SOPA! It's not just a discussion.

It's a real thing, many companies, many websites, and our very homeland is in danger!

https://www.google.com/landing/takeaction/

The vote for SOPA and PIPA will be January 24th. Cross your fingers and hope to god our homeland will not be wiped out from the face of the interwebs because of this unconstitutional bill!

These companies have all openly spoken out against the bill. Join their cause!

American Express Company
AOL
Boing Boing
BuzzFeed
CloudFlare
Copyblogger
ConsumerBell
Creative Commons
Curse
Daily Kos
deviantART
Discover
Disqus
DreamHost
Dyn
eBay
Embedly
Engine Advocacy
ESET
Etsy
Facebook
Fantagraphics
foursquare
Gandi
Google
GreenHostIt
HostGator
Hover
I Can Has Cheezburger?
IndieGoGo
Internet Archive
Irregular Times
Jive Software
Kaspersky Lab
Kickstarter
LinkedIn
MetaFilter
Mozilla
Name.com
Namecheap
OpenDNS
O’Reilly Radar
Pastebin.com
PayPal
Quora
Rackspace
Reddit
ReferralCanday
Riot Games
ServInt
Scribd
Teachers Pay Teachers
Techdirt
Torrentfreak
Tucows
Tumblr
Twitter
Ubu Web
Uservoice
Vimeo
Webs, Inc.
Wikipedia
WordPress
Yahoo!
Y Combinator
Zopim
Zynga Game Network

If SOPA would pass it would be very anti-democratic.

Which wouldn't surprise me in the least.

Rarity wrote:

I'm not going to worry about this thing because it's obvious that it won't pass. If it did, the U.S.A. would have a lot of riots on its hands.

Yes but these days nothing but Republicans rule this country these days, making sure Obama can't do shit by holding long meetings in the Senate.

ColinEtzel wrote:

E3 Supports SOPA/PIPA, boycott E3 this year as well! (for real boycott it, and encourage any gaming news sources you enjoy to do so as well, do not support or attend E3.)

Thank you Sam. ^_^

Two smaller Companies Sam missed that is openly against Sopa:
Escapist magazine
Penny Arcade

I just copy/pasta'd the list on the link I posted.

Hinaoki wrote:

If SOPA would pass it would be very anti-democratic.

Which wouldn't surprise me in the least.

Greetings from the United States of the Republicans....

Banvora Ascernia wrote:

Rarity wrote:

I'm not going to worry about this thing because it's obvious that it won't pass. If it did, the U.S.A. would have a lot of riots on its hands.

Yes but these days nothing but Republicans rule this country these days, making sure Obama can't do shit by holding long meetings in the Senate.

I seriously hope you're joking. It had bipartisan support, idiot. Plus a good amount of Republicans spoke out about it. Obama is a horrible president, deal with it.

Also, 4chan and Encyclopedia Dramatica are protesting.

*looks at government*

*slowly looks over at shotgun*

*slowly looks back at government*

*slowly grabs shotgun*

*slowly turns back to government*

*slowly loads shells into shotgun*



"I just want to talk."



*cocks shotgun*



"I JUST want to talk."

Nikku wrote:

Also, 4chan and Encyclopedia Dramatica are protesting.

So does Gaia Online :3

If Sopa passes, I'm ditching to Canada.

Also, Obama isn't that bad of a President. We could have much worse, like Herman Cain. I'm not saying I fully support Obama, I'm just glad we got him over McCain and Palin. I honestly don't care if it's a Elephant or a Donkey in the office, just someone who won't fuck up too much.

Double post, my bad.

Youtube's too backed to be knocked down, but it can be pushed back. If SOPA passes, I really don't think anyone who has common sense under the age of 40 will ever live the same lives ever again. Or a life worth living if we're constantly being pressured into all this censorship, lawsuits over ridiculous crap that has no real harm. If SOPA passes all that's going to happen is a large gateway for unlawful and immoral total control over the "free" people to pass. People will go to jail for saying "Fuck" in the streets, church and state no longer separated as much as it is now, people being dragged from their homes, soilent green makes a big debut...

I know what I'm saying might seem unrelated or exaggerated, but this will be the future we are moving towards.

People are already rioting.

Colin, I tell my friends and teachers this all the time: If we could bring the Founding Father's back from the void, you'd see George Washington breaking down the door of the White House with his white steed and killing everyone inside, then moving into the other governmental buildings with the other Father's killing them all. And then they'll try to bring back the United States as it SHOULD BE :3 They've already rolled over in their graves, now their just pissed.... And dust >.>....

Saiteiru wrote:

People are already rioting.

Good.

Going to Canada would fix nothing, lol. Canada licks up the USA's semen like it is candy. Also, I don't think SOPA alone is enough to induce rioting. However, the NDAA and SOPA/PIPA together would certainly anger people to no end.

Also, to clarify:

SOPA is intended to block our access to foreign websites.

PIPA is intended to block our access to websites hosted in the US of A.

NDAA lets the military indefinitely detain anyone they deem as being a terrorist, lol.

Also, Sam, Republicans and Democrats have nothing to do with it. It's the fact that our federal government is too weak to control anything - essentially, it is what the Confederate States of America intended to be. SOPA and PIPA are, naturally, about lobbyists wanting to save the already overly huge amounts of money they have obtained that they do nothing with, despite all the poor and starving. I'd imagine the NDAA is the federal government trying to compensate for its lack of balls.

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SOPA and PIPA are, naturally, about lobbyists wanting to save the already overly huge amounts of money they have obtained that they do nothing with, despite all the poor and starving. I'd imagine the NDAA is the federal government trying to compensate for its lack of balls.

Yeah pretty much.

Saiteiru wrote:

If Sopa passes, I'm ditching to Canada.

Also, Obama isn't that bad of a President. We could have much worse, like Herman Cain. I'm not saying I fully support Obama, I'm just glad we got him over McCain and Palin. I honestly don't care if it's a Elephant or a Donkey in the office, just someone who won't fuck up too much.

^agreed on political views.

But even then if you move to Canada, you still won't have any to none access to any website; a lot of of websites come from the USA like Youtube, Facebook etc. so you're still fucked when trying to access the web at all.

Plus, don't forget about the PROTECTIP Act too, it's the same thing but it's a "less extreme" according to the supporters. So even then we stop SOPA, we gotta stop this act too.

Just watched the SC Debate. All of them took the position that SOPA was wrong, blasted the people who drafted it, and stated that the party had taken the wrong position on it. I especially liked Gringrich's point.