So, unless you haven't been on the internet in months, you've probably heard about how our government is debating whether or not to (basically) severely censor our internet. Many websites have shown protest to this bill, including Wikipedia and Google. THIS PISSES ME OFF! ARRRRRG.
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What does it mean? Well, you can go to Google, where the logo is blacked out, and Google search, lets say.. Lindsay Lohan. A bunch of links pop up, including Wikipedia. You click on it and you see her Wikipedia page and think, well um.. it's working for me and then BAM! BLACK OUT! The only page Wikipedia is letting people access without the sudden BLACK OUT is the Stop Online Piracy Act page. The Protect IP Act is also up for debate. Both of these would censor the web and make it hard for small businesses to flourish-- considering in our day and age, in the words of Heidi Klum, one day you're in and one day your out.
Do you know what the internet has done for our world? In terms of social media activism.. Cairo protested and it spread throughout our Facebooks, Tumblrs and especially our Twitters. The Occupy Wall Street Movement exploded through Facebook, with tons of pages popping up for different cities throughout our country. Those are only two examples. We can talk to people from across the world because of our internet! Come on, that's awesome!
If our government has a chance to censor our internet.. do you think they'd pass up censoring things like Wall Street protestors if they had the chance? I mean, the news stations are owned by huge corporations that are considered to be people and did we see much coverage of OWS on the television? I didn't. Not to sound super paranoid, but it doesn't seem like our political figures really care that much about us in the first place.. so why WOULDN'T they try to control what we can see online?
What do you think? Are you afraid? Do you think we're going to get blacked out for good?
xoxo
CORTNIE
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