Against SOPA and PIPA

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12:06 pm - Thu, Jan 19, 2012: 4 notes

Against SOPA and PIPA

Dear Congresswoman Jackson Lee, Senators Cornyn and Hutchison

I own the Internet. All taxpayers who paid for the development of the Internet by the US government own the internet. I will not allow the internet to be censored by the SOPA and PIPA bills. I will not allow what I own outright to be censored. The petty copyright concerns of Hollywood over their pirated movies is in no way commensurate with the vast necessity of having a free and open and uncensored Internet. The revolutions of 2011 that occurred all over the Middle East happened because the Internet could not be shut down or censored. If the Iranian people can ever overthrow the ayatollahs, it will be the Internet that gives them a voice and the means to organize and rebel. Freedom of speech, freedom of expression, are too precious and too American as values to be subject to censorship. There are already plenty of legal avenues and enforceable laws for the holders of copyright to sue and have their day in court.

Sincerely,

Scott Bodenheimer