SOPA & PIPA

[angellr]

Folks,

I will be going "dark" tomorrow in support of defeating SOPA & PIPA legislation. No Internet, no email, only telephone. Here is an excellent writeup as follows:

http://blog.reddit.com/2012/01/technica ... a-and.html

[diethornig]

What's SOPA & PIPA?

[angellr]

What's SOPA & PIPA?

Two *really bad* pieces of legislation the US Government was trying to pass against the Internet. SOPA == Stop Online Piracy Act and PIPA == Protect Intellectual Property Act http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PROTECT_IP_Act