We need to stop SOPA. The way the bill is currently structured it could mean an end to file sharing sites (mediafire, dropbox, etc)

If one of these sites happens to be accused of having copyrighted files on it they will blocked completly. That means anything you have stored there will not be accessible.

This will have a huge impact on open source development since we all use services like these to share our work.

For information on what you can do to help:

http://americancensorship.org


Edit: I am fully aware of all the threats to US freedom. Please try to keep this disscussion to SOPA since it will directly effect users of this forum and the open source community

Thanks in advance
Mike

dont waste your time, there are soo many bills in the US that need blocking LOL

http://www.klfy.com/story/15717759/s...and-dealer-law
National Defense Authorization Act
FDA versus everything natural
illegal wars
tsa and their nice body scanners

etc etc

looks like ron p is the only one making half sense!
help him and he might fix it

Stupid tsa and their body scanners, i got in a fight with the tsa agents in san diego over that... This is a police state, our freedoms are slowly leaving and we cant stop them, welcome to freedom at its finest...

unfortunately one man can not make much of a difference, just look at obama. I will vote for him since it seems he is the only one that understands freedom.

I dont want this thread to turn into a political soap box. SOPA is directly related to how open source works and I will pursue all avenues to protect freedom of information no matter how futile it may seem.

No offence but its attitudes like dont waste your time that keep us all repressed.

Too late now.

Well, if every voter thinks like this, no wonder the representatives feel they can do whatever they want.

When I met Michael Badnarik and his supporters back
as he was stumping to run I was also deluded
that there was still hope.

Michael, like Ron Paul (and many others) so consistently says,
held that we did not need more new laws as much as we simply
needed to abide by the Constitution.

It was as I discussed this with Badnarik that
I began to realize that every law chips away at freedom.
and that utlimately there is no solution
in the Babel Towers of legislation that people yearn to
impose on others and, in lip service only, on themselves.

The problem I began to see clearly was that the population mass
has a vector that is programmed into virtually everyone stateside:
'Every problem has a legislative solution' - this is
a mental algorithm which can only lead to catastrophic complexity.

I left the U.S. in deep depression at what I witnessed thereafter

I do wish you well in your hopes,
but the reality is that you are prisoners now of a groupthink
mentality that cannot be altered in its current course.
The mathematics of social physics ensure that inevitability.

Isaac Asimov clearly illustrated this problem
in his epic Foundation trilogy.

Furthermore, Asimov's ideas about the Three Laws of Robotics
illustrate the issue of how almost no one can resist the
temptation to 'fix things' by simply adding yet another law.

And that is how I came to understand that
in this universe there exists only one law.

/soapbox off

now back to cracking that Gentoo install
on that poulsbo-addled tablet I bought
before I fell in love with the n900

oh yea i heard about that months ago,people really need to understand and realise what SOPA is.Sadly I don't see that much people informed about it.

obviously the net issue is a big deal around the world, with more governments wanting to block sites.

Here in Australia they wanted to put in a mandatory firewall.
I think they will success when the government fiber optics comes online.

Anyway, my point was that even if this bill doesn't pass... there'll be another around the corner.. maybe even on christmas... after a massive DoS attack.

I mentioned Ron Paul because if all these groups suggested voting for him, then he'd have more votes and maybe win.

Nice!

After a reddit user found that godaddy was supporting SOPA, the backlash started. Users of godaddy start transfering their domains, most notably Wikipedia. After a short stand, about 24hrs, godaddy pulled their support.

I know it is the holidays but please if you havent already, or feel like doing it again contact your local official and let them know that SOPA is not acceptable.

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/n...t-for-sopa.ars