Fedora and SOPA

mario juliano grande balletta mario.balletta at gmail.com
Fri Jan 13 16:02:58 UTC 2012


i think we should, show of force

On Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 1:42 AM, Nicu Buculei <nicu_fedora at nicubunu.ro> wrote:
> As most of you probably know already, in the close future in the USA is
> scheduled for debate (and likely approval) a new law, called SOPA (Stop
> Online Piracy Act) which is poised to widely restrict freedom on the
> Internet [1]. It could also affect a lot the working of the Fedora Project,
> which is a) based in USA and b) relying on user-generated content.
>
> Some organizations, most notably Reddit at the moment, are planning an a
> awareness campaign [2] about this on January 18 (Wikipedia is also weighting
> it). Some will do a full blackout for 12 hours, some will put a few
> informational banners.
>
> Is Fedora willing to join such a campaign?
>
> [1] http://americancensorship.org/infographic.html
> [2] http://blog.reddit.com/2012/01/stopped-they-must-be-on-this-all.html
>
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