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Google to Protest SOPA on Homepage

 
DrunkenEwok
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Google to Protest SOPA on Homepage
Google confirmed in a statement that it will join Wikipedia, Reddit and other influential tech firms in staging protests of varying kinds against the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and Protect IP Act (PIPA), which are backed by big entertainment and media interests.

"Like many businesses, entrepreneurs and web users, we oppose these bills because there are smart, targeted ways to shut down foreign rogue websites without asking American companies to censor the Internet," a Google spokeswoman said. "So tomorrow we will be joining many other tech companies to highlight this issue on our US home page."

[link to news.cnet.com]

What do you guys think about this? I think it's a good move on their part.

Last Edited by DrunkenEwok on 01/17/2012 01:22 PM
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Re: Google to Protest SOPA on Homepage
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Something fishy about that........

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They're just protecting their interests. If there was a "buy out plan" on that law, you can bet they wouldn't have said a peep.
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if its true i have a bit more respect for google.
this is censorship plain and simple.
or am i missing something?
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Something fishy about that........


 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 1353166


That's fucking creepy. lol At least he isn't running the company anymore. Page and Brin are the good guys.

Last Edited by DrunkenEwok on 01/17/2012 01:35 PM
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if its true i have a bit more respect for google.
this is censorship plain and simple.
or am i missing something?
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 8769489


You hit the nail on the head!
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01/17/2012 01:37 PM
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great! we wont have SOPA in India! :D yay piracy :D
:yammnytrans:
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great! we wont have SOPA in India! :D yay piracy :D
 Quoting: YamAniaC


That's true, but you guys are getting that new government run Identification System. Now THAT has to suck. lol
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01/17/2012 01:50 PM
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I got this addon for Firefox: [link to lifehacker.com]

It will bypass their stupid DNS block...

Screw SOPA!

Last Edited by Kinect on 01/17/2012 02:08 PM
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Re: Google to Protest SOPA on Homepage
Craigslist does the same.
Thread: Craiglist fights back...
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Re: Google to Protest SOPA on Homepage
great! we wont have SOPA in India! :D yay piracy :D
 Quoting: YamAniaC


That's true, but you guys are getting that new government run Identification System. Now THAT has to suck. lol
 Quoting: DrunkenEwok


true. but its not mandatory. lol back
:yammnytrans:
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