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Save The Internet: Stop SOPA / PIPA

Save The Internet: Stop SOPA / PIPA
Heath Huffman - Mon Jan 16, 2012 @ 12:02PM
Comments: 25

Stop SOPA / PIPA

Doodlekit FREE PLAN websites will be down in protest for a 12 hour blackout on:

Wednesday, January 18th, from 8am–8pm EST

Doodlekit has joined an internet blackout protest with many other major internet companies to bring attention to the fact that Congress is trying to pass two well-intentioned (but deeply flawed) bills, the PROTECT-IP Act and the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA).

As written, they would betray more than a decade of US policy and advocacy of Internet freedom by establishing a censorship system using the same domain blacklisting technologies pioneered by China and Iran.

These laws would hold Internet Service Provider and Public Social Media websites (like Doodlekit, Facebook, Wikipedia, Reddit, etc.) liable for all content posted by their users. This in effect would force us to remove all our FREE PLAN websites as we could get sued or shut down for content our users post that the government feels is a violation of these acts.

"Censorship begets censorship, and inherently defies oversight. SOPA is the wrong solution to any problem we might believe it would solve."
Neil Stevens

Click Here for more information. Please Contact Your Congressman to help block these bills.

Comments: 25

Comments

1. Cecilia   |   Tue Jan 17, 2012 @ 12:20PM

STOP SOPA!!!!!!!!

2. Indigo   |   Wed Jan 18, 2012 @ 08:25AM

Sopa shouldn't be passed! :O

As one of my friends so eloquently put it "We are slowly descending into communism"

3. TORNEO PISANO   |   Wed Jan 18, 2012 @ 08:38AM

STOP SOPA /PIPA ...!!

4. angela sanders   |   Wed Jan 18, 2012 @ 08:45AM

I don't feel that censorshipis the way to go. The free website builder is the only way that I can advertise my project to get young mionority boys and girls off the street. My current income status is a barrier between me and the ability to pay for a site. Therefore, the passing of this bill would hinder my efforts to get the word out to parents who don't know what to do about their teens who are in trouble.

Please stop the SOPA/PIPA movement.

5. nadia   |   Wed Jan 18, 2012 @ 09:34AM

Stop SOPA w/out internet freedom what would we(middle school students) do for our research project, assignments, even the grade system would be wrong, please help stop SOPA!!!

6. jake   |   Wed Jan 18, 2012 @ 09:54AM

i really do not care

7. M&N   |   Wed Jan 18, 2012 @ 10:07AM

stop it!

8. orcan1  |  my website   |   Wed Jan 18, 2012 @ 10:18AM

this is a good site

9. Md. Rasel Rana  |  my website   |   Wed Jan 18, 2012 @ 11:01AM

ok

10. Brainkarl  |  my website   |   Wed Jan 18, 2012 @ 11:15AM

i love this

11. jhonsie  |  my website   |   Wed Jan 18, 2012 @ 01:24PM

Stop SOPA nooow!!!!

12. breaira  |  my website   |   Wed Jan 18, 2012 @ 02:15PM

please stop SOPA because of the fact that us childern love the internet . without the internet maney childern will spend ther time doing bad thing. besides the fact that the internet can start drama in children's life.SOPA please stop because if we dont have internet we wont beable to do school project and other things that are requred for us to do the united states schools will go down i know yall dont want that before you stop this website think.. how will this effect the people working kids and school and what they would do with out internet??? my point for saying all this is to keep us occupied and and keep our grades up thank you
From breaira Sutton ...... AGE 12

13. Angela German   |   Wed Jan 18, 2012 @ 03:15PM

please stop SOPA

14. PIEman123   |   Wed Jan 18, 2012 @ 03:24PM

STOP SOPA and PIPA
Thats Not right. Some websites like Wiki are made so users can get info and use their pictures. I know the government means well but if the are worried that ppl shouldnt see things on the internet then the ppl shouldnt look them up!!!

15. cris  |  my website   |   Wed Jan 18, 2012 @ 03:26PM

STOP SOPA now

16. Brian   |   Wed Jan 18, 2012 @ 03:27PM

You just lost a customer, onto the next one. Shutting down caused you to lose business.

17. JB   |   Wed Jan 18, 2012 @ 03:43PM

Very upset to attempt a visit to my [ * FREE PLAN ] BUSINESS WEBSITE, only to find Doodlekit is participating in this blackout ordeal. Not a happy customer!!! :-/

* Edited By Doodlekit

18. Eida   |   Wed Jan 18, 2012 @ 04:08PM

PLEASE DON'T!!!!! I NEED THIS SITE!

19. K. Thomas   |   Wed Jan 18, 2012 @ 04:12PM

JB & Brian,

I think you missed the point - if those laws pass there won't be ANY free websites, at all, ever, on ANY website builder or hosting company (not just Doodlekit).

20. Geoff Sides   |   Wed Jan 18, 2012 @ 04:17PM

Stop censorship!!! The Government that has the power to give you anything you want has just as much power to take anything from you it wants.

21. Sara Jewell   |   Wed Jan 18, 2012 @ 04:34PM

Stop SOPA!!!!

22. Ma. Rica Ana V. Roqaue   |   Wed Jan 18, 2012 @ 06:23PM

stop that bill !!!

23. TA418   |   Wed Jan 18, 2012 @ 06:52PM

Can you change it to a 6 hour blackout instead? From 12:00 am to 6:00-7:00 am?

24. Manny Cruz   |   Wed Jan 18, 2012 @ 07:21PM

I agree that SOPA must be stopped, but must Doodlekit really shut down Free Plan Sites? They could have left us Freebies alone and shut down their own homepage! My supervisor and I had a real suprise when I went to show him the draft site I created for the school i work for. He was not at all pleased when he was led directly to this! And nither was I! Very unsatisfied! And I was thinking of chosing an actual plan that you have to pay monthly! No sir! I'm sticking to free! Doodlekit does NOT deserve our business! Now I face deep trouble at work because my boss thinks this was one big joke!

25. Heath Huffman  |  my website   |   Wed Jan 18, 2012 @ 07:37PM

FREE SITES ARE BACK UP!

Sorry for your troubles Manny, but FREE website would be the ones mostly effected by this (since we would have to shut them ALL down), so it only made sense that they should be the ones notified of SOPA & PIPA. The point was to bring attention to the issue - to give people a 'taste' of what might happen indefinitely (not just for 12 hours). You got that taste and it does appear you did not like it. We knew we might lose a few customers over this, but better that then to lose our whole business, internet freedoms, and much more.

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