Stop American Censorship
Internet censorship is going to a vote in the Senate on January 24th (known as PIPA in the Senate and SOPA in the House). While Senators are in their home states for the January recess, we need to flood their public meetings and offices with our concerns about the bill. Learn More
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If we can have a parallel of this bill in real life, that would be "if somebody is going to curse/litter or doing something illegal in the subway, this bill will shut down the whole subway system.. LOL.. don't they see it?
After I held him on the phone for 10 minutes, telling him that this is IMPOSSIBLE that he doesn't know any of the points of people that supports the bill (even thought when I started telling him about my point "Netflix streaming, bla bla bla", he said that he know about it, and lots of people calling with the same point) he couldn't recollect even single point of people FOR the bill.
Another 10 minutes later he came up with the point, LOL.. "the people think that the internet is too open. children younger the 18 can go on the porn site", I told him that the bill has nothing to do with it, and I got no reply back. LOL
At the end of the conversation he offered to hold on the phone, and when next person that supports the bill will call, he will connect me with him and I can ask him the point myself.
- 29 minutes later - got disconnected.
- Called back
- 17 minutes later the guy picked up and told me "nobody so far, would like continue to wait?"
- 15 minutes later the guy picked up the phone and said "we just received a memo from our directors that Senator met with a lot of different people and he aware of everybody concerns, and he might adjust the bill"
- 3 minutes later guy picked up "Please hold, I will transfer you our office in Washington"
Then I Spoke with a nice young women, I asked her if she knows any points of people who are "calling to support" the bill, and she replied to me "I only got calls from people that oppose the bill, not a single "supporter". WTF?
That is just pissing me off, that there is no reason in HELL that any regular person will support censorship the Internet..
I'm tired
If Senator Schumer does not schedule a meeting, this is a good indication that he has already made up his mind.
We need to let Senator Schumer know that by ignoring us and co-sponsoring a unpopular bill, he will be facing the wrath of voters in the next election. Self preservation is the only thing that motivates some Polititions.
I am not against companies wanting to protect their intellectual property, but this bill goes way too far and gives too much power to the government to "decide" which sites are acceptable for its citizens to access. Censorship is a slippery slope which can quickly change from banning sites which pirate intellectual property to banning sites which present "ideas" that the goverment doesn't like.
You're not referring to my dear, sweet, camera-shy Uppy Chucky Schumer with the overly Botoxed forehead that makes him appropriately look like Bojo the Clown with a rhythm section of a stereotypical white boy who can't jump? Shirley, you jest!
- Originally posted to AKFIF, but contact info for Alaska politicians has been removed.
http://pastebin.com/mSkB62Fz
Included are
* links to limited, but informative coverage in the media
* links to written coverage of SOPA & PIPA (two may be offline today)
* key points highlighting threats and collateral damage that SOPA & PIPA present
@Sallie Any updates on how Friday's meeting went?
https://www.facebook.com/pages/World-against-SOPA/304313362953003?sk=info
first step:
1._ No subscriber to this group will ever buy a under copyright item
2._ No subscriber to this group will ever go to a cinema
3._ No subscriber to this group will ever buy film on pay tv
4._ No subscriber to this group will ever buy a book (paper or e-book)
5._ No subscriber to this group will ever buy a news paper
6._ No subscriber to this group will ever buy a magazine of any kind
7._ No subscriber to this group will ever buy a CD
8._ No subscriber to this group will ever buy a DVD
To all: keep up the good work! We've had a huge impact over the past 24 hours, and we need to use that momentum to reach those Senators (like Schumer) who aren't responding to their constituents' concerns. Call, email, fax, and (optimally) go to your Senators' local offices and ask for meetings and express your concerns, preferably under the banner of "New York for Internet Freedom." That'll let the Senators' staffs know that there are a lot of you out there, that you're all working together, and that they therefore cannot possibly hope to ignore you. Stay strong out there - we're making progress!
Dear Schumer, this will be forgotten.
We need to start a movement "People against Hollywood!"
We make a Facebook page, or a little site, where we pick the biggest movie that are coming out in the next couple of month, and people that will join that movement will Pledge that they are not going to see that movie (at least in the movie theater) and we'll do that every couple of month. the movie can be decided by the pool.
The biggest movies are opening with $40-$90 millions in the first weekend - with the movement growing, it will be more and more noticeable money drop to the evil Hollywood companies. And they WILL HAVE to start watching how they tread regular people.
Movies companies got OUT OF CONTROL. Now we know that they even buying US Senators. Nothing can stop them.
The only thing we have against them are us, the people.