UN Agenda 21 - Internet Censorship Karen Schoen, AgEnder First they will detain us at will, now they will censor us. Is this still America? What will it take for you to act? URGENT CALL TO ACTION ... INTERNET CENSORSHIP IS COMING TO AMERICA
Don't wait...we must hurry and get our message to Congress to PROTECT Internet Freedom!
In December, while you were busy with holiday plans, Congress was marking up a bill that will END INTERNET FREEDOM in America.
HR 3261, the "Stopping Online Piracy Act (SOPA)," and its counterpart in the Senate, "Protect IP," are bills lobbied heavily by Hollywood that will LIMIT Internet freedom and commerce-and they put our First and Fourth Amendments under assault.
SOPA will create a police-state in which the government has total control over the Internet - just like China, Iran and Syria. If the United States of America passes SOPA, we will be practicing the exact same type of censorship as these countries.
Because of the outrage of freedom-minded Americans like you, Congress put the bill on hold before they went on their holiday break. However, THEIR PLANS TO END INTERNET FREEDOM ARE STILL VERY MUCH ALIVE. They have indicated they will take up the issue again "in early January" - probably as soon as they return from their break!
Send Gadsden Flag postcards to Congress today
Support: Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA) and Sen. Ron Wyden (D-OR) have released a draft proposal of an alternative to SOPA, called the "Online Protection and Enforcement of Digital Trade Act" (OPEN)
Obama's Hollywood friends, like the Motion Picture Association of America and the Recording Industry Association of America, have pressured Obama to go after hackers stealing their work. And they are NOT backing down. Their lobbyists are working furiously to get SOPA passed. They are (rightfully) upset over copyright violations - but instead of going after the bad guys, they are going to regulate all of us good guys who are simply trying to use the internet legitimately!
Senator Wyden said, "This is a cluster bomb where you should be going in with a laser, and the collateral damage to innovation and freedom is huge."
It's been called "Orwellian" in many articles ... The Hill said it's like "curing a headache with a guillotine" ... and The Internet Commerce Association says the bill "could be a death knell for all domains that provide a platform for user-generated content."
Unprecedented government control. The end of Internet freedom. No judicial review.
You must be thinking, "Something like this will never happen in the United States of America!"
It CAN HAPPEN and it IS HAPPENING! We must up against the powerful, money-heavy Hollywood lobby and protect our freedoms.
Send Gadsden Flag postcards to Congress today
Support: Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA) and Sen. Ron Wyden (D-OR) have released a draft proposal of an alternative to SOPA, called the "Online Protection and Enforcement of Digital Trade Act" (OPEN)
SOPA is the kind of terrible legislation that Congress likes to push through quietly while American citizens are focusing on other things, like holiday planning. That is why they worked on this quietly during 2011, and then began debating it seriously during the month of December—when they knew the American people would be distracted.
The Stop Online Piracy Act will:
- Kill Innovation-no one will want to navigate the legal minefield created by SOPA, so many people will just not bother with their website start-ups
- Reduce Job Growth-fewer sites being created means fewer jobs for Americans
- Stifle Free Speech-censorship will end our First Amendment rights
- Restrict Truth-citizens simply trying to speak the truth about the government or political figures may be reported as engaging in unlawful activities
- Deny Justice-without due process, anyone can kill a site by claiming is is "rogue"
- Give the Obama administration more power over American citizens-this is one more nail in the coffin of our freedoms under the Obama dictatorship
SOPA will NOT stop piracy...but it will stop freedom in its tracks.
The Hill reports,
What began as an attempt to restrain foreign piracy on the Internet has morphed into a domestic "kill switch" on First Amendment freedom in the fastest-growing corner of the marketplace of ideas.
Proposed federal legislation purporting to protect online intellectual property would also impose sweeping new government mandates on internet service providers - a positively Orwellian power grab that would permit the U.S. Justice Department to shut down any internet site it doesn't like (and cut off its sources of income) on nothing more than a whim. Our First and Fourth Amendments are under assault. Government and law enforcement will have control over your everyday online activities. This sounds like something out of George Orwell's 1984 novel-but it is happening, right now, in the United States of America.
We cannot let that happen. We cannot allow SOPA to pass and then live with the consequences of a police-state on the Internet.
Send Gadsden Flag postcards to Congress today
Support: Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA) and Sen. Ron Wyden (D-OR) have released a draft proposal of an alternative to SOPA, called the "Online Protection and Enforcement of Digital Trade Act" (OPEN)
Imagine if you are posting on a site the government deems "offensive" or "pirated." They don't have to wait to prove their case in a court of law, they can simply order them to go dark, immediately.
Everything from large, reputable retail sites to the smallest of political blogs can be made to "disappear" if someone accuses them of using copyrighted content. SOPA will give the government the power to do what it wants with the internet!
If ONE video, ONE picture, or ONE product on a legitimate website is deemed "pirated" by the copyright owner, the ENTIRE website can be shut down. That kind of oppression will cripple the economy further by punishing American businesses and start-ups at a time when we need creative expansion the most.
And, coming up in an election year, imagine the control Barack Obama's administration will want to administer over the internet, so he can help his re-election! Imagine your favorite blog disappearing because content was deemed "inappropriate" or "pirated" ... by our government...meaning, Barack Obama!
If SOPA and Protect IP pass, it will be a SERIOUS threat to online innovation and to legitimate online communications tools.
Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA) and Sen. Ron Wyden (D-OR) have released a draft proposal of an alternative to SOPA, called the "Online Protection and Enforcement of Digital Trade Act" (OPEN), which gives the U.S. International Trade Commission (USITC) the duty to handle copyright holder complaints on foreign websites. The USITC is already in place and it already polices complaints between U.S. and foreign websites.
OPEN is a viable alternative to SOPA that isn't as stifling to freedom and commerce. But, this issue is still very much up in the air and Hollywood is not backing down on its support of SOPA. Hollywood donates to the Obama campaign.
Obama's Hollywood friends have deep pockets and can continue to influence this debate. That is why concerned Americans like you must get involved and let them know you will NOT accept CENSORSHIP in America of any kind!
Send your Postcards and FAXES to Congress right now and tell them you OPPOSE SOPA!
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