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[Human No More]

You may see ToS has joined in the protest, along with wikipedia, google, reddit, and THOUSANDS of other websites.

If you haven't heard of these two proposed laws yet, you should.

Stop American Censorship — a campaign from Fight for the Future

Watch this video: http://vimeo.com/31100268

This will impose chinese-style internet filtering. They are supported by the movie and film, industries, because they will effectively ban user generated content and information sharing. This is all about control.

The repercussions will not just affect the US either. This sets a precedent for arbitrary, at-will censorship, and enables both security and connectivity problems that will affect internet users across the world.

If these pass, ToS will be essentially banned, along with Facebook, Youtube, Google, Wikipedia, deviantArt and every chan, forum, social network, and blog. The internet will become TV - locked down, centrally controlled by authority, and passive, with no participation, nothing that makes the internet what is is. This seeks to control the internet, to force websites into responsibility for the actions of others, and to suppress dissent and free speech. The dangers of this, both in itself and in the precedent it sets, can not be overstated

If you are in the US, tell your representative to oppose it. Write, phone, email. DO ALL THREE.

Everyone else, there is less we can do, unfortunately, but we can still raise awareness - what the people who CAN fight this directly need right now is allies, is help. We are the ones to give it to them. Make sure there is not a single person in the world who does not understand the consequences of this.

The internet is going to war, but make no mistake, this is a fight for survival, for everything we hold close to us. Show them what we can do. Stories will be told of this day for generations to come, as the day the internet stood up for what it believed in.