Er, Ah, I’m not cool and tech savvy like it seems all you guys are.
I would really like to know what the heck SOPA and PIPPA are and why I should care?
It would be nice to those of us not in the “know” to know what in the heck we are talking about here.
Not a criticism, just an observation.
Thank you. I like to think I’m pretty aware of what’s going on and I have no idea what SOPA and PIPPA are.....and I was beginning to think I was the only one.
Hank
1. give the US government the right to force ISPs to block access to FreeRepublic.com.
2. Gives the US government and private corporations the right to sue US based search engines from listing FreeRepublic.com in search results.
3. The US government can force payment services (such as Visa, Mastercard, Paypal, etc.) to block all financial donations transaction from freepers to FreeRepublic LLC, and shutdown accounts and confiscate all monies in FreeRepublic's accounts.
4. Any and every media copyright holder will be able to sue FreeRepublic.com for infringement and FreeRepublic.com LLC will be given no notice of the lawsuit, five days after the lawsuit is filed, FreeRepublic.com will be put on the blacklist and all US based ISPs will have to block access.
5. For FreeRepublic LLC to regain control of the FreeRepublic.com domain name, Jim Robinson, John Rbinson will have to sue in court under the pretense of guilty until proven innocent.
6. Repeated lawsuits could see Jim and John and other LLC boardmembers threatened with legal fines and jail time, depending on how the committee conference bill is written up in conference.
7. Every website becomes responsible for every single piece of user content posted on the website. A Single infringing link or copyrighted piece of media posted on FreeRepublic.com will be enough to permanently shutdown FreeRepublic.com
8. PIPA and SOPA break the foundational technology of the Internet, it's technical and I'll just post a link to an open letter from dozens of the founders of the Internet.https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2011/12/internet-inventors-warn-against-sopa-and-pipa
I would really like to know what the heck SOPA and PIPPA are and why I should care?
Yeah, me too. I think it is some sort of elitism speak.