Successes in the fight against SOPA
Matt Cutts of Google highlighted the recent successes in the fight against SOPA and PROTECT IP bills, which are now being considered in the US Parliament and envisage large-scale measures against piracy on the Internet: blocking access to foreign pirated sites, disabling their financial services, responsible sites for user-posted content , imprisonment of up to five years for users who post pirated content, and so on.
New legislation promotes Hollywood with RIAA and MPAA, supports the BSA * alliance (among its members are Microsoft, Apple, Adobe, Intel, and 24 more technology companies). Google, Twitter, Mozilla, Facebook, Yahoo, other representatives of the Internet industry, and hundreds of thousands of Internet users are actively opposing.
Matt Cutts says that thanks to the organized public campaign against SOPA and PROTECT IP, there have been a lot of positive events over the past week that could tip the scales in our direction. First, some representatives of both the Republican and the Democratic Party in the House of Representatives and in the Senate opposed the new bills, calling them "too radical." Thus, a “progressive” lobby is being formed in both parties, with the help of which it is possible to block these legislative initiatives in both houses of parliament.
Secondly, the European Parliament overwhelmingly voted in favor of a resolution criticizing the SOPA . The resolution emphasizes the "need to protect the integrity of the global network and freedom of communication."
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Further, the specialists of Sandia National Laboratories (a division of the US Department of Energy) expressed the opinion that the new legislation will adversely affect the security and functionality of the Internet globally, including reducing cybersecurity of the United States.
The response from Internet users, writes Matt Cutts, was simply overwhelming and unanimous. The site Tumblr launched a page with a call to call / write to its congressman and express his opinion, as a result 87,000 calls were made. SOPA and PROTECT IP search queries are among the most popular searches on Google. Last Wednesday, four of the top ten most popular queries on Google were on this topic, and the query [Internet censorship] remained in the top three most popular queries in the following days.
Matt Cutts emphasizes that in the struggle of the IT industry against SOPA, the forces are clearly unequal, because the entertainment industry spends a lot more to lobby for its interests in Washington.
In addition, politicians themselves are poorly versed in technology issues: there are only six engineers in the US parliament.
However, due to the unified position and public protest, there is still a chance to stop these bills.
* UPD. The BSA Alliance refused to support SOPA, offering to send it for revision “to clarify the wording.”
New legislation promotes Hollywood with RIAA and MPAA, supports the BSA * alliance (among its members are Microsoft, Apple, Adobe, Intel, and 24 more technology companies). Google, Twitter, Mozilla, Facebook, Yahoo, other representatives of the Internet industry, and hundreds of thousands of Internet users are actively opposing.
Matt Cutts says that thanks to the organized public campaign against SOPA and PROTECT IP, there have been a lot of positive events over the past week that could tip the scales in our direction. First, some representatives of both the Republican and the Democratic Party in the House of Representatives and in the Senate opposed the new bills, calling them "too radical." Thus, a “progressive” lobby is being formed in both parties, with the help of which it is possible to block these legislative initiatives in both houses of parliament.
Secondly, the European Parliament overwhelmingly voted in favor of a resolution criticizing the SOPA . The resolution emphasizes the "need to protect the integrity of the global network and freedom of communication."
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Further, the specialists of Sandia National Laboratories (a division of the US Department of Energy) expressed the opinion that the new legislation will adversely affect the security and functionality of the Internet globally, including reducing cybersecurity of the United States.
The response from Internet users, writes Matt Cutts, was simply overwhelming and unanimous. The site Tumblr launched a page with a call to call / write to its congressman and express his opinion, as a result 87,000 calls were made. SOPA and PROTECT IP search queries are among the most popular searches on Google. Last Wednesday, four of the top ten most popular queries on Google were on this topic, and the query [Internet censorship] remained in the top three most popular queries in the following days.
Matt Cutts emphasizes that in the struggle of the IT industry against SOPA, the forces are clearly unequal, because the entertainment industry spends a lot more to lobby for its interests in Washington.
In addition, politicians themselves are poorly versed in technology issues: there are only six engineers in the US parliament.
However, due to the unified position and public protest, there is still a chance to stop these bills.
* UPD. The BSA Alliance refused to support SOPA, offering to send it for revision “to clarify the wording.”
Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/284632/
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