STOP SOPA, PIPA, OPEN and ACTA PSA - "Imagine a World"

Imagine a world where the spread of information is controlled by a select few. Where the arts can be censored and the media blocked. Imagine a world where the government decides what news you're allowed to see. Where speech is no longer free. SOPA and PIPA will make this world a reality.

Keep the internet free. Speak up to stop SOPA and PIPA while you still can.

Written, Photographed and Directed by: Cat Doss and Jerome Berglund
Editing and VFX: Jerome Berglund

Talent:
Evan Avtal
Cat Doss
Amber Sharae
Jennifer Nee
Jerome Berglund

Voiceover: Amber Sharae

Special thanks to Moby for licensing his music to us for use as the score.

Category:

News & Politics

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• PIPA
• Stop Online Piracy Act
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• Jerome Berglund
• Evan Avtal
• Amber Sharae
• Jennifer Nee
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• Moby
• Shot in the Back of the Head
• Piracy
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• Net Neutrality
• Google
• Wikipedia
• Blackout
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• The Getty
• Getty
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• Censored
• Blur
• Banned
• Pornographic
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• ACTA
• OPEN

[TheSmokingShow]

Thankfully, it appears the overwhelming cries of outrage which rang out across the internet on the 18th achieved their intended effect and lawmakers have shelved this legislation for the time being, but stay informed and vigilant as Sen. Reid and Rep. Smith have vowed to continue the fight against piracy, and could revive these bills — or others like them — at any time.

[mreddieg]

I loved your commercial but man, the voice over kills the whole tone of the video. Try do that ADR again. The video is wonderful though.

[freetheband12]

while these bills could potentially create a foothold for the government to turn this country into a monarchy, it will be extremely difficult for th to take away our freedom of speech, press, religion, petition or assembly which are all guaranteed by the first amendment, and being in the bill of rights, it makes it very difficult if not impossible to repeal it

[deltaray3]

The problem I have is the hypocrisy of people acting innocent complaining about SOPA, but not realizing that they brought this upon themselves by repeatingly violating copyright over the past 30+ years. Read climagic dot org / txt / anti-sopa-protest.html

[JCperson13]

tcdowning666 is right these bills maybe down but not out

No internet = numerous possibilities 

[panola69]

Wikipedia is already being scrubbed and controlled by the far-left. My guess is that Soros bought them out.

[morbidlyobesecatband]

Aren't corporations supposed to exist for the people, NOT people existing for the corporations? I've been raising a stink about SOPA and PIPA online. Those blackouts definitely helped - when that happened, a lot of major news sources mentioned SOPA and PIPA for the first time. I doubt the OPEN act is much better. The internet is fine.

[johnstarr2001]

The problem I have are the hypocrisy who can understand issues with the impacts what censorship on the internet means but not government run media? Who should be elected, engineering pop-culture, brain washing. Just facts so we can make up our own minds. I think the most important thing to learn and understand is not about a persons idealism its the amount of pigment in ones skin. Censorship is the type of info or lack of, called engineering. Understand what is in front of you or lack of and why

[tcdowning666]

@TheSmokingShow they'll bring it back. they're just waiting until the attention dies down. they will pass something - you can count on it.