[UCIMC-Tech] [Imc-web] Q: should we blacken our homepage t in protest of SOPA tomorrow?
Mike Lehman
rebelmike at earthlink.net
Wed Jan 18 15:08:09 CST 2012
Not to get into RFU's biz, but the transmitter is busted, that's all.
Someone ought to correct this.
Mike
On 1/18/2012 10:08 AM, Brian Dolinar wrote:
> WRFU is circulating on Facebook that they are off the air due to
> support of blackout. But News-Gazette had something up on their web
> site that the WRFU transmitter was out, quoting someone from WRFU.
> Don't know who to believe...
>
> BD
>
> On Wed, Jan 18, 2012 at 9:45 AM, Chris Ritzo <chris.ritzo at gmail.com
> <mailto:chris.ritzo at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
> The blackout is in effect now. If someone wants to draft a message
> to go with it, I'll put it up.
>
> On Wed, Jan 18, 2012 at 9:16 AM, Mike Lehman
> <rebelmike at earthlink.net <mailto:rebelmike at earthlink.net>> wrote:
>
> Since there wasn't any announcement prior to this, there
> should be something posted after the fact to explain what we
> did. The blackout without any explanation is confusing,
> although some readers will guess why.
> Mike
>
>
> On 1/17/2012 11:33 PM, Danielle Chynoweth wrote:
>> Should we black out our ucimc.org <http://ucimc.org> site
>> tomorrow? Wikipedia, Reddit and many of our allies in media
>> justice have already gone dark with messages about the
>> dangers of SOPA. Thoughts? - Danielle
>>
>>
>> Momentum Builds Against SOPA and PIPA
>>
>>
>> Tomorrow you might be wondering who turned out the lights.
>> Don’t worry — it will simply be one of the biggest days in
>> the history of the open Internet.
>>
>> Thousands of websites — including Wikipedia, reddit,
>> BoingBoing, FreePress.net and SavetheInternet.com — will go
>> dark <http://sopastrike.com/> to protest the Stop Online
>> Piracy Act (SOPA) and Protect IP Act (PIPA), bills in the
>> House and Senate that could open the door to widespread
>> censorship online.
>>
>> Meanwhile, hundreds of supporters of the open Internet will
>> gather outside the Manhattan offices of New York Senators
>> Chuck Schumer and Kirsten Gillibrand to urge them — both are
>> sponsors of PIPA — to change course and oppose this legislation.
>>
>> Millions of Internet users have succeeded in slowing down the
>> Hollywood-funded momentum of these bills. A House vote on
>> SOPA has now been indefinitely postponed
>> <http://thehill.com/blogs/hillicon-valley/technology/204167-sopa-shelved-until-consensus-is-found>.
>> And the mainstream media, which had largely failed to cover
>> <http://www.savetheinternet.com/blog/12/01/17/blog/12/01/09/news-networks-sopa-blackout>
>> what is arguably the biggest tech story of the year, are
>> finally waking up. Last weekend, MSNBC’s Chris Hayes devoted
>> an entire segment
>> <http://upwithchrishayes.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/01/15/10161056-debating-sopa>
>> to a debate on the legislation. Meanwhile, Senate Majority
>> Leader Harry Reid defended PIPA
>> <http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3032608/> on /Meet the Press/
>> last Sunday (hey, at least it got covered!).
>>
>> Just in time for tomorrow’s blackout, the White House has
>> announced its opposition
>> <https://wwws.whitehouse.gov/petition-tool/response/combating-online-piracy-while-protecting-open-and-innovative-internet>
>> to provisions in both bills that pose a threat to free
>> speech. And even Google is altering its valuable homepage
>> <http://news.cnet.com/8301-31001_3-57360223-261/google-will-protest-sopa-using-popular-home-page/>
>> to include a note protesting SOPA and PIPA.
>>
>> A casual observer of all this activity — Wikipedia is really
>> going dark? Google is really changing up its homepage? —
>> might wonder what all the fuss is about. Here, in a nutshell,
>> is why tech companies, individual Internet users, members of
>> Congress and the White House have all expressed grave
>> concerns about legislation that could usher in a new wave of
>> online censorship.
>>
>> Supporters claim that SOPA and PIPA are the only way to
>> effectively fight online piracy. But while the rights of
>> content holders need to be protected, these bills are the
>> wrong way to address this issue. If they are passed,
>> corporations (with the help of the courts) will become the
>> arbiters of what is and isn’t lawful online activity, with
>> millions of Internet users swept in their nets as collateral
>> damage.
>>
>> Both bills are said to target only foreign websites that are
>> explicitly in the business of promoting copyright-infringing
>> content. But they would do much to harm the global Internet
>> <https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2012/01/how-pipa-and-sopa-violate-white-house-principles-supporting-free-speech>,
>> and a provision in both bills would allow tampering with the
>> Internet’s technical infrastructure in a way that Internet
>> engineers agree would harm online security
>> <http://boingboing.net/2011/12/15/internet-engineers-to-congress.html>.
>>
>> Another provision would empower private companies to go after
>> any website — lawful or otherwise — they accuse of infringing
>> on their copyright. Those companies could work with service
>> providers and financial institutions to shut off access to
>> the potentially offending sites, with no repercussions at all
>> if the accused site is later judged to be lawful. Meanwhile,
>> a falsely accused site could go belly up from all of the
>> legal fees needed to defend itself.
>>
>> Innocent until proven guilty, anyone?
>>
>>
>>
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