles Grassley [R, IA] $141,700
Click here to sign the petition: http://americancensorship.org/?action_comment=I+am+a+constituent+and+I+urge+you+to+reject+the+Internet+Blacklist+Bills+%28PROTECT+IP+Act+in+the+Senate+and+the+Stop+Online+Piracy+Act+in+the+House%29.++%0D%0A%09%09%09%0D%0AI+do+%2Anot%2A+want+the+government+to+have+the+power+to+block+websites.+%0D%0A%09%09%09%0D%0AThe+Internet+Blacklist+bill+will+open+the+sites+I+love+to+crushing+lawsuits%2C+and+kill+jobs+in+the+tech+sector.++I+urge+you+to+join+Senator+Wyden+and+other+members+of+Congress+in+opposi
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