The SOPA (house) and PIPA (senate) bills have been put on hold.The battle is not over. A lot of lobbying money is promoting these bills. They will return in modified form under a different name. Electronics Frontier Foundation is the lead organization on our side! They lobby and testify on behalf of internet freedom and security. Follow the news at their site, join if you see fit, send $ if you can. Updated 1/20/2012
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I am a newbie at blogging, there is a lot of stuff I do not know how to do yet. If I knew how, this blog would redirect for the day to a protest and information page.
Go HERE to learn more and easily send a letter to your congresspersons.
This is all very important, in an attempt to stop on-line piracy, big money is being spent to effectively stifle all transfer of copyrighted material by making the site owner responsible. This could be the end of SL and many other sites, including Wikipedia.
First they came for the Socialists, and I did not speak out —
Because I was not a Socialist.
Then they came for the Trade Unionists, and I did not speak out —
Because I was not a Trade Unionist.
Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out —
Because I was not a Jew.
Then they came for me — and there was no one left to speak for me.
Rambling with Shug 