Thread: *IMPORTANT* Everyone in the US should read this!

On November 16th, the "Stop Online Piracy Act" will be heard in Congress. This legislation, in addition to the Senate's "Protect IP Act," completely undermine and fundamentally change the core principles of the Web. They have the potential to radically alter or shut down sites like YouTube, Flickr, 4chan, Reddit and all new companies that follow.



Tell your representative to vote against this here: American Censorship Day November 16 - Join the fight to stop SOPA


The full bill can be found here: Stop Online Piracy Act - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaPlease take a few minutes to help prevent this bill, especially if you live in the US.

If this bill passes, you could see jail time even for streaming copyrighted material (like everyone does on YouTube) And it gives the american ISP's the right to filter out sites based on domain name.

I urge everyone to spread this story, and vote against this at the provided link!
I also hope that TI staff sees that this is important enough for /index.php


Story rewritten from BTN

The industry associations and there political lackeys try to push an Internet censorship and kill-switch bill through legislation every couple of months. If they succeed, it will not affect the USA alone, so it is highly recommended to join — Demand Progress and support their initiatives in whatever way we can.