Defend our freedom to share (or why SOPA is a bad idea)

http://www.ted.com What does a bill like PIPA/SOPA mean to our shareable world? At the TED offices, Clay Shirky delivers a proper manifesto -- a call to defend our freedom to create, discuss, link and share, rather than passively consume.

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[SierraPe]

Bald Tom Hanks is right!

[sepiasiren]

SOPA/PIPA are horrid, insidious bills, using artist like me to hoodwink non thinkers into believing they are trying to protect intellectual property. Well most artists I know of--almost 90 percent that I spoke to , are against them. Sure, I don't want my stuff stolen, however, I am all for fans SHARING my stuff, it HELPS me, and true fans don't mind supporting reasonably priced works. Just the gov'ts way of trying to manipulate away even more freedoms--Ron Paul ya'll 2012

[ex0duzz]

@shraka Both Aussies then :)

I agree. But even when it's about the US(citizens), they still don't care it seems(NDAA, and look at the attention/reception it's gotten.. PIPA/ACTA etc will pass ez). They are too busy watching reality tv and making ends meet etc that they don't care about or know about where this is heading. When they do 'care', it will already be too late, or we would have to have a much harder fight(most likely violent, and we'll be the ones using guerrilla tactics etc).

[Joesup342]

why cant the media realize that if they eliminate the copitision then they eliminate their customers

[Joesup342]

i thought this was called the land of the free and the home of the brave sopa and pipa is just antie american

[shraka]

@ex0duzz Exactly, it's bullshit. I don't know how anyone can call a nation that tortures people (no matter WHAT they've done) a civilized country. The US is a for profit, for sale, unaccountable bully nation with a distinct lack of morality.

[shraka]

@ex0duzz I'm actually an Australian Citizen. But you wont be able to get the US to agree that indefinite detention for EVERYONE is BS until you get them to agree it's not on for US citizens. My point was more that it goes to show how little the US government cares about the people it's supposed to be protecting.

[ex0duzz]

@shraka Also, i find the position of caring only because it affects US citizens to be morally repugnant. I've been fighting this fight for over 10 years, i've had people call me nuts for even mentioning oligarchs, legalizing all drugs(but mainly weed + decrim of the rest), etc etc. It's like them saying that US lives are the ones that only matter, and we should only be concerned when it's possible that it can now happen to us, but not when it was for foreigners? That attitude can F.Off

[ex0duzz]

@shraka Well, we've had the Patriot Act for a long time now(10 years?), and i'm not a US citizen, so the NDAA(which i'm guessing you're referring to) would affect US citizens more than it would affect me. They can and already do extraordinary rendition, torture, assassination, illegal unlawful detention without habeus corpus etc etc.

Obama didn't need to do anything really except keep the status quo, but yeah.. he took it up even more. And democrats don't say anything about it. Bullshit

[DVJLabonte19]

Great talk. I think the most important message in this now is that we should be 'ready' for more assaults on our internet freedoms. (ACTA is already on its last dying breaths) Its sad to see that greed and fear can so easily manipulate human minds. It is, however, empowering to see enlightened minds speaking out against injustices to the human race. We are poised on the edge of a knife right now, which way will you chose to sway. We the people, united, forever.

[darkultra]

Excellent! Right on the nail! The small profit big media can reap from this draconian act is nothing compared to the censorship, control and surveillance ACTA will bring.

[VTECZpirates]

@SierraPe EARN THIS ....

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EARN IT