Although the alleged need for the legislation to be voted on January 24, is to stop piracy, what it’s really aimed at doing is shutting down YouTube.
Don’t believe me? Think on this:
Under the new legislation: One allegation of copyright infringement is all it will take to block an entire website. They will do so using the same technology used in Syria and the Great Firewall of China in order to ensure that only approved content appears in search engines and is accessible.
That will be the end of YouTube, which has become an integral part of Internet culture.
It will also be the end of any website where memes can be found as they are often based on copyrighted images.
Without YouTube and memes, there will be nothing left on the Interwebs except for endless flamewars and trolling, like there used to be before we had YouTube and memes.
The Internet is going to go back to sucking again.
Why? Because the Music Industry and the Movie Industry are trying to prevent people from making money through the piracy of music and movies. By censoring the Internet for people who are just looking for some lulz.
And the pirate websites responsible for this anti-piracy legislation, will continue to operate as before. They will just continually change their addresses every time they get blocked.
I do not support any attempts to censor the global Internet, and there have been many over the years, always originating from people who don’t care anything about the Internet, or even understand the technology.
In order to protest censorship, I’m making many of my old posts private temporarily, just to show what the Village Thinker would look like if it was censored. I’m not going to go back to the beginning, just a couple of months.
The posts will still be there. I will see them. You just won’t be able to see them. Just like you won’t be able to see your favorite websites, like YouTube, Facebook, Twitter, Tumbler, ICanHasCheezburger, SomethingAwful, Ebaum’s World, and many others.
Stop SOPA/PIPA and help keep the Interwebs free.
