Dumbledore's Army discussion
note: This topic has been closed to new comments.
Closed and ArchivedTopics
>
SOPA and the Internet
This reminds me of PETA. They're an organization that is "all for animals' rights" and stuff, except they are completely stupid. They wanted to make a mechanical groundhog for Groundhog's Day and set the real one free into the wild. That thing wouldn't last a second in the real world!
Well, I want the Internet. They will ban YouTube & deviantART
Yeah a Facebook page for Harry Potter posted about it and said their page could be shut down and that Tumblr could be shut down any day now. Luckily Goodreads isn't popular enough, and it'll probably last through that. I LOVE THE INTERNET. IT CAN'T DIE D= and if it does...I hate SOPA.
Wait why are they trying to shut down the internet?
They don't want people getting "bad" ideas.
Not the whole Internet, they just say they have the right to censor what they want or something. I dunno, I just heard about it. And Wikipedia shut down for a day. And google is doing something in protest too. I'm not sure of the details though.
This reminds me of those utopia books
Mod
WHAT HAPPENED TO FREEDOM OF SPEECH?!? And I think it's already done the damage...
YEAH I KNOW. theyre trying to censor everything...not cool. IF WE DONT HAVE SAFE SEARCH ON, WE DONT CARE WHAT WE SEE. SO DROP IT SOPA. YOU DONT NEED TO CONTROL THE INTERNET AND (PARTIALLY) OUR LIVES. YOU CAN'T JUST GO AROUND SHUTTING THINGS DOWN AND CENSORING WHAT YOU WANT. ITS RUINING IT. AND YEAH, WE USE WIKIPEDIA. LOTS OF PEOPLE PROBABLY NEEDED INFORMATION FROM THERE DURING ITS DAY-LONG SHUTDOWN. WHICH WAS PROTESTING AGAINST YOU. AND LOTS OF PEOPLE FIND THEIR JOBS THROUGH THE INTERNET, OR THATS HOW THEY KNOW IF THEY CAN MOVE SOMEWHERE FOR A JOB. YOU'RE JUST MAKING MORE PEOPLE UNEMPLOYED! AND UNHAPPY WITH YOU!
wow ive gotten bad at ranting. i just kinda...like talking in all caps...to an organisation...that will probably never see this... so just ignore me. cause i need to practice my ranting. i shouldnt have stopped. rawr.
wow ive gotten bad at ranting. i just kinda...like talking in all caps...to an organisation...that will probably never see this... so just ignore me. cause i need to practice my ranting. i shouldnt have stopped. rawr.
Well, if SOPA does shut down the Internet to a limited supply, we can hope no online reports or anything online about homework. BUT I HATE SOPA
D= Comcast is on the shut-down list too. NOOOO. thats my email servicey thingy. and how i watch the newest Doctor Who episodes. then i would literally be down to Goodreads. cause free email services like Yahoo and Google would be shut down first. then facebook would go. then Tumblr. I hate SOPA. what are they trying to prove? that the internet doesn't hide enough? That someone with a cause can do what the please in the american government? but its in China too...UGH. go away SOPA. please. i need comcast. and facebook.
*overposting on this. i need to rant every once in a while*
*overposting on this. i need to rant every once in a while*
YES ME TOO. theres a list of 75,000+ sites of who's shut down. so i just did ctrl+F and searched some.
List of sites shutting down in protest
Guess what? Goodreads is on there.
List of sites shutting down in protest
Guess what? Goodreads is on there.
what about YouTube? deviantART? FB? Netflix? NO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Youtube is on there. so is Deviantart. so is facebook. luckily, Netflix is not. STILL ONE REASON TO USE THE INTERNET! YES!
If the internet shuts down, i dont know how m gonna live. no new music you can search! no new music you can get for free! no more expressing your art to the world! no more posting your thoughts! no more making stories!
yeah i know. Netflix is the only site i use that i havent found on there.
i dont know...i think everyone hates them. except the creators. if this passes...O.o i dont wanna think about it.
i dont know...i think everyone hates them. except the creators. if this passes...O.o i dont wanna think about it.
these are just the sites that are going on strike. SOPA probably wont shut down all of them. But Wikipedia already went on strike for a day. they were the first i heard of. others could go on strike anytime from SOPA. maybe for longer.
Mod
List of sites shutting down in protest
Guess what? Goodreads is on there."
NONONONONONONONONONONONO!!!!!!!!!
I KNOW. THEY BETTER NOT SHUT DOWN ANY TIME SOON. even if they do it shouldnt last too long. the sites that have were only out for a day.
My school passed around an anti-SOPA and PIPA petition two days ago, right after the Wiki blackout and censor-bar Google Doodle. We got 639 signatures out of 794 students and staff :)
Lookit what I found.......http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/ne...
This site looks well written and reliable enough.... I think.... Plus, I found some other sites saying this too, so..... :D
Haha that's awesome! I wish our school would let us do that...
YES! So goodbye SOPA?
YES! So goodbye SOPA?
Yeah... our school is boring...I hope it means goodbye
Our generations logic, you can mess with our social interactions, steal our money, make our health care and educational systems so ridiculously lame, and we will do nothing, but don't you dare mess with the internet.
haha exactly. if our internet gets corrupted/filtered...thousands of people will try to stop it. i hate SOPA. my city's school system is terrible. i just deal with it and dont pay attention in class.
Mod
Mod
I don't know if any of you have read the book
but it is basically the same thing happening, with Anonymous and everything. My English class is reading it currently, and it's awesome :D It's a really good book :D
That sounds interesting. Yay! Bye bye SOPA!
This topic has been frozen by the moderator. No new comments can be posted.
So why am I making this? Well cause 1. I think they shouldn't be doing this, they don't have the right to kill the Internet. And 2. Because I enjoy ranting and reading other people's rants. So...if this upsets you, RANT AWAY. And if you like it...RANT AWAY. About how I don't like it or something...