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Fight the Blacklist: A Toolkit for Anti-SOPA Activism
Congress is debating dangerous legislation that would give the Department of Justice unprecedented power to “blacklist” websites without a trial and give Hollywood copyright holders a new way to shut down a website’s financial services for alleged copyright infringement. It’s nothing short of a bill to create a U.S. censorship regime, and it’s moving fast.
Fight the Blacklist: A Toolkit for Anti-SOPA Activism
Congress is debating dangerous legislation that would give the Department of Justice unprecedented power to “blacklist” websites without a trial and give Hollywood copyright holders a new way to shut down a website’s financial services for alleged copyright infringement. It’s nothing short of a bill to create a U.S. censorship regime, and it’s moving fast.We need your help to stop this legislation before it can undermine Internet security and censor the web. Ready to join EFF, Demand Progress, Fight for the Future, Free Software Foundation, Creative Commons, CDT, the Participatory Politics Foundation, and Public Knowledge in the fight? Here are 12 things you can do right now to help us stop the blacklist bills.
Got more suggestions for ways to fight SOPA and Protect-IP? Tell us about it through identi.ca, Twitter, Facebook, in an email to rainey@eff.org, or add them in a comment to this thread on Reddit.
- Call your Senators and Representative and tell them to oppose Protect-IP and SOPA, respectively. Click here for some suggested talking points. Then tell your friends about the call on social media sites.
- Contact Congress through EFF’s action center. Customize your letter to explain who you are and why you are worried about this bill. If you’re outside the United States, try this petition from Fight for the Future instead.
- If you work for a tech company, approach the leadership at your company and explain to them your concerns. Urge them to join you in speaking out. These companies (PDF) already took a stand.
- Write a blog post about the blacklist bills. Whether it’s a candid explanation of why you oppose the legislation, a discussion of the effect on human rights, or a call to filmmakers to protest the blacklist, there are plenty of things to say about this scary legislation. Help us get the word out by writing articles on your own blog, your school blog, or on blogs that take guest contributors.
- Are you an artist? Showcase the dangers of censorship through art and music, and use your art as a way of reaching people who might otherwise not know about this issue. You can make stickers, posters or patches, create a YouTube video, or hold an open-mic night around censorship.
- Do you administer a website? Then put a banner on your site protesting censorship or link to EFF’s action center.
- Coordinate a teach-in or debate at your local college or community center. Invite local experts in copyright and free speech to come discuss the issue.
- If you’re in high school, talk to your civics and media studies teachers about a class discussion on the implications of this bill. Point them to our free Teaching Copyright materials.
- If you’re in college, speak out through like-minded organizations working for digital freedom, such as Students for Free Culture or Electronic Frontier on Campus. If there isn’t a chapter at your school, start one. Then use that platform to coordinate with other students to speak out against this bill.
- If you’re in college, set up a meeting with your college newspaper editorial board and explain the bill to them and why they should speak out about it. Work with them to write articles on the topics. Check out these examples from the University of Buffalo, University of Massachusetts, and University of Minnesota. See more examples at the Center for Democracy and Technology's Chorus of Opposition page.
- Write a letter to the editor of your local paper. Remember, these are often really short. Find out the requirements for your local paper and follow them carefully.
- Become a member of EFF. We’re leading the fight to defend civil liberties online, so that future generations will enjoy an Internet free of censorship. By standing together, we can make it happen.
For more information:
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2011/12/figh...
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If this dangerous "Blacklist legislation" is passed by Congress, Agent Provocateurs to censor free speech will only need publish text at targeted Websites that constitute (copyright infringement). Websites that have large numbers of posted comments and information could not possibly investigate every posting to avoid being shutdown by the Justice Dept.
The question is not if the congress betrays the truthers, and the truthers media but it is going to, in response to the collapse of the global monopoly capitalist system they represent. They feel immediately that they cannot procede with truth, but must decieve and obfuscate, not to mention cover-up for the onepercent while exploiting and suppressing the 99%. Thats their media.
Put another way the solid majority of worker-peasant-farmer-student alliance needs to be the new media, and take over the main means of production and distribution so the people can end aggressive wars the one percent plan comming as they dismantle the manufacturing. You cannot work with shut means of production.
The need is to bring about single payer healthcare, free education by taking over the public treasury to the 99%, and providing the re-tooling necessary to put in place wind, tidal, and solar power, to end the burn-out of oxygen by coal, gas, oil, and atomic energy poisoning waste. Full employment of the working classes.
That is to invest in socially necessary projects to full employment. Short of that the depression-recession will continue with the failed policy of pollution and war dictated by the one percent.
Viva socialist liberation. End pollution wars by shutting down the war machine, the actual cause of depression and bankruptcy, and never again pollution wars for more and more pollution. The media must be the voice of the 99% now held voicelessly, and not the one percent of war makers, and authors of 'their austerity and budget shortfall'.
Arise ye prisoners of starvation. Arise ye wretched of the Earth. The earth belongs to us the workers. You have a world to win yet!!
Put another way the solid majority of worker-peasant-farmer-student alliance needs to be the new media, and take over the main means of production and distribution so the people can end aggressive wars the one percent plan comming as they dismantle the manufacturing. You cannot work with shut means of production.
The need is to bring about single payer healthcare, free education by taking over the public treasury to the 99%, and providing the re-tooling necessary to put in place wind, tidal, and solar power, to end the burn-out of oxygen by coal, gas, oil, and atomic energy poisoning waste. Full employment of the working classes.
That is to invest in socially necessary projects to full employment. Short of that the depression-recession will continue with the failed policy of pollution and war dictated by the one percent.
Viva socialist liberation. End pollution wars by shutting down the war machine, the actual cause of depression and bankruptcy, and never again pollution wars for more and more pollution. The media must be the voice of the 99% now held voicelessly, and not the one percent of war makers, and authors of 'their austerity and budget shortfall'.
Arise ye prisoners of starvation. Arise ye wretched of the Earth. The earth belongs to us the workers. You have a world to win yet!!
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