Save The Internet: 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
| 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.
| 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
| 15. | cris | my website | Wed Jan 18, 2012 @ 03:26PM |
STOP SOPA now
| 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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