{"id":1243,"date":"2011-11-30T09:18:29","date_gmt":"2011-11-30T14:18:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2011\/11\/you-like-blogs-facebook-twitter-etc-oppose-the-protect-ip-act.html"},"modified":"2011-11-30T09:18:29","modified_gmt":"2011-11-30T14:18:29","slug":"you-like-blogs-facebook-twitter-etc-oppose-the-protect-ip-act","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2011\/11\/you-like-blogs-facebook-twitter-etc-oppose-the-protect-ip-act.html","title":{"rendered":"You like blogs, facebook, twitter, etc.? Oppose the “PROTECT IP” Act"},"content":{"rendered":"If you like facebook, twitter, eBay, blogs, other social media, or even\nGoogle or Yahoo,\nyou won’t like the so-called “PROTECT IP” Act, which is coming up to\na vote in the Senate any day now.\n\n<\/a>\nIt would let big corporate copyright holders impose monitoring,\ntake down websites, and cut off funding, all without need for a court order.\nThere’s still time to oppose it.\n

\nParker Higgins wrote for EFF Monday,\n\nThe PROTECT IP Act Is Very Real and Very Bad \u2014 Call Now to Block It<\/a>\n

\nThe\n\nPROTECT IP Act (PIPA)<\/a>\nis the evil step-sister of the\n\nStop Online Piracy Act (SOPA)<\/a>,\nthe much-criticized Internet blacklist bill introduced\nin the House last month. They\u2019ve got a lot in common \u2014 both bills\nwould allow the government and private rightsholders to\n\ncensor the Internet for Americans,<\/a>\nand both bills have faced\n\nstrong opposition<\/a>\nfrom regular citizens, business leaders, and public interest groups.\n

\nIn one way, though, PIPA is much worse: while SOPA is still in the\nHouse committee stage and has been the target of extraordinary public\nopposition, PIPA is already out of committee and poised for consideration\nof the full Senate. That means PIPA is a few dangerous steps further\nalong in the process of becoming law. And with only a few weeks to go\nin this legislative session, the Senate may try to rush the bill through\nbefore the public has a chance to respond.\n<\/blockquote>\nHere’s one way to contact your elected representatives.<\/a>\nOr call them on the\ntelephone.<\/a>\nSee also\n\nLAKE’s contact information for national elected officials.<\/a>\n

\n-jsq\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"If you like facebook, twitter, eBay, blogs, other social media, or even Google or Yahoo, you won’t like the so-called “PROTECT IP” Act, which is coming up to a vote in the Senate any day now. It would let big corporate copyright holders impose monitoring, take down websites, and cut off funding, all without need […]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[97,2,3,121,3197],"tags":[3202,3347,8704,3346,577,507,3199,1878,3344,1437,3198,3345],"class_list":["post-1243","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-activism","category-government","category-transparency","category-webtech","category-weblogs","tag-censorship","tag-copyright","tag-economy","tag-freedom","tag-house","tag-internet","tag-pipa","tag-privacy","tag-protect-ip-act","tag-senate","tag-sopa","tag-stop-online-piracy-act"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p585fK-k3","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1243","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1243"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1243\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}