But I wonder if signing this petition is going to get anyone anything except a bossy letter from the White House telling you why you are wrong.
You can report it here:
Sign Petition Against SOPA/PIPA
by breakfast of champions 13 Replies latest jw friends
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JustThatGirl007
I signed a few petitions about it and I blogged my take on it:
(Blog link in case I'm link-challenged: http://theratherunusual.blogspot.com/2012/01/sopa-pipa.html)
SOPA & PIPA
Before you read my rant below, it would be good if you read up on what it's about, first.
What Is SOPA? That's a nice, little, nutshell explanation of it all. (http://gizmodo.com/5877000/what-is-sopa)
This country was built on freedom and liberty. Freedom is defined as: The power or right to act, speak, or think as one wants without hindrance or restraint. Liberty is defined as: The state of being free within society from oppressive restrictions imposed by authority on one’s way of life.
While this country was built on those things, there are laws in place to protect us, as well. You do not have the freedom to murder someone, for example, or to take something that does not belong to you. There are also laws against things like child pornography. These laws are for our protection. They are good for us.
PIPA & SOPA do not protect the American Public. What they do is stop freedom. They stop access to information. They stop allowing people to think for themselves and make their own decisions on what they should or should not do.
These bills are nothing but censorship, which, if you haven’t got a dictionary available, is the practice of officially examining books, movies, etc., and suppressing unacceptable parts. This treads dangerously close to brainwashing. Brainwashing is defined as making someone adopt radically different beliefs by using systematic and forcible pressure.
By putting these into effect, this government is trying to think FOR me by suppressing what it deems unacceptable and then pushing me to accept their beliefs by forcible pressure. This is brainwashing through censorship.
You do not have the right to put a ‘kill switch’ on my freedom of information, on my right to free speech. YOU DO NOT HAVE THAT RIGHT.
The minute this country begins censorship by using a ‘kill switch’ for the internet is the minute this country turns it’s back on everything it allegedly stands for: Freedom.
The Declaration of Independence states the following:
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and The Pursuit of Happiness. That to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed.
What is WRONG with the government that they have lost sight of their own Declaration of Independence???
*** UPDATE: Obama Kills SOPA This is good news, but the battle is NOT OVER YET. This bill WILL come back. And PIPA is still in the works, as of 01/18/2012 ( http://www.forbes.com/sites/johngaudiosi/2012/01/16/obama-says-so-long-sopa-killing-controversial-internet-piracy-legislation/) -
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Yes, off topic I know, but in the UK many areas are getting CCTV in taxis now, already in buses where they make slightly more sense though, however, where will it all end?
Take it to the extreme and you have totalitarian government.
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JustThatGirl007
I've edited my blog post, for the record. I added a few more links.