We need your help prevent United States Senate Bill 968 (PIPA) and HR 3261 (SOPA) from becoming U.S. law. These bills are essentially a technical solution (a flawed one) for a business problem. These laws would short-circuit due process of existing laws and provide a sledge hammer for businesses to take down their competitors. These laws are the wrong solution for the described problem. A group of Internet inventors and engineers have voiced their opinion in an open letter to Congress stating their opposition to the SOPA and PIPA bills. Ironically some provisions in these bills would attack Free Speech in ways we condemn in China and Iran.
We need you to help over come the well funded lobbying effort to create these laws! Some opponents of PIPA and SOPA: Google, Yahoo, Wikipedia, craigslist, Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, eBay, AOL, Mozilla, Reddit, Tumblr, Etsy, Zynga, EFF, ACLU, Human Rights Watch, Darrell Issa (R-CA), Ron Wyden (D-OR), Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), Ron Paul (R-TX), Tim O’Reilly.
To find out how you representative is voting go to SOPA Opera to find out. Then contact them and tell them how you feel about keeping the Internet a fair and open place to socialize and work.
Here are some of the people and companies that are working against your interests and for their own profit: RIAA, MPAA, News Corp, Time Warner, Walmart, Nike, Tiffany, Chanel, Rolex, Sony, Juicy Couture, Ralph Lauren, VISA, Mastercard, Comcast, ABC, Dow Chemical, Monster Cable, Teamsters, Rupert Murdoch, Lamar Smith (R-TX), John Conyers (D-MI), Michael F. Bennet (D-CO).