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Wednesday, January 18, 2012

let the net be Free

Many websites have joined the important protest taking place today, against the Anti-Piracy legislative initiatives which threaten to mutilate the Internet. 

PIPA and SOPA are dangerous to the freedom of information and freedom of speech of all of us. 

I share the belief that internet users all over the world should unite in a clear message to governments everywhere: the public's interest in  - 
  • free flow of information
  •  freedom of speech 
  • freedom of creativity 
must be given  due significance and not be considered secondary when weighed against large corporations' commercial interests and Intellectual property rights.

The world is changing, and intellectual property changes too, as the internet empowers individuals and enables them to reach over and touch many others, to the spite of some corporations who discover we can actually make do without them. 

Here are some of the corporations who make a stand for a free Internet: 

Wikipedia (full English-wiki blackout)

Craigslist (full U.S blackout)


Reddit ( will join the blackout soon, for 12 hours )

Google 
(which could have made a bigger effort, or at least use a larger font) 
Want to know more about the struggle to keep the Internet free ?

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