The clock is winding down in the United States as the they ready to vote on SOPA. Are you a US citizen? Then it is incumbent upon you to contact your representative in Congress to vote no on January 24, 2012 to stop the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA).
From NY Times:
“When ideas are blocked, information deleted, conversations stifled and people constrained in their choices, the Internet is diminished for all of us.. There isn’t an economic Internet and a social Internet and a political Internet. There’s just the Internet.†– Hillary Rodham Clinton
This is a very real problem folks. It’s time to make a difference.
Have you done your part? Let us know.
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I have notified my local government to a state level. Wrote them all and either got a “Yes, we completely agree,” or a “We think it should be looked into more before anyone votes on it.” Of course, living in California where alot of the bigger technology company resides, there’s alot of corporate interest in keeping the tech fields happy.