Outdated Penang Uncle

Showing posts with label SOPA. Show all posts
Showing posts with label SOPA. Show all posts

Wednesday, February 1, 2012

The largest Protest In History

If you have notice, more than hundred thousands of website teamed up to protest the SOPA and PIPA. That is the largest protest in human history, including tweets, emails, complaint phone call. Congratulation Internet and Internet users, we won, for now. Hollywood and some crappy US Senators would come out something new crappy law in future, have Internet ready for that?

infographic


Like this if you are FB user and you think this post is useful. The button is at top right of content of this post.
+1 this post if you are Google+ users and you think this post is useful.
Hope you will enjoy this post, subscribe to my RSS or mailing list or follow me on blogger or twitter. :)
source: frugaldad.com

Sunday, January 22, 2012

Why stop SOPA?

Happy Lunar New Year! Today is the first day of Water Dragon Lunar New Year.
To know more about Lunar New Year or Chinese New Year, check out these wiki:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lunar_New_Year
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_New_Year

However if SOPA being implemented, we might not getting website service like youtube and wiki. It will be an ice age of Internet.

Matthew Inman at The Oatmeal explains it, in a simple way [warning! not safe for kids]:
SOPA / PIPA in animated GIF form

If SOPA being implemented, meaning you will not able to see any of this kind of video available at youtube and I will not able to write any waste time post anymore, sigh.

Here are example of video that will be banned if SOPA being implemented:
Empire Strike Back songs by dogs:


Farting Squirrel commercial:


Reddit user made this video:



Btw, Megaupload has been shutdown by FBI, and SOPA was not even being use for the shutdown.


Like this if you are FB user and you think this post is useful. The button is at top right of content of this post.
+1 this post if you are Google+ users and you think this post is useful.
Hope you will enjoy this post, subscribe to my RSS or mailing list or follow me on blogger or twitter. :)
source: video from youtube, animated gif from theoatmeal.com