{"id":603,"date":"2011-11-28T00:09:44","date_gmt":"2011-11-28T05:09:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.masspirates.org\/blog\/?p=603"},"modified":"2011-11-28T00:45:36","modified_gmt":"2011-11-28T05:45:36","slug":"tell-the-senate-dont-censor-the-internet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/2011\/11\/28\/tell-the-senate-dont-censor-the-internet\/","title":{"rendered":"Tell the Senate: Don&#8217;t censor the Internet!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the next few weeks or maybe even sooner, the Senate may vote to approve the PROTECT IP bill. \u00a0PROTECT IP, like SOPA its even more draconian House counterpart,\u00a0would create a variety of ways for corporations and\u00a0the US government to censor the Internet as demonstrated in this video by\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/fightforthefuture\">Fight for the Future<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/31100268?byline=0&amp;portrait=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"600\" height=\"347\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>We know a\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.techdirt.com\/articles\/20111115\/00240216771\/new-study-shows-majority-americans-against-sopa-believe-extreme-copyright-enforcement-is-unreasonable.shtml\">majority of Americans oppose<\/a> the measures that PROTECT IP would impose<\/strong> to prop up the failed business models of the large media corporations. \u00a0<strong>We can stop this bill!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Please contact both of your Senators either at the numbers listed below or via their web forms and urge them to oppose PROTECT IP:<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Scott Brown<\/span><br \/>\n(202) 224-4543<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/scottbrown.senate.gov\/public\/index.cfm\/emailscottbrown\">http:\/\/scottbrown.senate.gov\/public\/index.cfm\/emailscottbrown<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">John Kerry<\/span><br \/>\n(202) 224-2742<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/kerry.senate.gov\/contact\/\">http:\/\/kerry.senate.gov\/contact\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Oregon Senator Wyden will also stage a fillibuster of the bill in part by reading the names of opponents of censoring the Internet. &nbsp;Please visit <a href=\"http:\/\/stopcensorship.org\/\">stopcensorship.org<\/a> to add your name.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Please do both actions today.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Please note that we moved Monday&#8217;s IRC meeting to Thursday at 9:30pm.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the next few weeks or maybe even sooner, the Senate may vote to approve the PROTECT IP bill. \u00a0PROTECT IP, like SOPA&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-603","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-copyright"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1W8mg-9J","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/603","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=603"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/603\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":629,"href":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/603\/revisions\/629"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}