01-18-2012, 07:41 AM
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Drives: the 2nd amendment home
Join Date: May 2008
Location: OK
Posts: 14,763
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From their site this morning...
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Imagine a World
Without Free Knowledge
For over a decade, we have spent millions of hours building the largest encyclopedia in human history. Right now, the U.S. Congress is considering legislation that could fatally damage the free and open Internet. For 24 hours, to raise awareness, we are blacking out Wikipedia.
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... and imgr.com...
...reddit...
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today we fight back.
PROTECT IP / SOPA Breaks The Internet
Live Updates (feed)
Last updated 7:43am
7:40am Well played @Fark has gone WHITE in SUPPORT of SOPA/PIPA! Find out why: http://t.co/CzLWaevi #blackout– erik martin
7:04am On CNN #StartingPoint w/ @Soledad_OBrien in just a minute! Talking about the #blackout. #SOPA #PIPA– Alexis Ohanian
11:43pm "First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you...." what's next? #SOPA #PIPA #blackout– Alexis Ohanian
Dear reddit,
Today, for 12 hours, reddit.com goes dark to raise awareness of two bills in congress: H.R.3261 "Stop Online Piracy Act" and S.968 "PROTECT IP", which could radically change the landscape of the Internet. These bills provide overly broad mechanisms for enforcement of copyright which would restrict innovation and threaten the existence of websites with user-submitted content, such as reddit.
Please take today as a day of focus and action to learn about these destructive bills and do what you can to prevent them from becoming reality.
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-- Benjamin Franklin
lib·er·ty
/ˈlibərdē/
noun
1.
the state of being free within society from oppressive restrictions imposed by authority on one's way of life, behavior, or political views
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