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How to: ?Go dark? on Jan 18 to fight SOPA/PIPA | Digg Technology
Forum sites like ours will be in great danger of getting shut down if you guys don't contact your state rep and tell them to vote against SOPA and PIPA. Hopefully the typical American trend of inaction doesn't kill the way we all use the web. The large corporations are about to dictate what you can and cannot view online, all in a big power grab fueled by profits. Write a letter folks. Do it quick.
Why will sites like ours be targets for the big corporations? Read that article. It says that any sites that even link to sites which have been accused of copyright infringement can be shut down. That makes every forum site, blog, and any other site that allows user contributed content fair game. As well as sites like eBay, Wikipedia, Craigslist, YouTube, etc. There's a reason all the big websites are strongly opposed to these bills. This is a BIG deal folks. Only you can help stop it.
Life as you know it on the web will change drastically. Please take action people. Good resources will go away overnight once the big corporations get this law implemented. Write a letter to your state representative.
How to find out who your representative is - enter your zip code on this page:
https://writerep.house.gov/writerep/welcome.shtml
Google who your state Senator is, if you don't know. Send them the same letter. I've written letters to mine already. The bills should not allow sites to be shut down without due process - the onus should be on the accuser to prove their case, not the defendant to prove their innocence while the site is shut down. The smaller sites will have no recourse to prove their innocence. Forum sites will be the big losers in all of this.
Forum sites like ours will be in great danger of getting shut down if you guys don't contact your state rep and tell them to vote against SOPA and PIPA. Hopefully the typical American trend of inaction doesn't kill the way we all use the web. The large corporations are about to dictate what you can and cannot view online, all in a big power grab fueled by profits. Write a letter folks. Do it quick.
Why will sites like ours be targets for the big corporations? Read that article. It says that any sites that even link to sites which have been accused of copyright infringement can be shut down. That makes every forum site, blog, and any other site that allows user contributed content fair game. As well as sites like eBay, Wikipedia, Craigslist, YouTube, etc. There's a reason all the big websites are strongly opposed to these bills. This is a BIG deal folks. Only you can help stop it.
Life as you know it on the web will change drastically. Please take action people. Good resources will go away overnight once the big corporations get this law implemented. Write a letter to your state representative.
How to find out who your representative is - enter your zip code on this page:
https://writerep.house.gov/writerep/welcome.shtml
Google who your state Senator is, if you don't know. Send them the same letter. I've written letters to mine already. The bills should not allow sites to be shut down without due process - the onus should be on the accuser to prove their case, not the defendant to prove their innocence while the site is shut down. The smaller sites will have no recourse to prove their innocence. Forum sites will be the big losers in all of this.