Tomorrow I close down The Biker Blog in protest against SOPA – Stop Online Piracy Act and its sister proposal PIPA – Protect IP Act, both of which will be voted through in the U.S. unless something is done quickly. Thousands of websites, blogs and web services will go out tomorrow in protest and to show what the Internet might look like in the not too distant future if these bills are voted through.
Many of you might be thinking that “Yeah, that’s a bummer, but what they decide in the United States does not affect us here,” and while it’s easy to think so nothing could be more wrong. The Internet has no national borders and if the U.S. enforces censorship on the net, how long do you think it will take Sweden to do the same? We already have the FRA law and directives to all ISPs to save logs of IP addresses and web traffic for the authorities to take part of them.
We live in Little America, as the song goes, in the 51st State. Everything that comes to the U.S. comes to us too – it just takes a little longer.
If You don’t know much about SOPA and PIPA and what they mean You might benefit from watching the movie below.
PROTECT IP / SOPA Breaks The Internet from Fight for the Future on Vimeo.
- Stop American Censorship
- Fight For the Future
- Electronic Frontier Foundation
- Free Press
- WordPress > Help Stop SOPA/PIPA
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