[Noisebridge-discuss] Anti SOPA/PIPA Rally in SF during Internet Strike Day Tomorrow

Praveen Sinha dmhomee at gmail.com
Tue Jan 17 21:33:09 UTC 2012


Hope to make it tomorrow, but may have to be at work.  If I'm there, I'm
sort of thinking about a leafletting dispatch to the apple store in order
to reach out to the masses...

On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 1:30 PM, Olya K <krasnykh at gmail.com> wrote:

> Looks like Google came onboard
> http://torrentfreak.com/google-joins-pipa-sopa-strike-120117/
>
> Olya
>
> On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 10:37 AM, Tom <noisebridge at flamsmark.com> wrote:
>
>> Come out tomorrow to protest against SOPA and PIPA.
>> www.hackersandfounders.com/events/48317262/?eventId=48317262&action=detail
>>
>> Tomorrow, Hackers and Founders are organizing a rally to protest against
>> PIPA and SOPA, two dangerous pieces of ostensibly anti-piracy legislation
>> which would allow the US government **and** private companies to censor
>> websites without any court's involvement, just by alleging that it includes
>> one pages of infringing links.
>>
>> If this passes, the internet as we know it today would be impossible. No
>> wikis, no forums, no YouTube, and no GitHub. In fact, any site with
>> user-generated content would be impossible. These bills are a direct threat
>> to *global* freedom of speech, and the ability of people to go out an make
>> awesome stuff.
>>
>> Please join us ***tomorrow*** at ***noon***,
>>
>> near Joseph Alioto Performing Arts Piazza<http://maps.google.com/maps?q=@37.779533,-122.417244>[ Fulton and Larkin,
>>> San Francisco, CA (map<http://maps.google.com/maps?q=@37.779533,-122.417244>)
>>> ],
>>> with your very best non-violent protest shoes on,
>>>
>>
>> to remind the government that they can't censor us without a fight.
>>
>>
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