Dear friend,
I just emailed Congress to urge them
to oppose the Internet Blacklist Legislation, known as the PROTECT-IP
Act in the Senate and the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) in the House.
This legislation seeks to give the executive branch power to conduct
slash-and-burn campaigns against websites that allegedly host – or even
link to – content that infringes on intellectual property rights. That
would “disappear” whole domain names, fundamentally undermining Internet
security, and/or choke off their financial support. The Internet
Blacklist Legislation puts more sites than ever at risk, effectively
upending the DMCA safe harbors that have been crucial to the growth of
Internet innovation and creativity.
Sadly, these short-sighted and
dangerous bills won’t do much to stop online infringement – but they
will jeopardize our ability to speak and read online with the kind of
freedom we cherish in the offline world. Deep-pocketed Hollywood
lobbyists are aggressively pushing to control and censor the open
Internet, willing to sacrifice free speech and our Internet culture in
hopes of controlling how people view their movies and products.
We need to stop this bill before it
goes any further. Will you contact your representatives in Congress and
urge them to oppose the Internet Blacklist Legislation? Visit:
https://eff.org/r.C8A
Please do your research and really consider how much this would hurt the online community.
