Okay, so I’m technically not allowed to post to the front page, so Youko or Buzz is probably going to be annoyed with me, but I think that this is incredibly important. So Youko, Buzz, I’m sorry, and I know very well I’m stepping over the line of what I can actually do. But I think this needs to be done.
Now, as a representative for the SMYN Staff, I usually don’t want to try to push a political agenda on you guys. The hosts are here to deliver the podcast and other awesome services, and the staff is here to make sure the community is as great as can be. It’s not our place to tell you what you should think about controversial issues like ‘How we can fix the US economy’ or ‘Is the president doing a good job’. It’s not our focus, so we tend to stay neutral.
But this is an issue that affects us pretty hard, and no one actually thinks is a good idea: the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA). I don’t need to tell you everything about this bill; chances are you already know. But it’s a very scary thing, because it can destroy a lot of things online that we all love, including our own WTF Pokémon.
Keeping that in mind, this video is probably the most important video you will ever see about SOPA.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WJIuYgIvKsc
SOPA is dangerous, unethical, draconian, and very, very real. This bill is so potentially harmful that the people responsible for it are either malicious or incompetent, and I don’t want either of those kinds of people writing our laws.
There are two things you can do:
1. Spread that video around. It reveals a lot of very important things about SOPA that need to become public.
2. Go to http://fightforthefuture.org/ Through this website, you can contact your local representative and tell them how terrible this bill is. A lot of politicians are in favor of this bill, but a lot of those same politicians are also fairly on the fence. Letting them know how we feel as the people they are representing is the most important thing we can do.
And that’s my sopabox for the day.
(Originally posted by Darkurai)
