If only Google or Facebook would use their homepage status to get the word out to the majority of the population. A blacked-out Google Doodle or a notification at the top of the Facebook newsfeed would go a very long way.
To explain this to friends & family, tell them to watch this video: <a href="http://vimeo.com/31100268" rel="nofollow">http://vimeo.com/31100268</a> - or just the part from 1:08-2:31
For all those who are interested, <a href="http://judiciary.house.gov/hearings/hear_11162011.html" rel="nofollow">http://judiciary.house.gov/hearings/hear_11162011.html</a> is the link to the hearing's webcast, which began at 10 a.m. EST.
If someone asks you what SOPA stands for, you can tell them it's the "Stop Online Privacy Act".<p>It's only a Hamming distance of 3 from the real name.
the more government oppression applied to the Internet - the sooner a government oppressure resistant alternative would emerge. The current Internet is a great thing, yet it is fundamentally flawed by being that vulnerable to any whimse of concentrated political and economical interest.<p>While it can't be presicely described how the future free Internet would look, it is possble to imagine some modern implementation of something like the old Fido network with a set of satellites and cables/floats in the international space and waters and the next generation WiFi that will have on the scale of couple orders of magnitude greater range.
I can't wait for someone to post a link to the Pirate Bay in the comments, thereby providing legal justification for taking down sites that criticize SOPA.
<a href="https://supporters.eff.org/thanks/thank-you-opposing-internet-blacklist-bill" rel="nofollow">https://supporters.eff.org/thanks/thank-you-opposing-interne...</a><p>"The service is not available. Please try again later."<p>:/