18th the internet black out (stop censorship in US!)

[Eudemon]

I'm sure many of you have heard the bill SOPA(stop online privacy act) that made its way to congress

the bill(if passed) will give copyright holders the power to block websites etc etc (yeah we're probably one of targets)

while protecting copyright from infringement is a good thing, but this bill gives them too much control

threaten online businesses, and obviously it's a violation to our freedom (search engines result censored, deny access to some websites etc etc)

imagine small thing like a member posting a link and cause the whole site being blocked

if you wanna read more details about this act check out these sites

http://americancensorship.org/

http://savehosting.org/

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2011/10/sopa-hollywood-finally-gets-chance-break-internet

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stop_Online_Piracy_Act

As of today, Wednesday Jan. 18th

thousands of websites go dark to protest against SOPA&PIPA(protect ip act)

so here i visited some of the contribute sites, and took some screenshots

WIKIPEDIA

Mozilla

[img width=343 height=180]http://i282.photobucket.com/albums/kk241/Eudemon_Randy/4-5.jpg

Google

[img width=381 height=180]http://i282.photobucket.com/albums/kk241/Eudemon_Randy/2-8.jpg

Wordpress

[img width=304 height=180]http://i282.photobucket.com/albums/kk241/Eudemon_Randy/3-7.jpg

Namecheap

[img width=329 height=180]http://i282.photobucket.com/albums/kk241/Eudemon_Randy/5-2.jpg

Wikia

[img width=432 height=180]http://i282.photobucket.com/albums/kk241/Eudemon_Randy/6-1.jpg

and of course there are tons of others

there are also others who oppose but didn't join the blackout like Yahoo, Facebook, AOL, Ebay, Amazon etc etc

what? how about us? this post says it

just a video

Article by Eudemon