Congress engages in Online Piracy, but wants to put Americans in jail for watching YOUTUBE

[dennydem40z]

Well its amazing Congress wants to pass an Internet Censorship Bill (Senate S.968 The Protect IP Act or PIPA, House HR 3261 The E Parasite Act or SOPA) these bills the House and Senate are proposing will have the Justice Department WITHOUT COURT ORDER shut down websites the DOJ deems as stealing copyrighted material and even posting a link to a news article or linking a Fox News or RT news video from YOUTUBE could get you thrown in jail for up to 5 years and pay a $2500.00 fine. Yet according to Worldnetdaily Congress engages in this behavior all the time and downloads illegal porn and movies for free everyday practically.

http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=381945

Yet Congress wants to throw the honest American Citizen in jail and have your Facebook page SHUT DOWN for taking a picture and putting it on Facebook of your girlfriend or boyfriend or child hugging Daffy Duck at a Six Flags theme park that Time Warner owns and Time Warner did not give give you permission to show your kid hugging a copyrighted Daffy Duck that Warner Bros owns. THIS IS CRAZY.

Also please sign this petition to let web designer and builder GODADDY.COM that you are disgusted with there support of S.968 The Protect IP act and HR 3261 The E Parasite act.

http://godaddyboycott.org/

Call Congress at 2022243121 and tell the Senate NO to S.968 THE PROTECT IP ACT or for short PIPA and the House's HR 3261 The E Parasite Act or SOPA.

THANKS:)

[FrankRep]

http://godaddyboycott.org/

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Hostgator Blog
Dec 22, 2011


Imagine if you were able to genetically combine Osama bin Laden, Saddam Hussein, Darth Vader and Barbara Streisand into one horrifically terrifying being. Now imagine that being is actually a piece of proposed legislature — the terrifying creation in your midst would then be the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) which is currently being considered by the House.

SOPA, aka H.R. 3261 is a bill right now in the House sponsored by R-TX Lamar Smith. It’s not just any bill though, it’s a bill that would allow the USDOJ, RIAA, MPAA and anyone else who lobbies for the entertainment industry to effectively censor the internet to suit their needs.

James Allworth recently wrote “Is this really what we want to do to the internet? Shut it down every time it doesn’t fit someone’s business model?” and I couldn’t agree more. Censorship is a slippery slope. Not only that but it also creates an absurd amount of bureaucratic busy work. Here at HostGator we already spend a HUGE amount of time answering DMCA (Digital Millennium Copyright Act) requests. If we allow our representatives to begin deciding what is and what isn’t ok for you to view on the internet then where will it end?

The bill itself is absurdly broad, creates a ton of liability for small to mid size e-commerce based businesses and will serve to stifle the tech industry in order to cater to lobbying groups paid by companies who refuse to adapt to a world in which free information is king (and almost as unstoppable as a force of nature).

A couple months back Godaddy CEO Bob Parsons decided to head to africa to help out the good african citizens by murdering elephants (pesky elephants!). They received so much hate in response to that you’d think they would take a more neutral tact in their views going forward. NOPE! Today Godaddy came out in support of SOPA (which is mind blowing to us as we’re both in the same sector) and they’re receiving a good amount of (well deserved) lashback:


http://www.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/nmnie/godaddy_supports_sopa_im_transferring_51_domains/


We here at HostGator support a free internet. An Internet in which free information and unhindered distribution of said information is an unalienable human right. Do the same, contact your representative and tell them to vote NO on SOPA.



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[sevin]

I always liked Host Gator. I think I'm going to remove all my domains from Godaddy because of this.