Today’s “Google Doodle,” as they call their imaginative logo artwork when they note various things, is the above black box. If you click on it you go to https://www.google.com/landing/takeaction and you can sign a petition to Stop SOPA.
If you like the internet, you are against SOPA (Stop Online Piracy Act), even if you don’t know what it is.
The short version is that it’s ill-designed legislation to address a real problem – piracy; that will have far-reaching effects for people like you and me who are just doing our ordinary daily business on the internet and don’t happen to be copying movies for distribution around the world.
So, take a minute and sign this petition – it’s easy – your name, email and zip code. The zip code is so they can send it to your representative.
If you hear about websites “going dark,” they are protesting this. No one is saying it’s bad to stop piracy, this is just a very bad way to do it. This would have little effect on piracy, but cause tremendous difficulty for the average person who just wants to chat with their friends on Facebook, make a basic website for their business or some other normal thing online.
Hop on over and let your voice be heard: https://www.google.com/landing/takeaction
If you want to do even more, check out http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page. You can enter your zip code and get links to your particular reps. Do both. Make your voice heard.
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