Market
Skeptics will be joining the SOPA Strike
and going dark on Wednesday January 18 to protest the
US Government efforts to censor the Internet.
Daily
Paul explains what
is going on.
Daily
Paul Goes Dark - Wednesday January 18 - SOPA/PIPA Strike
Submitted by Michael
Nystrom on Tue, 01/17/2012 - 12:19
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On January 18, The Daily Paul will
join Wikipedia, Reddit, Twitter, BoingBoing, MoveOn.org, The Free Software
Foundation, and tens of thousands of other websites around the Internet in
going dark to oppose SOPA and PIPA, the looming US legislation that would create
an impossible Internet censorship regime and export it to the rest of the
world.
In a post-SOPA world, out-links from the
Daily Paul to any other website would be prohibited unless I was completely,
100% positive that there was no copyright infringing content on those websites. This means no more
linking to YouTube, Twitter, TVPC, WordPress, Blogger, or any other
user-content generated website -- including your personal blog -- lest I
personally face the pain of being
shut down, my finances frozen, the DailyPaul.com domain confiscated, having my
IP address blacklisted, and eventually -- who knows -- probably
being put into a cage for the protection of there rest of society.
In other words, if SOPA passes, say
goodbye to our little community here at the Daily Paul. This website would go dark for good.
Such a bleak future is corporatism at its worst, and is what Dr. Paul has
warned us against: Big Business getting
into bed with Big Government to force submission to their goal of controlling every
last aspect of our lives, including what we are
able to read and speak here on this last bastion of freedom - the Internet.
… the beauty of the internet is freedom. Is it any wonder that The Powers That
Be want to put an end to it?
The time to make the stand is now. Please
help spread the word about the SOPA Strike. Encourage other websites you frequent to
participate in the strike. And by all means, call
and write your representatives to let them know where you stand on the issue of
Internet censorship.
This must not stand. The future is in your
hands.
My reaction: Please help spread the word about
the SOPA Strike! Call
and write your representatives to oppose this Internet censorship!
Eric you are getting sidetracked. Stick to the food story. You have skin on the line there with your Russian farmland. The CBOT/Reuters/Bloomberg fraud continues and it is hitting your (and my) hip pocket ... the world is runnning on empty with grain stocks.