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On Jan. 18 the 01Publishing.com website will be participating in the AntiSOPA BlackOut. Wikipedia and Google will be participating as well.
What is SOPA? The so-called "Stop Online Piracy Act", a bill that if passed will allow a handful of media conglomerates to censor the web how ever they see fit. That's right, if passed the likes of Viacom, Disney, and Fox Entertainment will have the right to block websites on mere "suspicions of piracy". No actual piracy needs to have occurred.
No proof, no court order, nothing. If one of these companies sees something they don't like (or want to shut down a web-based competitor) they can just pull the plug with no burden of proof on their part. So far only a few of countries in the world impose this kind of rigid control over the web --chief amongst them being China and Iran. Clearly SOPA must be stopped. To that end January 18th,
2012 will be the largest internet protest in history. Thousands of sites across the internet, including some of the biggest in the world, will be blacking out and directing people to contact Congress to kill
the web censorship bills.
And just in case you still need convincing, both Obama AND the Tea Party movement are against this bill. If it can bring these two people to the same side of the table you KNOW it's bad.
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