Kita tak perlukan SOPA. Norman sorang pun dah cukup :)
On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 5:35 PM, Harisfazillah Jamel <linuxmalay...@gmail.com> wrote: > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: "Fight For The Future" <i...@fightforthefuture.org> > Date: 19 Jan 2012 14:36 > Subject: Unreal > To: <linuxmalay...@gmail.com> > > Today was nuts, right? > > Google launched a petition. Wikipedia voted to shut itself off. Senators' > websites went down just from the sheer surge of voters trying to write > them. NYC and SF geeks had protests that packed city blocks. > > You made history today: nothing like this has ever happened before. Tech > companies and users teamed up. Tens of millions of people who make the > internet what it is joined together to defend their freedoms. The free > network defended itself. Whatever you call it, the bottom line is clear: > from today forward, it will be much harder to mess up the internet. > > The really crazy part? We might even win. > > Approaching Monday's crucial Senate vote there are now 35 Senators publicly > opposing PIPA. Last week there were 5. And it just takes just 41 solid > "no" votes to permanently stall PIPA (and SOPA) in the Senate. What seemed > like miles away a few weeks ago is now within reach. > > But don't trust predictions. The forces behind SOPA & PIPA (mostly movie > companies) can make small changes to these bills until they know they have > the votes to pass. Members of Congress know SOPA & PIPA are unpopular, but > they don't understand why--so they're easily duped by superficial changes. > The Senate returns next week, and the next few days are critical. Here are > two things to think about: > > 1. Plan on calling your Senator every day next week. Pick up the phone each > morning and call your Senators' offices, until they vote "no" on cloture. > If your site participated today, consider running a "Call the Senate" link > all next week. > > 2. Tomorrow, drop in at your Senators' district offices. We don't have a > cool map widget to show you the offices nearest you (we're too exhausted! > any takers?). So do it the old fashioned way: use Google, or the phonebook > to find the address, and just walk in, say you oppose PIPA, and urge the > Senator to vote "no" on cloture. These drop-in visits make our spectacular > online protests more tangible and credible. > > That's it for now. Be proud and stay on it! > > --Holmes, Tiffiniy, and the whole Fight for the Future team. > > ___ > > P.S. Huge credit goes to participants in the 11/16 American Censorship Day > protest: Mozilla, 4chan, BoingBoing, Tumblr, TGWTG, and thousands of > others. That's what got this ball rolling! Reddit, both the community and > the team behind it, you're amazing. And of course, thanks to the > Wikimedians whose patient and inexorable pursuit of the right answer brought > them to take world-changing action. Thanks to David S, David K, Cory D, and > E Stark for bold action at critical times. > > P.P.S. If you haven't already, show this video to as many people as you can. > It works! http://fightforthefuture.org/pipa/ > > > ________________________________ > > This email was sent to: > linuxmalay...@gmail.com > > To unsubscribe, go to: > http://act.fightforthefuture.org/unsubscribe > > -- > To unsubscribe from and detail about this group > http://portal.mosc.my/osdc-my-mailing-list-information > > OSDC.my Discussion Group In Facebook > http://www.facebook.com/groups/osdcmalaysia/ > > Malaysia Open Source Conference 2012 > MOSC2012 http://portal.mosc.my/ -- To unsubscribe from and detail about this group http://portal.mosc.my/osdc-my-mailing-list-information OSDC.my Discussion Group In Facebook http://www.facebook.com/groups/osdcmalaysia/ Malaysia Open Source Conference 2012 MOSC2012 http://portal.mosc.my/
