Re: [us-marketing] SOPA

On 01/17/2012 11:58 PM, drew wrote:
> Howdy,
>
> Well, someone decided that the English website should go dark today..I
> guess if you are reading this you know why.
>
> I would like encourage you to follow your own feelings on this. IMO it's
> a good time, if you haven't done it before, to send your congressman and
> or senators an email. (My personal experience is that it's much better
> do it yourself, don't use one of the canned services..)
>
> The vote in the congress isn't happening till the 24th, so you have
> time..
>
> Best wishes,
>
> //drew
Nice gesture, except for those who want to, need to, download the new 
version of LO today.  I was thinking about it myself.

I find my region's Congress reps tend to do what they want, unless their 
area needs something.  Otherwise, you have to "scare" them into doing 
the correct/right thing.  The Patriot Act was bad enough with their 
secret warrants where the person/group served will go to jail if a 
"normal" judge asks them if they were served a secret warrant and the 
person/groups tells the truth and says "yes I was served one".  We got 
rid of some of that secret stuff that Bush Jr. "required" as a right of 
the government and a president, but anything adding to the laws to 
lessen our privacy it bad.  Also having the ability to filter out web 
sites or media flow if it is anti-government or something the government 
does not like [Think China and North Korea], is a very bad thing.

We have to lose some of our privacy to exist in a modern world, but we 
still have freedom of speech and freedom to use the Internet to view any 
web site that wants to let you view its contents.  If we lessen those 
two freedoms and allow out Internet use to be legally 
tracked/copied/read without hard-to-get warrants, then we start moving 
to a state controlled Internet, like some of the non-democratic 
countries out there.

Yes, I support a cause to reduce the censorship in our lives.  I support 
the openness of the Internet.  I support privacy of the individual or 
group from government "spying" to see if we are good boys and girls and 
do not talk against their ideas.  Ooops, I guess I may be targeted now 
by the "thought police", if some of the hard-line/paranoid people in the 
government gets their way.




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