Today, January 18th, is a day to remember as many sites across the internet go black in protest of bills about internet censorship, SOPA & PIPA.
I would be black as well if I knew how to be. I am talented I admit, but alas, I simply do not know how to make my blog black and the thought of making a mistake and killing my beloved creation is just too scary.
So how scary is the idea of censorship online to you?
For me it is very frightening. I understand the copyright issues, and wanting to protect our children, and the issues of national security for our government online. However I do not think these bills will help in those area but rather harm the whole, and hurt our freedom of speech. Being a military wife all these years I very much support our constitution and I do not think these bills fit with it.
We have ways to protect our children, we have laws about copyright violations, and we have a growing government internet warfare presence at the NSA and other places. We need to support those three areas that are already on their feet. Not make more bills that would harm our freedom of speech and put blinders on the internet for our country.
If we believed in censorship we would be no better than North Korea and other dictatorships that try to brain wash their populations by limiting media and filtering or blocking the internet.
I do not support these bills. Do you?
