As I explain in this video from Sunday’s Philosophy in Action Webcast, the proposed “SOPA” and “PIPA” bills currently under consideration would threaten every web site with shut-down, if that web site contains such much as a single link to copyrighted material anywhere, even if not posted by the owner. These bills, if passed, would break the fundamental architecture of the internet, and enable Chinese-style censorship of the internet.
Tomorrow, a slew of large and small web sites will be blacking themselves out in protest. You can join that by blacking out your own blog — or, more precisely, redirecting it to a protest page.
SopaStrike offers code that you can add somewhere between the <head> and </head> tags of your blog:
<script>var a=new Date,b=a.getHours()+a.getTimezoneOffset()/60;if(18==a.getDate()&&0==a.getMonth()&&2012==a.getFullYear()&&13<=b&&24>=b)window.location=”http://sopastrike.com/strike”;</script>
However, that code didn’t work for me. Blogger kept giving me errors. So tomorrow, I’m going to manually add the following code between my <head> and </head> tags:
<meta http-equiv=”refresh” content=”2;url=http://sopastrike.com/strike”> </meta>
That will redirect the page to http://sopastrike.com/strike after two seconds. I’ll add it in the morning, then remove it in the evening.
Please consider doing the same — or at least blogging about the issue. Also, don’t forget to e-mail and call your own representatives! You can find their contact information using this form.
