The following is an excerpt of an email I just received:
Hi everyone!
A big hurrah to you!!!!! We’ve won for now -- SOPA and PIPA were dropped by Congress today -- the votes we’ve been scrambling to mobilize against have been cancelled.
The largest online protest in history has fundamentally changed the game. You were heard.
On January 18th, 13 million of us took the time to tell Congress to protect free speech rights on the internet. Hundreds of millions, maybe a billion, people all around the world saw what we did on Wednesday. See the amazing numbers here and tell everyone what you did.
This was unprecedented. Your activism may have changed the way people fight for the public interest and basic rights forever.
The MPAA (the lobby for big movie studios which created these terrible bills) was shocked and seemingly humbled. “‘This was a whole new different game all of a sudden,’ MPAA Chairman and former Senator Chris Dodd told the New York Times. ‘[PIPA and SOPA were] considered by many to be a slam dunk.’”
“'This is altogether a new effect,' Mr. Dodd said, comparing the online movement to the Arab Spring. He could not remember seeing 'an effort that was moving with this degree of support change this dramatically' in the last four decades, he added."
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The Dark Side does not give up...eternal vigilance is required
> The Dark Side does not give up...eternal vigilance is required
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> SOPA Goes Back To the Drawing Board, PIPA Postponed
Very true
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SOPA/PIPA has far range implications beyond music and movie copyrights. The drug companies and others are behind the law 100%. Purportedly it could be used to shut down legitimate on line pharmacies in the same facist way.
Make no doubt about it, they will be back after they have bought more Congressional Reps.
