Today you might see a lot of sites on strike Wikipedia has gone “black” and shut down for the day.
Wikipedia and other sites are publicly protesting and shutting down today because of two bills before Congress, known as the Protect IP Act (PIPA) in the Senate and the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) in the House.
These bills would censor the Web and impose harmful regulations on American business. Millions of Internet users and entrepreneurs already oppose SOPA and PIPA.
It would give the government the right to shut down and arrest website owners that they feel are in violation of any copy right issues.
And since the internet is one big place of sharing information, this could potentially affect anyone with a website.
Fighting online piracy is important. The most effective way to shut down pirate websites is through targeted legislation that cuts off their funding. There’s no need to make American social networks, blogs and search engines censor the Internet or undermine the existing laws that have enabled the Web to thrive, creating millions of U.S. jobs.
Mamas spot will not be shutting down today, but I have signed a petition to try to stop this and I would ask that you do the same.
Thank you!
