U.S. Government Seeks Yet Another Power Grab
January 18, 2012
CALL TO ACTION
The video below discusses the Senate version of the House’s Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA). In the Senate the bill is called the PROTECT IP Act (PIPA). SOPA has gotten more attention than PIPA because it was moving faster in the legislative process. But PIPA is just as dangerous, and now it is moving faster.
PIPA would give the government new powers to block Americans’ access websites that corporations don’t like. The bill lets corporations and the US government censor entire websites and cut sites off from advertising, payments and donations.
This legislation will stifle free speech and innovation, and even threaten popular web services like Twitter, YouTube, and Facebook.
The bill is scheduled for a test vote in the Senate on Jan. 24th: We need to act now to let our lawmakers know just how terrible it is. Will you fill out the form above to ask your lawmakers to oppose the legislation and support a filibuster?
This is a “sweet deal” for the Entertainment Industry. The industry will no longer have to deal with the complications of laws already on the books to protect their intellectual property. Instead, these bills give more power to the government. As we all know, history has proven that government cannot be trusted with power. This is why our Founding Fathers, in their great wisdom, constructed a Constitution to limit government power and to protect citizens from the rights that only God can grant (see the Declaration of Independence, which progressives also ignore).
Here is a cute song about this issue:
Articles on issue:
- House takes Senate’s bad Internet censorship bill, tries making it worse
- Protect The Internet
- SOPA: Hollywood Finally Gets A Chance to Break the Internet
- SOPA on OpenCongress
- PIPA on OpenCongress
To help in understanding the bills before Congress and why they are so dangerous, click here.
Contact your Congressman and Senators to express your views on this critical issue:
It is YOUR Internet