Posts tagged SOPA
In Consent of the Networked, Global Voices co-founder and internet policy specialist Rebecca MacKinnon argues that it’s time for us to demand that our rights and freedoms are respected and protected before they’re sold, legislated, programmed, and engineered away.
This is the banner we’ve posted on our websites today to protest SOPA and PIPA, two US internet copyright bills that would seriously restrict free speech on the internet worldwide.
Internet censorship affects everyone. Our co-founder Rebecca MacKinnon explains why the protest against the U.S. copyright bills that threaten the internet is not only an issue for geeks or Americans, but for everyone who values free speech.
See Netzpolitik’s gallery of blackout images from those protesting U.S. internet copyright bills SOPA and PIPA today. Global Voices is participating in the blackout too.
Here’s why:
U.S. Bills Could Threaten the Global Internet
Global Online Community Protests U.S. Anti-Piracy Bills
Don’t let big corporations or governments break the internet.
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Mostar in Autumn, by Evan Wakelin.
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Ki Nikham by Ari Goldwag. This is an a capella song, which is the only music religious Jews can listen to during days of mourning in the Jewish...
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The number of languages spoken worldwide vs. the languages of the internet.
