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The internet we know and love is at risk. Help save it.
Right now, the U.S. Congress is considering legislation that could profoundly affect the future of the internet. It's called the Stop Online Piracy Act.
The fact is that this legislation as written won't stop piracy. But it would pose a serious threat to social media and user generated content sites (like YouTube) across the internet. It could also undermine some of the core technical systems underlying the internet, creating new cybersecurity risks.
As a non-profit committed to keeping the web open and accessible to all, Mozilla wants to ensure that this legislation does not jeopardize the foundational structure of the Internet.
So we've done three things so far:
1) We wrote a joint letter with Facebook, Google, Twitter, eBay, Yahoo! and other technology companies publicly opposing this legislation -- and placed ads in various influential newspapers across the country.
2) We joined other organizations in a day of action on November 16th -- when hearings were being held in the U.S. House -- to draw attention to the issue and get people to contact their representatives.
3) Along with other organizations working to stop this legislation, we got thousands of people to call their senators in opposition to the Protect IP Act -- the companion legislation to SOPA in the US Senate.
But these are only the first steps toward ensuring that the proposed legislation does not pass as currently written.
If you'd like to get involved, please sign up using the form on the right. We'll be in touch with ways to help in this campaign along with our other efforts to defend and improve the Web.
If you are not in the U.S., please pass this page along to anyone you know in the States -- and we'd encourage you to sign up anyway, to stay informed about what we're up to.
To give you an idea of the threat to the internet, Microsoft was at first on board for SOPA, now they are against it. Microsoft probably has two of the most pirated programs out there (windows & office) yet they are against this legislation that only puts lip service to being anti piracy. What the real threat of SOPA is to freedom of speech. Have a view disenting to the governments? All you have to be is accused of being a pirate and the plug on your site is pulled. The appeals process is very difficult and if your site is your livelihood you could go under while you're fighting baseless accusations. Your accuser doesn't have to prove that you're engaged in piracy, you have to prove that you're not to get your site back.
The internet we know and love is at risk. Help save it.
Right now, the U.S. Congress is considering legislation that could profoundly affect the future of the internet. It's called the Stop Online Piracy Act.
The fact is that this legislation as written won't stop piracy. But it would pose a serious threat to social media and user generated content sites (like YouTube) across the internet. It could also undermine some of the core technical systems underlying the internet, creating new cybersecurity risks.
As a non-profit committed to keeping the web open and accessible to all, Mozilla wants to ensure that this legislation does not jeopardize the foundational structure of the Internet.
So we've done three things so far:
1) We wrote a joint letter with Facebook, Google, Twitter, eBay, Yahoo! and other technology companies publicly opposing this legislation -- and placed ads in various influential newspapers across the country.
2) We joined other organizations in a day of action on November 16th -- when hearings were being held in the U.S. House -- to draw attention to the issue and get people to contact their representatives.
3) Along with other organizations working to stop this legislation, we got thousands of people to call their senators in opposition to the Protect IP Act -- the companion legislation to SOPA in the US Senate.
But these are only the first steps toward ensuring that the proposed legislation does not pass as currently written.
If you'd like to get involved, please sign up using the form on the right. We'll be in touch with ways to help in this campaign along with our other efforts to defend and improve the Web.
If you are not in the U.S., please pass this page along to anyone you know in the States -- and we'd encourage you to sign up anyway, to stay informed about what we're up to.
To give you an idea of the threat to the internet, Microsoft was at first on board for SOPA, now they are against it. Microsoft probably has two of the most pirated programs out there (windows & office) yet they are against this legislation that only puts lip service to being anti piracy. What the real threat of SOPA is to freedom of speech. Have a view disenting to the governments? All you have to be is accused of being a pirate and the plug on your site is pulled. The appeals process is very difficult and if your site is your livelihood you could go under while you're fighting baseless accusations. Your accuser doesn't have to prove that you're engaged in piracy, you have to prove that you're not to get your site back.
