We Won! SOPA/PIPA shot down!

[JojocIaw]

Hey guys I go this in the mail today!

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."

Tweet with us, shout on the internet with us, let's celebrate: Round of applause to the 13 million people who stood up - #PIPA and #SOPA are tabled 4 now. #13millionapplause

We're indebted to everyone who helped in the beginning of this movement -- you, and all the sites that went out on a limb to protest in November -- Boing Boing and Mozilla Foundation (and thank you Tumblr, 4chan)! And the grassroots groups -- Public Knowledge, Electronic Frontier Foundation, Demand Progress, CDT, and many more.

#SOPA and #PIPA will likely return in some form. But when they do, we'll be ready.

P.S. China's internet censorship system reminds us why the fight for democratic principles is so important:

In the New Yorker: "Fittingly, perhaps, the discussion has unfolded on Weibo, the Twitter-like micro-blogging site that has a team of censors on staff to trim posts with sensitive political content. That is the arrangement that opponents of the bill have suggested would be required of American sites if they are compelled to police their users’ content for copyright violations. On Weibo, joking about SOPA’s similarities to Chinese censorship was sensitive enough that some posts on the subject were almost certainly deleted (though it can be hard to know).
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After Chinese Web users got over the strangeness of hearing Americans debate the merits of screening the Web for objectionable content, they marvelled at the American response. Commentator Liu Qingyan wrote:

‘We should learn something from the way these American Internet companies protested against SOPA and PIPA. A free and democratic society depends on every one of us caring about politics and fighting for our rights. We will not achieve it by avoiding talk about politics.’"

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[The Eye]

anonymous hacked the FBI and other website.

 

[Dupa]

Spread the excitement! :izuna:

 

[Black-Star]

read this 2 times this day well never mind Im happy that we won

 

[captain pop]

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I had a feeling the bill wouldn't pass. Too many people against it and only for company interests.

 

[Netsui]

:izuna: SOPA doesn't stand a chance against the internet. If I was someone in Congress I would have held SOPA in front of all of them, and then I would have burned it :noc: ! SOPA = :flaw:

 

[Lysander]

yay lol

 

[Dr Strangelove]

F*ck yeah!!
We need to spread the news.

 

[UchihaBrat]

Wonderful! Thx for sharing!

 

[Illyasviel]

yay :izuna:

 

[Dupa]

F*ck yeah!!
We need to spread the news.

And the excitement!

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:izuna:

 

[~Naruto&Itachi~]

anonymous hacked the FBI and other website.

Anon hacked FBI and other sites for a different reason....if this reason was stated in the main post than my bad but anon hacked those sites because megaupload was brought down the people are being charaged for copyright and etc...

 

[Hyperion]

Not bad.
Good, now back to downloading.

 

[BusinessManTeno]

Last time i heard on the news
we didnt win yet
it was suspended. meaning postponed. till febuary
thats what was said on the news and radio

 

[Mejkl3]

Hey guys I go this in the mail today!

Thx for sharing im so glad I heard that

btw u got an AWESOME avatar!

 

[JojocIaw]

We all knew once the big guys like Google, Wikipedia, and Facebook got involved that this thing wouldn't fly.

The only scary thing, if I know how politicians think, is that they will reintroduce this but under a different name and some fixes. But it might end up hurting us because they could make it appealing but just end up f***ing us in the end.

 

[Hipster Madara]

We all knew once the big guys like Google, Wikipedia, and Facebook got involved that this thing wouldn't fly.

The only scary thing, if I know how politicians think, is that they will reintroduce this but under a different name and some fixes. But it might end up hurting us because they could make it appealing but just end up f***ing us in the end.

i hope not :T_T:
leave teh internet alone

 

[JojocIaw]

And the excitement!

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:izuna:

That is a spam thread. ~___~

 

[zombiejesus]

And the excitement!

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:izuna:

yoiu are easily exited good fro you lol

 

[Pr0bl3m]

in other words they failed at trying to buy the internet?