{"id":5437,"date":"2012-01-18T00:08:00","date_gmt":"2012-01-18T00:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2012\/01\/18\/sopa-strike-largest-online-protest-in-history\/"},"modified":"2012-01-18T00:08:00","modified_gmt":"2012-01-18T00:08:00","slug":"sopa-strike-largest-online-protest-in-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2012\/01\/18\/sopa-strike-largest-online-protest-in-history\/","title":{"rendered":"SOPA STRIKE &#8211; Largest online protest in history"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href='http:\/\/sopastrike.com\/'>SOPA STRIKE &#8211; Largest online protest in history<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"link_description\">\n<p>Tomorrow many Internet sites (including <em><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Wikipedia:SOPA_initiative\/Action\" target=\"_blank\">Wikipedia<\/a><\/em>, <em><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.reddit.com\/2012\/01\/stopped-they-must-be-on-this-all.html\" target=\"_blank\">Reddit<\/a><\/em>, <em><a href=\"http:\/\/tucowsinc.com\/news\/2012\/01\/why-we-dont-like-sopa\/\" target=\"_blank\">TUCOWS<\/a><\/em>, <em><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.archive.org\/2012\/01\/17\/12-hours-dark-internet-archive-vs-censorship\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Internet Archive<\/a><\/em>,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.techdirt.com\/blog\/?tag=sopa\" target=\"_blank\">and<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/americancensorship.org\/supporters.html\" target=\"_blank\">more<\/a>) will go dark in protest of the upcoming <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Stop_Online_Piracy_Act\" target=\"_blank\">SOPA<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/PROTECT_IP_Act\" target=\"_blank\">PIPA<\/a> bills. \u00a0These bills are based on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cdt.org\/report\/growing-chorus-opposition-stop-online-piracy-act\" target=\"_blank\">dangerously uninformed<\/a> ideas of how The Internet works and have disastrous ramifications well beyond the intentions of the legislators. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Looking deeper, it is clear that the legislators of these bills have been <del>bought and paid for<\/del>\u00a0unduly influenced by media corporations desperate to eke profits from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.techdirt.com\/articles\/20120116\/10031617417\/tim-oreilly-explains-where-federal-govt-has-gone-wrong-sopapipa-solving-wrong-problem.shtml\" target=\"_blank\">anachronistic business models<\/a>, and it&rsquo;s high time that someone calls them out. \u00a0Educate yourself and <a href=\"http:\/\/americancensorship.org\/modal\/call-form-moz.html\" target=\"_blank\">let your legislator know how you feel<\/a>!<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>On Jan 24th, Congress will vote to pass internet censorship in the Senate, even though the vast majority of Americans are opposed. We need to kill the bill &#8211; PIPA in the Senate and SOPA in the House &#8211; to protect our rights to free speech, privacy, and prosperity. We need internet companies to follow <em>Reddit<\/em>&rsquo;s lead and stand up for the web, as we internet users are doing every day.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SOPA STRIKE &#8211; Largest online protest in history Tomorrow many Internet sites (including Wikipedia, Reddit, TUCOWS, The Internet Archive,\u00a0and more) will go dark in protest of the upcoming SOPA and PIPA bills. \u00a0These bills are based on dangerously uninformed ideas of how The Internet works and have disastrous ramifications well beyond the intentions of the &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2012\/01\/18\/sopa-strike-largest-online-protest-in-history\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;SOPA STRIKE &#8211; Largest online protest in history&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5437","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","hentry","category-uncategorized","post_format-post-format-link"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5437","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5437"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5437\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}