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On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 7:13 PM, Azrul MADISA <azrulha...@gmail.com> wrote: > What's in it for Malaysians? > > > On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 5:41 PM, Hasanuddin Abu Bakar <bizkut...@gmail.com > > wrote: > >> 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/ >> > > -- > 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/ > -- Just a random living organic computer code generator -- 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/
