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The Stop Online Priracy Act (SOPA) looks on course to pass later this month. The implications are pretty serious for internet users. The following quote shows who will be vulnerable to SOPA:
Although the House is supposed to be the mid-winter recess, representatives like House Judiciary Chairman Lamar Smith (R-Texas) continue acting as lobbyists on behalf of SOPA's financers rather than acting on our behalf as elected representatives. Please help thwart the undue influence of media businesses who are trying to circumvent the will of the average American via SOPA. Fight SOPA and tell Congress they need a more effective, less destructive law to handle online piracy.
SOPA can and will effect fanworks and the sites that post and host them. People you know, art you admire, writing you've done, websites like AO3, YouTube, LiveJournal, Dreamwidth, InsaneJournal, Photobucket, Image Shack, Google, deviantArt, Vimeo, reddit- basically any website with user submitted content WILL be affected.
Websites without user submitted content (i.e. hulu, netflix, etc.) will be unaffected.
This means that the wild, adorable, terrifying, romantic, otherworldly, realistic, deeply personal, glamorous, infuriating, magical, poetic perspectives that we take on canon will be vulnerable to blocking and blacklisting, lawsuits and censorship.
I don't know about anyone else but I would sure miss you guys and your wonderful imaginations, talent and heart.
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nrrrdy_grrrl has collected a lot of information on her journal. I strongly suggest you go over to her journal and take a look. Our internet world could be very seriously changed. And not for the better...
Although the House is supposed to be the mid-winter recess, representatives like House Judiciary Chairman Lamar Smith (R-Texas) continue acting as lobbyists on behalf of SOPA's financers rather than acting on our behalf as elected representatives. Please help thwart the undue influence of media businesses who are trying to circumvent the will of the average American via SOPA. Fight SOPA and tell Congress they need a more effective, less destructive law to handle online piracy.
SOPA can and will effect fanworks and the sites that post and host them. People you know, art you admire, writing you've done, websites like AO3, YouTube, LiveJournal, Dreamwidth, InsaneJournal, Photobucket, Image Shack, Google, deviantArt, Vimeo, reddit- basically any website with user submitted content WILL be affected.
Websites without user submitted content (i.e. hulu, netflix, etc.) will be unaffected.
This means that the wild, adorable, terrifying, romantic, otherworldly, realistic, deeply personal, glamorous, infuriating, magical, poetic perspectives that we take on canon will be vulnerable to blocking and blacklisting, lawsuits and censorship.
I don't know about anyone else but I would sure miss you guys and your wonderful imaginations, talent and heart.
nrrrdy_grrrl has collected a lot of information on her journal. I strongly suggest you go over to her journal and take a look. Our internet world could be very seriously changed. And not for the better...
