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TAKE ACTION: Ask your representative to oppose SOPA
If you value freedom of speech on the internet, you should oppose the Stop Online Piracy Act. That poorly drafted bill would allow copyright owners to take down entire sites for very little infringing content -- without enough notice to allow site owners (or owners of lawful content) to act to avoid outages.
In other words, one upload of a pirate TV show or a lip-sync home video to YouTube could allow NBC or Katy Perry to contact YouTube's ISP and get the entire site taken down, despite the fact that most of the content is perfectly lawful. That’s not good for the free flow of speech online.
One critic of SOPA recently said the bill “isn't even throwing the baby out with the bathwater. This is bludgeoning the baby repeatedly with a sledgehammer and then throwing out the whole bathroom.”
