{"id":78428,"date":"2012-01-10T18:47:14","date_gmt":"2012-01-10T23:47:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/78428\/death-internet-hand\/"},"modified":"2012-01-10T18:47:14","modified_gmt":"2012-01-10T23:47:14","slug":"death-internet-hand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/78428\/death-internet-hand\/","title":{"rendered":"The Death Of The Internet As We Know It May Be At Hand."},"content":{"rendered":"

I haven’t been around much. \u00a0I’ve been spending a lot of time on Reddit following the fight against SOPA and PIPA. \u00a0These bills, if they pass, could kill the internet as we know it.<\/font><\/p>\n

Yeah, I hear the peanut gallery thinking I’m over-reacting as usual. \u00a0Like when I called the death of Myspace during the “glitch” days, and was “over-reacting” perhaps? \u00a0Like I over-reacted to the NDAA’s provisions for the indefinite detention of American citizens? \u00a0Yeah, I give a shit about stuff like that.<\/font><\/p>\n

This shit is serious, so please bear with me. \u00a0If anyone ever gives a damn about anything I freak out about, please do so now.<\/font><\/p>\n

SOPA and PIPA, if they pass, will enable any site on the internet to be easily censored by corporations and our government. \u00a0These bills are being aggressively sold to the public as anti-piracy bills. \u00a0The reality is they are anti-free speech bills. \u00a0Anyone and everyone can be shut up and shut down under these bills. \u00a0All it takes is someone (anyone) posting a link to copywritten material on a website for it to get shut down completely.<\/font><\/p>\n

You like Friendburst? \u00a0Well, just wait until Facebook has it shut down because someone posts a Youtube video in a blog that contains a copywritten song. \u00a0What a quick and easy way for the heavy-hitters to remove the competition!<\/font><\/p>\n

Our bought congress (and probably president) are going to try to push these through as soon as possible unless we put heavy pressure on them right now. \u00a0These bills have widespread, bipartisan support because our politicians are all bought off by corporations that want to use these bill to powergrab the internet and cheapen it down into some sort of cable television clone where they have total control of all information.<\/font><\/p>\n

The timing of this is perfect considering the ongoing efforts to black out any serious coverage of OWS or information networking within the movement.<\/font><\/p>\n

If you want more info on what’s going on to fight these bills, go here and read up on the links listed there<\/a>. \u00a0So far, r\/SOPA has managed to force several corporations into backing out of their support of these horrible bills. \u00a0They just bitchslapped GoDaddy into a corner over this and have been hitting other corporations and lawmakers with petitions and boycotts.<\/font><\/p>\n

Ground is being made in this fight, but we need more people to help put pressure on Washington and it’s ruling corporations. \u00a0Here’s a list of companies that are pushing in favor of this bill along with their contact info<\/a>.<\/font><\/p>\n

Once again, this is serious. \u00a0Regardless of whatever bigger issues you may feel are out there, we won’t be able to accomplish them if these bills get passed. \u00a0I beg you all to take this seriously.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The time to act is now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1428],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-78428","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78428","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78428"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78428\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}