Angry geeks fire back at SOPA supporters
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Both Congress and the Internet have been abuzz lately with the Stop Only Piracy Act, or SOPA, a bill which will allow the US government to erect a firewall across the Web and largely limit what websites are accessible to American people. While the debates on Capitol Hill might be bit boring and are largely sponsored by the millions of lobbying dollars sent in by SOPA supporters, the Internet is offering a no-holds-barred battleground to make sure that the bill doesn’t make it to legislation..... MORE
Source: RT.com
URL: http://rt.com/usa/news/sopa-internet-online-web-547/
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bumigay ang go daddy ah. consumer activism ay isang malakas na pwersa. kaya lang eh may oras pa kaya? malalaman kung hanggan saan ang pasensya ng mga mamamamayng 99% ng kalbong agila.
"Other domain name registrars don’t agree though and are offering discounted rates for people that switch providers, encouraging them to make the move by using coupon codes such as “NODADDY,” “BYEBYEGD” and “NOSOPA.”
"As the heat was added to the fire, GoDaddy cracked on Friday, finally revoking support for SOPA."In changing its position, Go Daddy remains steadfast in its promise to support security and stability of the Internet," the registrar writes on Friday.The company's general counsel, Christine Jones, writes that "Go Daddy has always fought to preserve the intellectual property rights of third parties, and will continue to do so in the future," and the company has removed blog postings on their site of SOPA legislation that it had originally been in favor of."
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