HOT OFF THE PRESS from WordPress:
Have you been paying attention to all the hubbub online about the proposed U.S. legislation (SOPA/PIPA) that threatens internet freedom? The gist is this: there’s a bill in the U.S. Senate that if passed would put publishing freedom severely at risk, and could shut down entire sites at the whim of media companies. Fight for the Future created this nifty video to sum it up better than I can.
http://vimeo.com/31100268
“On January 18, 2012, sites all over the internet will be blacking out to protest and try to mobilize more people to speak out against this bill coming up in the Senate next week, S. 968: the Protect IP Act (PIPA) in an attempt to let U.S. lawmakers know how much opposition there is. WordPress.org, Wikipedia, and even WordPress.com VIP I Can Has Cheezburger? will be participating in the blackout to raise awareness and spur you to action.
Here on WordPress.com, we want to participate as well. Freshly Pressed will be blacked out during the strike. Sorry to take away your daily fix of yummy web content, but this bill threatens to do that on a much wider scale. You don’t want that, do you?
More importantly, we are making it possible for WORDPRESS blogs to participate in the protest. There are two options: a “Stop Censorship” ribbon and a full blackout. The blackout portion will be in effect January 18 from 8am to 8pm EST, while the ribbon will be displayed until January 24. Here’s how to join in:
- Go to Settings → Protest SOPA/PIPA in your dashboard.
- Select if you want to join the blackout or show a ribbon.
- If you choose to join the blackout, you can edit the message that will be shown on your site during the blackout.
- Preview what your protest will look like.
- Click “Save Changes” button to activate your protest.
That’s it! Easy-peasy activism right at your paw-tips.
The “Stop Censorship” ribbon will display in the upper corner of your site and links to americancensorship.org. It will display until January 24, 2012 (the Senate vote date).”
I am participating too, in the WordPress self-hosted version! During the non-blackout hours, I have quite a bit to say about SOPA and PIPA!
Go Milo and Alfie Go !
I support you guys !!!
We signed the Department of State petition.
Am emailing you; (or if you get this first, maybe you can email me) It’s probably me … but I can’t find where to grab that “upper righthand corner” stop censorship tag you’re displaying here … want to add it to Zoolatry …
thanks, A
Guess the Stop Censorship banner is a wordpress thing. Very nice post!
We have added our email address to the petition.
I have a jumbo litter box we can put the SOPA in!
Imagine an Internet without Chey! Remember I was named by my breeder after a fantasy series. I could be considered piracy just because of my name under SOPA.
The word is that the bill won’t pass, but I applaud everyone who is participating in keeping the internet free from censorship
Everyone’s doing a great job and I hope the government is *listening* and makes the right decision.
We’ve been posting on FB and there’s so much rallying I think we’ll win!
Thank you for taking up our US problem. If it starts here, who is to say this nasty germ of controlling freedom of speech wont spread to other countries. We is ashamed that there are ignorant people in our government creating laws such as this!
Great post guys – thanks for joining in from overseas!
power to the people. and kitties.
Thank you for posting this. We signed the petition, too!
Excellent post, boys! SOPA and PIPA are bad!! We are protesting today too! ::raising paws high in the air::
Quite right; censorship is ridiculous. Who on earth do these bozos think they are to tell us what we can see and read?
We dropped by to say that Target is much better. Thanks for the purrs!
Me sure loves you guys! Well done.
We wrote our congressman today!
Dear Milo and Alfi!
Rock On! We agree!
Kisses
Nellie