Raging Grannies Come Out Against SOPA/PIPA
from the don't-upset-your-grandmother dept
Even a group of (very politically active) grandmothers have come out against SOPA/PIPA. They note that it's rare that they agree with internet companies like Google & Facebook (they've protested both companies in the past), but that this is a very important issue to them:The language in both of these bills is written with a very broad paintbrush. Their passage would have a huge impact on the work of human rights advocates who speak out against injustice on sites that could easily be labelled “rogue” websites. It’s a slippery slope when censorship reigns.
The indymedia network that thrives on open publishing (and our favorite www.indybay.org here in the San Francisco Bay Area) would be subject to censorship, defeating the very purpose of its existence. Similar platforms created to provide anonymity to whistleblowers could become major casualties of these bills.
All to save Hollywood’s bottom line?
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Filed Under: barbara boxer, dianne feinstein, grandmothers, internet, pipa, protect ip, raging grannies, sopa
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Either senility has set in or they get their news on the bills from Masnick.
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If they get their news from Mike they'd realize that .org domains aren't covered by this bill.
If senility has set in they have memory holes that are far more effective than anything the government is likely to do.
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I think one of the big problems with SOPA/PIPA as written would be the steady expansion of what sorts of domestic sites have to "participate", as it were, in the squeeze on foreign sites. I wonder: how long would it be before some company claimed that even a blog like indybay or Techdirt can't link to a sopa'd site in their coverage of it? Not long, I imagine. And that would be a step on the path towards requiring all blogs to filter those links from their comments, at which point you have a de facto national blacklist.
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Now you got my curiosity up about .org's. PTheirateBay.org have a loophole now? ;)
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Howzaboutdat!
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Everyone's against it!
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Cookie hater.
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How would your grandmother react to you telling her that she is "comically irrelevant "?
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The more who dislike Censorship the better.And maybe the better chance to throw out of Government those who did support it and would have loved to take away all of our Freedoms.
We will now come after those in Washington who would support SOPA/PIPA ! Your donation amounts from Hollywood are outed.Your stance is outed.Hope you are also outed from holding Office again.You corrupt individuals have crossed the American Line with your BS Censorship.
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Grannies and SOPA
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Jokes apart, it's good to see them connected and active at this age. They could teach a thing or two for older ppl all around the world.
MAFIAA will disregard them as senile. Oh wait, our friendly troll up there already did it ;)
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