Bravo to wikipedia! Down with Sopa and Pipa!

Bravo to wikipedia and others who on wednesday will blackout their site to protect the proposed Sopa and Pipa bills.  I am so happy someone woke up on this one and stood up for what is right.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:SOPA_initiative

ZDnet Article


Bravo wikipedia!   Thank you for being american and standing up for what is right!
The free and open exchange of all information and ideas over the internet is our next and greatest frontier.  It should only be limited by our imaginations.  As one raised to believe the United States became the greatest country in the world because of it's free and democratic society, we need to set an example for the rest of the world.

The internet, like America when it was young and new, is so much more important than any single interest, belief or monetary concern.  We need to take this as a first step
to creating a bill of rights for the internet.  To protect our freedom of expression and ideas and free exchange of information.  To prevent the government from creating laws which interfere with the global dynamic of the internet.

I'm so tired of the government using the tragedy of 911 as an excuse for the patriot act, and now using online piracy as an excuse to control what internet sites we can see and visit.

Protecting our freedom and privacy on the internet is much more important than any single issue like whether or not hollywood claims they only made $300 million on their last movie rather than $400 million because someone uploaded a free copy of it online, that the people who would watch it free weren't going to buy the movie or couldn't afford it anyways.

Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed.
Martin Luther King, Jr.