Hey everyone!
This blog sure is going great isn’t it! Who knew what a photographer my mom was. I’m impressed!
I’m here for less fun matters though I’m afraid.
There is a bill in congress called SOPA which stands for Stop Online Piracy Act.
That all sounds well and good but it’s not honest. What the bill really does is it gives the US Government a blank check to close any site at any time.
The same type policy that created “the great firewall of China”. It introduces a censored internet for America.
SOPA is an all encompassing entity to the point that it includes almost any site where people can post their own things.
That means from Facebook, to Twitter, to even a humble blog like my mothers.
This means that the government can and will enforce the law very selectively, which is the entire danger of the bill: it’s a blank check.
They can remove wikileaks because some article they link to has “copyrighted material”, or take down the site of a political watchdog group because “one of their videos has copyright music playing in the background”.
The lack of due process also allows the possibility that if a site hosts something the government doesn’t agree with, they can just block it from anyone in America seeing it.
This is a very serious and dangerous bill. If this passes we are handing over our individual freedoms even more.
Guys, this should scare you. It’s a scary thing. Government censorship on a massive scale in AMERICA. This on the heels of the indefinite detention act, we will soon have less freedoms than the average Chinese citizen.
Call or write your congressman, tell your friends, do something, but the time is now to take a stand.
-Garrett
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