Definitely. I would hate to see Amirite with half of its posts censored.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

wait WHAT?! what are they going to censor??!! :O

by Anonymous 12 years ago

They're gonna try to block certain sites. I don't know details.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

http://www.cinemablend.com/pop/American-Censorship-Day-Fight-Save-Free-Speech-Internet-37059.html

by Anonymous 12 years ago

my cousin posted this earlier, she's very brilliant and well worded, so this is a good summary: Today, the Protect IP/E-Parasite bill goes to congress. I'm not usually one to get all uppity about stuff but... If you don't know about it, you should seriously google it. Anti-Piracy is fine but the bill is poorly written and extends it's fingers far enough to make things like singing a cover song on youtube or places like tumblr a thing of the past... And a crime. Without a doubt, this can change the internet as we know it by violating our right to free speech. Okay, I'm done being all soapboxy.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Very brilliant and well worded?

by Anonymous 12 years ago

I think I can deal with Facebook being censored... But amirite? Not so muh...

by Anonymous 12 years ago

From cinemablend: In essence, if a corporation’s attorney sees something, anything on your website he doesn’t like, he’d have the legal right to shut your website down whether you’re guilty or not. In the past what happened instead was that the copyright holder would send a DMCA claim, which then gave the website owner time to remove whatever potentially infringing content was found on their site. Speaking from experience, the truth is that even now a large percent of the DMCA claims sent out are actually bogus. We’ve gotten some of that type ourselves here on Cinema Blend, notices claiming copyright infringement when there was none, notices which were actually just some over-eager corporate attorney trying to use legal scare tactics in an attempt to limit our right to free speech. Now those attorneys won’t need to use scare tactics, they’ll simply pull the plug, whenever they feel like it. Guilty until proven innocent. Unlike a lot of the more extreme and ridiculous internet censorship legislation which has run through the United States Congress over the years, by all accounts this one has a very real chance of passing. This in spite of the fact that dozens of...

by Anonymous 12 years ago

law professors have pronounced the entire bill unconstitutional. But governments and corporations want control over what you're allowed to say, and they still haven’t found a way to get a real stranglehold over the internet. If SOPA passes, they’ll get it. If it goes through, many of the sites you visit now, even sites like Facebook and Tumblr, will no longer be able to exist. The only way to stop it, is to take action. Get more information and join the protest against the Stop Online Piracy Act by visiting AmericanCensorship.org. Better yet, write your local representative and let them know that you oppose the Stop Online Piracy Act.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

DO NOT WANT. (censorship, that is)

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Apparently Obama said that if it does get passed he will veto it.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

add to censorship group!

by Anonymous 12 years ago