So long, PIPA... stocking.. something. Long live the internets

redfenix

So, SOPA (and PIPA) are fucking horrible, and you should care, even if you're not a damn yank.

Why?

SOPA:
Opponents say that it violates the First Amendment, is Internet censorship,will cripple the Internet,and will threaten whistle-blowing and other free speech actions.Opponents have initiated a number of protest actions, including petition drives, boycotts of companies that support the legislation, and planned service blackouts by major Internet companies scheduled to coincide with the next Congressional hearing on the matter.

PIPA:
a proposed law with the stated goal of giving the US government and copyright holders additional tools to curb access to "rogue websites dedicated to infringing or counterfeit goods", especially those registered outside the U.S.

People that think it's fucking dumb:
Google
Reddit
Imgur
Mojang
Wikipedia
A longer list:

reddit
NetCoalition
Consumer Electronics Association
Computer and Communications Industry Association
Public Knowledge
Electronic Frontier Foundation
EDUCAUSE
Center for Democracy & Technology
Open Internet Coalition
Bloomberg
Google
Yahoo
Business Software Alliance
Facebook
AOL
Marc Andreessen, co-founder of Netscape and Andreessen Horowitz
Sergey Brin, co-founder of Google
Jack Dorsey, co-founder of Twitter and Square
Caterina Fake, co-founder of Flickr and Hunch
David Filo, co-founder of Yahoo!
Reid Hoffman, co-founder of LinkedIn
Arianna Huffington, co-founder of The Huffington Post
Chad Hurley, co-founder of YouTube
Brewster Kahle, founder of the Internet Archive and co-founder of Alexa Internet
Elon Musk, co-founder of PayPal
Craig Newmark, founder of craigslist
Pierre Omidyar, founder of eBay
Biz Stone, co-founder of Obvious and Twitter
Jimmy Wales, founder of Wikipedia and the Wikimedia Foundation
Evan Williams, co-founder of Blogger and Twitter
Jerry Yang, co-founder of Yahoo!
Alexis Ohanian, co-founder of reddit
Progressive Change Campaign Committee
Tumblr
Mozilla
Union Square Ventures
MoveOn
Wikimedia Foundation
eBay
Paul Graham, founder Viaweb and Y Combinator

Let's talk about it.

Tossrock

why do you hate job creators, redfenix

Solar

SOPA is a bad thing

/thread

fightinfilipino

you forgot to add Wikipedia to that "people who think it's dumb" list.

on Wednesday, Wikipedia is going dark in protest.

also, PIPA is going to be the sneaky backdoor way they'll get this bill passed. ugh.

Farthing

I think it is so ballsy for jimbo wales to take down wikipedia.

stick it to the man, jim!

LTM

There's only one Pippa I care about.

Dark Raven X

I thought SOPA died yesterday. Why are people still talking about blackouts and stuff like SOPA is still a thing?

EDIT: yeah - http://www.techweekeurope.co.uk/news/us-sopa-bill-killed-in-congress-54526

Dichotomy

when the insane american government inevitably lets this happen I will sell cool, clear and refreshing Canadian Internet to my thirsty southern neighbors for the entirely reasonable price of 50c (canadian) a megabyte

Big Red Tie

riot games also is against it

and it has freedom ryze as the banner art

Farthing

Dark Raven X wrote:

I thought SOPA died yesterday. Why are people still talking about blackouts and stuff like SOPA is still a thing?

I think they also would like PIPA to not be a thing

TheStig

Farthing wrote:

Dark Raven X wrote:

I thought SOPA died yesterday. Why are people still talking about blackouts and stuff like SOPA is still a thing?

I think they also would like PIPA to not be a thing

But Pipa sounds so cute.

Brolo

wikipedia is shutting down in ... less than 11 hours

better get your learn on now, chumps

Tox

Cracked has an excellent article discussion these bills.

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Dark Raven X wrote: »

I thought SOPA died yesterday. Why are people still talking about blackouts and stuff like SOPA is still a thing?

SOPA is pretty dead now, but PIPA is the same sort of bill, except for from the senate instead of the house and is still very much alive

TheStig

Rolo wrote:

wikipedia is shutting down in ... less than 11 hours

better get your learn on now, chumps

Oh shit, I still need citations for this english paper.

redfenix

shelved, not dead... i think

Seriously

TheStig wrote: »

Rolo wrote:

wikipedia is shutting down in ... less than 11 hours

better get your learn on now, chumps

Oh shit, I still need citations for this english paper.

oh

oh god this is going to be

this is going to be fucking hilarious

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redfenix wrote: »

shelved, not dead... i think

I dunno, I don't know much about lawmaking, but I doubt it'll reappear in this congress

I'm sure they'll rewrite it so we can see it again in 2013 though, under a different name.

