I have seen enough! Fabricating incidents so that wars can be fought; taking all privacy and right to due process from us in the name of national security; pipelines of our communication on a straight line to Maryland to protect us from terrorists; bailouts that paid for bonuses for the one percent; America sold for oil, gas and nuclear power; crumbling infrastructure while members of Congress drive Lexus; more and more homeless, many of them veterans, while our president takes his friends to Hawaii in Air Force One.
In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist. Dwight D. Eisenhower
This SOPA and PIPA are the kicker. I mean, if we take this, we might as well hand in our guns, sign over our cars and donate our houses to the military industrial complex.
websites could be taken down because the Justice Department (DoJ) says the site is conducting infringing activities
The Congress and the House of Representatives have come up two separate bills to further curtail our freedoms. I guess it is just too hard for the poor peeps to tackle something important, like sending jobs overseas, corruption on capitol hill, the environmental dangers posed by fracking and the XL pipeline, climate change, the disappearing middle class, etc.
Oh, but they have time to write the bills that will take away the few pleasures left to the public that is struggling to work, live and pay taxes.
Congress is about to pass Internet censorship, even though the vast majority of Americans are opposed to it. We need to kill the bills – PIPA in the Senate and SOPA in the House – to protect our rights to free speech, privacy, and prosperity.
S.968 – PROTECT IP Act of 2011
PIPA -Establishes process by which a
. The DoJ or the copyright owner would begin legal action and the DoJ could demand that search engines, social networking sites and domain name services block access to the targeted site.This could all be done without anyone being heard by a judge.
Stop Protect IP Adresses (PIPA) – Read the bill here.
H.R.3261 – Stop Online Piracy Act
SOPA – Basically the same as PIPA, with some additions: . . . against any site they deem to have “only limited purpose or use other than infringement,” . . . It would also make unauthorized web streaming of copyrighted content a felony with a possible penalty up to five years in prison. This bill combines two separate Senate bills — S.968 and S.978.
Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) - Read the bill here.
People are saying these bills will break the Internet. In protest many of the large websites, like Wikipedia are “blacking out” their websites tomorrow 1/18. I have decided I will add this post to all my blogs as a public service announcement,
