{"id":15507,"date":"2012-01-18T03:35:55","date_gmt":"2012-01-18T11:35:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uberscifigeek.com\/?p=15507"},"modified":"2012-01-19T03:38:27","modified_gmt":"2012-01-19T11:38:27","slug":"unreal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uberscifigeek.com\/?p=15507","title":{"rendered":"Unreal"},"content":{"rendered":"

From\u00a0fightforthefuture.org<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Today was nuts, right?<\/p>\n

Google launched a petition.\u00a0 Wikipedia voted<\/a> to shut itself off.\u00a0 Senators’ websites went down<\/a> just from the sheer surge of voters trying to write them.\u00a0\u00a0 NYC and SF geeks had protests that packed city blocks.<\/a><\/p>\n

You made history today: nothing like this has ever happened before.<\/strong>\u00a0 Tech companies and users teamed up.\u00a0 Tens of millions of people who make the internet what it is joined together to defend their freedoms.\u00a0 The free network defended itself.\u00a0 Whatever you call it, the bottom line is clear: from today forward, it will be much<\/em> harder to mess up the internet.<\/p>\n

The really crazy part?\u00a0 We might even win.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Approaching Monday’s crucial Senate vote there are now 35 Senators<\/span> publicly opposing PIPA.\u00a0 Last week there were 5<\/span>.\u00a0\u00a0 And it just takes just 41 solid “no” votes to permanently stall PIPA (and SOPA) in the Senate.\u00a0 What seemed like miles away a few weeks ago is now within reach.<\/p>\n

But don’t trust predictions.\u00a0 The forces behind SOPA & PIPA (mostly movie companies) can make small changes to these bills until they know they have the votes to pass.\u00a0 Members of Congress know SOPA & PIPA are unpopular, but they don’t understand why–so they’re easily duped by superficial changes.\u00a0 The Senate returns next week, and the next few days are critical.<\/strong>\u00a0 Here are two things to think about:<\/p>\n

1. Plan on calling your Senator every day next week.<\/span>\u00a0 Pick up the phone each morning and call your Senators’ offices, until they vote “no” on cloture.\u00a0 If your site participated today, consider running a “Call the Senate” link all next week.<\/p>\n

2. Tomorrow, drop in at your Senators’ district offices.<\/span>\u00a0 We don’t have a cool map widget to show you the offices nearest you (we’re too exhausted! any takers?).\u00a0 So do it the old fashioned way: use Google, or the phonebook to find the address, and just walk in, say you oppose PIPA, and urge the Senator to vote “no” on cloture.\u00a0 These drop-in visits make our spectacular online protests more tangible and credible.<\/p>\n

That’s it for now. Be proud and stay on it!<\/p>\n

–Holmes, Tiffiniy, and the whole Fight for the Future team.<\/p>\n

___<\/p>\n

P.S. Huge credit goes to participants in the 11\/16 American Censorship Day protest: Mozilla, 4chan, BoingBoing, Tumblr, TGWTG, and thousands of others.\u00a0 That’s what got this ball rolling!\u00a0 Reddit, both the community and the team behind it, you’re amazing.\u00a0 And of course, thanks to the Wikimedians whose patient and inexorable pursuit of the right answer brought them to take world-changing action. Thanks to David S, David K, Cory D, and E Stark for bold action at critical times.<\/p>\n

P.P.S. If you haven’t already, show this video to as many people as you can. It works! http:\/\/fightforthefuture.org\/pipa\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

From\u00a0fightforthefuture.org: Today was nuts, right? Google launched a petition.\u00a0 Wikipedia voted to shut itself off.\u00a0 Senators’ websites went down just from the sheer surge of voters trying to write them.\u00a0\u00a0 NYC and SF geeks had protests that packed city blocks. You made history today: nothing like this has ever happened before.\u00a0 Tech companies and users … Continue reading “Unreal”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,348,11,33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15507","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-announcements","category-events","category-news","category-science-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uberscifigeek.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15507","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uberscifigeek.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uberscifigeek.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uberscifigeek.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uberscifigeek.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15507"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/uberscifigeek.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15507\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uberscifigeek.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uberscifigeek.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uberscifigeek.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}