From rsk@rockandwater.net  Tue Jan 17 17:15:26 2012
From: rsk@rockandwater.net (Rich Kulawiec)
Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2012 17:15:26 -0500
Subject: [cpr] RockAndWater.net joins SOPA/PIPA protests,
 will blackout site tomorrow
Message-ID: <20120117221526.GA2037@gsp.org>


[ It's been a while since there's been any traffic here on CPR;
you folks still paddling out there? ]

1. The fight against SOPA and PIPA continues.  We need your help.  If you
participate in a mailing list, run a blog, or use any web site that holds
any user-generated content (which is "just about all of them"), YOU need
your help.  Start here:

	http://americancensorship.org/

Further background reading can be found in the links below.


2.  I've joined many of my long-time colleagues -- people that I've known
as part of the 'net community for over 30 years -- in signing this:

	https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2011/12/internet-inventors-warn-against-sopa-and-pipa


3. On January 18 -- TOMORROW -- a number of sites, including Reddit,
Wikipedia, the Internet Archive, BoingBoing, and 7,000 to 10,000
other sites will go dark for the day in protest of this attempt
to destroy the Internet.  Others (including Google) will be displaying
anti-SOPA/PIPA messages on their home page.

We will join them.  Email services will continue, but our home
page will be blacked out -- just as it could be after a single,
anonymous, unfounded accusation should either of these two bills
become law.  Just as yours could be.

We ask everyone reading this to join us -- and to call your
representatives in Congress, expressing your complete opposition
to these bills in *any* form.


4. Further background reading:

	http://boingboing.net/2012/01/14/boing-boing-will-go-dark-on-ja.html
	http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20120116/10031617417/tim-oreilly-explains-where-federal-govt-has-gone-wrong-sopapipa-solving-wrong-problem.shtml
	http://radar.oreilly.com/2011/11/sopa-protectip.html
	http://cameronneylon.net/blog/the-stupidity-of-sopa-in-scholarly-publishing/
	http://blog.easydns.org/2011/12/22/how-sopa-will-destroy-the-internet/
	http://searchengineland.com/dear-congress-its-not-ok-not-to-know-how-search-engines-work-either-105265
	http://www.itworld.com/security/234685/best-idea-2011-give-control-internet-content-group-sued-dead-grandmother

---rsk