Hitler reacts to SOPA.
SOPA and PIPA are a very big deal folks. Nobody needs some nobody with a brand new pop culture blog like me to tell you that when sites like Google and Wikipedia are blacking out their sites today and providing all of the information you need.
But I felt the need to put my two cents in.
I have fun running this blog. I have fun running my personal Tumblr. I enjoy reading websites like AICN and /Film and the like.
If SOPA or PIPA passes, all of this goes away. Tumblr is done for. Wikipedia is done for.
This isn’t about online piracy. The people behind these bills want you to think that it is, but it’s truly about one thing: the bottom line. I absolutely agree that online piracy is an issue and needs to be regulated. But this isn’t the way to do it. The language in these bills makes is so that anything that could be considered copyright infringement would allow a website to be shut down. Without due process.
That’s unconstitutional. It’s un-American. And it’s wrong.
It means that this very post, because it contains footage from a film called Downfall, would cause my website to be shut down, and would cause Tumblr to be shut down.
The fact is that many of these corporations refused to get on the online/streaming bandwagon when they should have an now it’s coming back to bite them. The way to combat piracy is not to kill freedom of speech, it’s to create a better alternative to piracy. Make your content more available online. Give people a reason to want to purchase items directly from you.
These bills are an outrage and it’s a shame that there’s not more media coverage of it. This is primarily because most mainstream media outlets are run by corporations who support these bills. Even folks like Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert — who you’d usually expect to get a week’s worth of material out of something like this — have remained silent. Comedy Central, after all, is owned by Viacom, a SOPA supporter.
Blacking out your website, changing your Facebook profile picture, re-blogging this video — it’s all worthless unless you take action and contact your local representative. The sites below will help you do this. Let’s fight this thing, let’s fight for our freedoms and our future. Let’s make sure that Orwell’s 1984 remains a work of fiction.
Take action:
Source: jbishop
