CONGRESS, CAN YOU HEAR US?

CONGRESS,
CAN YOU HEAR US?
“Two bills before Congress, known as the Protect IP Act (PIPA) in the Senate and
the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) in the House, are meant to stop online piracy but
would censor the Web and impose harmful regulations on American businesses.
Experts agree that there are better ways to shut down pirate websites than asking
US companies to censor the Web. Join the groundswell of experts, organizations
and people from all parts of America united in their opposition to SOPA and PIPA.
Tell Congress not to censor the Web and not to cripple our innovation economy.
Sources: Infojustice.org, Protect Innovation, Engine Advocacy, Center for Democracy and Technology, White House We the People Petition,
Congresswoman Zoe Lofgren, Wikipedia, Stop American Censorship, Avaaz
Advocacy and public
interest organizations,
including ACLU,
MoveOn and Tea
Party Patriots,
voiced their
opposition.
Leading venture
capitalists issued
a letter expressing
concern that PIPA
‘would stifle
investment in
Internet services,
throttle innovation,
and hurt American
competitiveness.’
Law professors sent a
letter expressing ‘serious
constitutional, innovation,
and foreign policy concerns.’
Entrepreneurs sent a letter
expressing concern that
PIPA and SOPA would ‘hurt
economic growth and chill
innovation.’
American Public called Congress
to voice their opposition through
AmericanCensorship.org.
American public voices opposition by adding
3 million signatures to petitions.
Internet and technology
companies sent an
open letter opposing
the bills and the risks
posed to innovation
and job creation.
Internet security
experts issued a
whitepaper raising
serious concerns
about the technical
approach of PIPA.
Vint Cerf, one of the
founding fathers
of the Internet,
opposed SOPA in
an open letter to
Congress.
Marc Andreessen
Mitchell Baker
Sergey Brin
Jack Dorsey
Caterina Fake
David Filo
Reid Hoffman
Arianna Huffington
Chad Hurley
Brewster Kahle
Elon Musk
Craig Newmark
Pierre Omidyar
Biz Stone
Jimmy Wales
Evan Williams
Jerry Yang
Steve Crocker
David Dagon
Dan Kaminsky
Danny McPherson
Paul Vixie
support
the
innovative
Over 113,000 people have
petitioned the White House
to oppose SOPA and PIPA.
White House issued a
commitment to ‘not support
legislation that reduces
freedom of expression,
increases cybersecurity
risk, or undermines the
dynamic, innovative.
global Internet.’”

Source: Portable Document Format (PDF) from Google