SOPA & PIPA

You may already know about this or you may not but as a photographer or even just a casual user of the internet this will affect you (At least in the USA). SOPA & PIPA are two pieces of legislation that threaten to censor and even ban certian aspects of our internet usage. Under SOPA authorities have the right to remove or block access to sites they feel violate the legislation. Say someone uploads a photo to PictureSocial and someone else somewhere claims that photo violates their copyright, under SOPA/PIPA the site could be taken down without warning and without even letting the owners know before hand. I highly recommend everyone read up on this proposed legislation. Many sites such as Google and Wikipedia are speaking out against the outrageous terms of SOPA.

More about SOPA & PIPA

Washington Post
Google

Wikipedia

Through the Lens

Complete List of Sites going dark for SOPA Protests

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Permalink Reply by nathan mccreery on January 19, 2012 at 7:48pm

Interesting in tonite's GOP debate

http://www.cnn.com/video/?hpt=hp_c2#/video/politics/2012/01/19/deba...

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Permalink Reply by James Elliott on January 19, 2012 at 8:04pm

Thanks for sharing the video. I like what all the candidates were saying but you always have to take what they say with a grain of salt. I think they know how the majority of Americans feel on the subject, so naturally they'd align their response with public opinion.

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Permalink Reply by nathan mccreery on January 20, 2012 at 7:13pm

Not to be cynical but 65% of the American public didn't want Obamacare. The only ones who wanted it were the bureaucrats in Washington. The rest of us want them to leave us alone. I'm not a separatist or a conspiratorialist, I'm just skeptical that Congress gives a royal rip what anyone outside of D.C. thinks or wants.