Farthing

this will be me

thorgot

Farthing wrote:

this will be me

what's xkcd

what's sopa

JoeUser

Oh no!

Comedy network Cheezburger (host of Failblog) also said it will join in.

fightinfilipino

as if millions of college/uni/grad students cried out in terror, and were suddenly dumbened.

I Win Swordfights

"Rogue websites... outside the u.s."

They ARE trying to take away my porn!

Druhim

Solar wrote: »

SOPA is a bad thing

/thread

Exactly.

The Geek

TheStig wrote:

Rolo wrote:

wikipedia is shutting down in ... less than 11 hours

better get your learn on now, chumps

Oh shit, I still need citations for this english paper.

Man, I'm glad I already got on there to figure out from where I recognized that dude from this week's episode of Once Upon a Time.

Goose!

PIPA will die just like SOPA did.

Brolo

once wikipedia goes down I'm just gonna use conservapedia for all my knowledge:

Barack Hussein Obama II also known by the alias Barry Soetoro during his time in Indonesia[1][2] (born August 4, 1961) is the 44th President of the United States and the controversial recipient of the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize. Overcoming a short political career, Obama defeated Republican nominee John McCain for the presidency in 2008, campaigning on promises of "hope" and "change". In effect, that change has been an embrace of socialism, Marxism, and liberal policies. Barack Obama has been widely criticized by the American business community and others for his anti-business policies that are killing American jobs during a period of high unemployment.[3] Trend forecaster Gerald Celente indicates that Obama administration's response to the the failed American economy is more war and the creation of misleading economic statistics.[4]

Under President Obama's mismanagement of the economy, the United States Government's credit rating has, for the first time in it's history, been downgraded from AAA to AA+, and poverty[5] has increased markedly. By and large his policies to combat the recession, unemployment, slow growth, the deficit, and expanding national debt, have failed.[6] Also on the domestic front, Obama passed an expensive health care bill in 2009 with no bipartisan support and 34 Democrats dissenting. In foreign policy Obama has escalated the Afghanistan War and, against his own Defense Secretary's advice, attacked Libya - a possible violation of the War Powers Act. After he announced the killing of September 11th mastermind and terrorist Osama bin Laden, the U.S. State Department warned of the increased risk to the lives and safety of Americans around the world.[7] Bin Laden's death had negligible long term impact on Obama's approval ratings, as seen in Gallup's daily poll.[8]

facetious

I hate the original joke it's based on, but I enjoy this thread title.

redfenix

you can always google the cached version of wikipedia

now if google craps out

ugh... i dunno
we're fucked.

TheStig

Holy shit.

edit: @ rolo's post

Apolloh

Remember

according to the Republican party, our internets are being stolen by evil China

it's like the most recent Die Hard movie is a visceral reality to these people

Syphyre

Also, I believe the bill wasn't completely killed, just shelved.

TheStig

Apolloh wrote:

Remember

according to the Republican party, our internets are being stolen by evil China

it's like the most recent Die Hard movie is a visceral reality to these people

Well they thought 24 was a documentary last election, so...

Garlic Bread

facetious wrote:

I hate the original joke it's based on, but I enjoy this thread title.

it's pretty great

TheStig

oh, i just got it.

CorporateLogo

Conservapedia's stock may rise in the next 24 hours

If the next 24 hours are Opposite Day

Goose!

Syphyre wrote:

Also, I believe the bill wasn't completely killed, just shelved.

A shelved bill is effectively dead, because before they get back to that one wouldn't they have to get through all the OTHER bills they shelved?

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Big Red Tie

Hussein in the membrane is amazing

WeedLordVegeta

redfenix wrote:

shelved, not dead... i think

In modern congress, the two terms are interchangeable.

Syphyre

Goose! wrote:

Syphyre wrote:

Also, I believe the bill wasn't completely killed, just shelved.

A shelved bill is effectively dead, because before they get back to that one wouldn't they have to get through all the OTHER bills they shelved?

Mmmm, I don't believe so, but now I feel the need to go look this up.

Edit:

Hullis wrote:

redfenix wrote:

shelved, not dead... i think

In modern congress, the two terms are interchangeable.

Meh, fair enough.