SOPA Protest Day: the largest digital protest ever (infographic)

Full size image here.

(Source: ubergizmo.com)

“In most reports following the MegaUpload shutdown, the site is exclusively portrayed as a piracy haven. However, hundreds of thousands, perhaps millions of people used the site to share research data, work documents, personal video collections.As of today, these people are still unsure whether they will ever get their personal belongings back.”

[TorrentFreak]

thats-so-meme:

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thedailywhat:

And The Other Shoe Drops of the Day: Shortly after news broke that the PIPA test vote scheduled for Tuesday was being postponed indefinitely, Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA) took to Twitter to announce that voting on the bill’s congressional sibling SOPA was also being postponed.

[@darrellissa.]

italianfishy:

kejjywithcats:

thecubeabides:

thesummerofmark:

hey look some results

lol

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Fuck yes.

I posted something about this on facebook today… nobody commented or liked it, so I’m unsure how many actually saw it. Maybe everyone unsubscribed from me because of all my SOPA/PIPA postings…

Anyways, I don’t want to be a kill joy, everybody is excited about this, but this isn’t over yet. The bills are voted on by the different houses, not Congress as a whole, so this picture is a little misleading.

The Senate still has more supporters than definite opponents. But if you include the people leaning against it, PIPA is losing. But, there’s still 20 undeclared Senators, so it could go either way.

Here are the current supporters/opponents of the bills for each house:

This chart isn’t up to date, PIPA has less supporters now.

PIPA (In above image): 37 Supporters, 22 Opponents

PIPA (More up to date): 33 Supporters (32 cosponsors, 1 leaning),

         42 Opponents (25 published, 17 leaning)

SOPA: 26 Supporters, 100 Opponents

This interactive chart can be viewed at here if you are interested.

Also, check out the SOPA/PIPA Timeline. It’s a list of statements and actions by the members of Congress. Looking through it really shows the effect the protests had. Almost an entire third of the page is from things said Wednesday.

Also, here is a more detailed and up to date chart on the positions by those in the Senate.

(Source: tastefullyoffensive)

I just tried calling my senator, Herbert Kohl (D, WI), one of the co-sponsors of PIPA. I was going to leave a message but couldn’t because his mailbox is full.

Senator Ron Johnson’s (R, WI) mailbox was full too.

When I called representative Gwen Moore (D, WI-4), I expected her mailbox to be full too. I was caught off guard when it turned out it wasn’t. It was the most awkward phone message I’ve ever left.

(after stating my name and location) “… Yeah. She needs to vote against SOPA. It’s pretty bad for jobs and stuff. ok. umm. bye”

I really hate talking on the phone

thedailywhat:

This Is Important, You Should Watch It of the Day: Salman Khan offers the most succinct and straightforward rundown of how the language in SOPA’s current iteration leaves wide open the possibility that, despite its ostensible intention to block foreign sites trafficking in pirated content, completely legal websites operating inside the United States could easily be labeled “enablers” of “U.S. property theft” and subjected to crippling sanctions that would effectively shut them down.

(Worried? Do something.)

[khanacademy.]