The Climate Crocks video series thrives because the internet is a vast repository of information, sounds, sights, and ideas. Freely sharing and creatively mixing those ideas is a major piece of what makes the internet exciting, engaging, and useful.
It’s made it possible for those with no funds, no backers, and no influence, to find their voice and their audience, and speak their truth. Predictably, there are those who want to shut it down.
Tell Congress not to censor the internet NOW! – fightforthefuture.org/pipa
PROTECT-IP is a bill that has been introduced in the Senate and the House and is moving quickly through Congress. It gives the government and corporations the ability to censor the net, in the name of protecting “creativity”. The law would let the government or corporations censor entire sites– they just have to convince a judge that the site is “dedicated to copyright infringement.”
The government has already wrongly shut down sites without any recourse to the site owner. Under this bill, sharing a video with anything copyrighted in it, or what sites like Youtube and Twitter do, would be considered illegal behavior according to this bill.
According to the Congressional Budget Office, this bill would cost us $47 million tax dollars a year — that’s for a fix that won’t work, disrupts the internet, stifles innovation, shuts out diverse voices, and censors the internet. This bill is bad for creativity and does not protect your rights.
Looks similar to an organization we have up here, http://openmedia.ca/
We’ve made some strides, but the battle is far from over.
Mahalo Peter for providing the link to the website that made it easy to contact all members of my congressional delegation. I have shared the website of Facebook.
With sincere aloha,
Kokuaguy in Honolulu
Thanks for posting this, Peter.