SOPA Blackout Protest 1/18/12

First topic message reminder :

Hello, I am here to inform WDA as a whole and re-discuss SOPA. SOPA is an anti-piracy act that will ultimately make your life here on the internet a living hell. See more details in Kimo's thread here:

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and here:

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Here is their [alleged] goals:

• Stop Piracy
  
• Stop trolling
  
• Stop Cyber Bullying for children on a global scale
  
• Censor anything threatening or distasteful
  
• Anti-Terrorism
  

I have done my research and their real goals are to not only control the Internet, but to control the Internet's economy so that they can make profit off of it all. Even logic points to this: if Congress classified Pizza as a vegetable to save the frozen food industry, then they will control YOUR Internet. Yes, it is a service provided by the United States government, but it is a right that we all have. It is the Freedom of Speech and the Pursuit of Happiness that constitutes our right to our current state of the Internet.

What will happen if SOPA bill passes? This:

• No more Torrent sites
  
• Anything that involves any aspect of copyright infringement will be stripped down (youtube, DuelingNetwork, PirateBay, fan-dedicated forums, etc.)
  
• Very strict social networking
  
• FBI Searches (they still do that right now, but the amount of times they are allowed to search you will increase.)
  

What can we do to stop this? Protest, protest, protest. There will be a global scale "black out" (mass inactivity) to show disfavor of this bill. What do protests do? They voice the public's opinions and has shown in the past that they are effective. What do you do to join the black out? Do not use your internet at all on 1/18/12 (this upcoming wednesday.) This is from your loving admin, Digi and your friend Kimo.

Please just voice your choice whether or not you are going to protest or not. It is highly recommended and appreciated if you do. Thank you.

*If you are going to spread the word out to the rest of the YGO community or any other forum you love, feel free to use my post and these campaign posters. (BTW sorry for the 2nd poster MoC, I kinda felt like doing it myself because I'm feeling a little picky about it atm.)*

Spoiler:

Thank you god! Even though it may come back, we have bought us more time of free use of internet. YAY! :D

WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOT! F*CK YEAH! PARTAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY! SCREW YOU ALL I'M GOING HOME!

I knew blackmailing them would work.....

people, we are still protesting today. However, we aren't blacking out. So instead just do any other means of protesting like signing petitions (such as this: SOPA Strike Petition), decorating your online profiles all around the net wherever you may be (that hasn't blacked out today) with userbars, txt that says "Down with SOPA+PIPA!, etc"

SOPA will be reintroduced next month. Ready-up!

Also, make plans to either Blackout again and discuss with me about this so that we can educate each other on this matter. Topic of discussion: SOPA, PIPA, how to protest, etc. Refer to Al's wall-o-txt and some other large opinions posted earlier in this topic and Kimo's topic.

Info on the PIPA:SOPA -->http://www.digitaltrends.com/computing/sopa-vs-pipa-anti-piracy-bills-uproar-explained/

http://vimeo.com/31100268