SOPA And PIPA Protest

| January 18, 2012 | Site News | 3 Comments

Two bills, Stop Online Piracy Act (Sopa) and Protect Intellectual Property Act (Pipa) being debated by Congress right now. While I am firmly against internet piracy, I believe these bills, if passed, could fatally damage the free and open internet.

An Ocean with no ship news!

In reaction to these over broad and badly written bills, Wikipedia and  user-generated news site Reddit and the blog Boing Boing are also taking part in the “blackout”.

For more detail, see this pro and con article on CBC:

SOPA, PIPA: What you need to know By Stephanie Condon

Opponents of SOPA and PIPA include WordPress, Google, Yahoo!, YouTube, Facebook, Twitter, AOL, LinkedIn, eBay, Mozilla Corporation, Roblox, Reddit,the Wikimedia Foundation, and human rights organizations such as Reporters Without Borders,the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), and Human Rights Watch and others.

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MARTIN COX - Founder and publisher of MaritimeMatters, inspired by maritime culture and technology growing up in the port of Southampton. He works as a photographer in Los Angeles, and his works has been exhibited in LA, San Francisco, New York, London and Iceland. Martin is the co-writer of the book “Hollywood to Honolulu; the story of the Los Angeles Steamship Company” published by the Steam Ship Historical Society of America. The Los Angeles Maritime Museum has commissioned artworks and collected his photographs.

3 Comments
  1. Phil

    I heartily agree and am very glad to see MM support this protest against these objectionable and authoritarian measures. We no longer need fear the state as a threat to our liberties but rather the massive private interests that dominate our lives.

  2. Kenneth Eden

    And to think that I thought PIPA was Prince WIlliams sisiter – in law! LOL

    (just kidding)

  3. Alan Mackenzie

    What are these bills supposed to do?

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