Let's Help Doom SOPA!
The Stop Online Piracy Act and the Senate version PROTECT-IP Act are ruffling some feathers across industries and political aisles. I'm strongly in favor of looking at the resources below and then making up your own mind about the issue. Afterwards: Contract Your Elected Officials! Let your voice be heard, even if seems so futile by itself, these campaigns do have the possibility of push back against interests that represent more money than actual votes.
Wikipedia actually has a fairly neutral outline of the various information about the bill and how the support and opposition is breaking down. More importantly it has a great deal of references so that you can verify what was some biased guy's edit or credible information.
Last I heard both these bills are sitting in their respective judiciary committees, so starting out searching for your Rep and Senators for whether they're on those committees to let them know how you feel about these bills would be a good start.
Also worth knowing some of the business interests involved: http://thenextweb.com/insider/2011/11/17/which-tech-companies-back-sopa-microsoft-apple-and-27-others/
You'll probably have to click a link for it to show the co-sponsors to see if your Rep or Senator is among them.
I'm in opposition to these bills for some fairly basic reasons. I believe the language is far too broad which could, whether intended or not, open up the statues to abuse or unintended consequences later. All this while poorly dealing with the issues of copyright/piracy they claim to be at the heart of their concerns. Read through it, make up your own mind. Bug your Representatives and Senators and give them an earful.
Thanks to IamKing for the links. Will update later as this bill either continues to be a problem or, hopefully dies in committee.
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