[Imc-web] Q: should we blacken our homepage t in protest of SOPA tomorrow?

Wed Jan 18 16:03:30 CST 2012

Just so everyone's on the same page with RFU, I was contacted by Don
McClure and Stewart Levy about the EAS unit and the transmitter. They
wanted access to the transmitter so I let them into the server room. They
are dealing with it and have sent the transmitter to Nicom to be
updated/fixed or whatever.

Just so folks know what's going on. I would assume that Don let the NG know
about it but I don't know.

They expect the transmitter to be shipped back by sometime next week.

Chris

On Wed, Jan 18, 2012 at 3:08 PM, Mike Lehman <rebelmike at earthlink.net>wrote:

>  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>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>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 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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