Reply #109: *** UPDATE *** americancensorship.org wants you to press button to call your Senator today

[Leopolds Ghost]

Just go to http://americancensorship.org/ and enter your phone and zip code
(e-mail address not necessary) and they will connect you IMMEDIATELY to your Senator.

(Don't make the mistake I did of signing up late at night, they automatically call)

When americancensorship.org calls, the four key talking points they mention in the message are:

1. The bill will do nothing to stop piracy on the Internet. People looking for
pirated material will still be able to find it. The bill does not target any actual piracy,
only copyright claims by third parties on potentially fair-use material hosted on legal websites.

2. The bill would endanger many sites on the web by making them liable for what users post
and subject to shut-down at the request of a copyright owner.

3. The bill is a jobs killer. Many major sites that today employ thousands could never
have started under the Protect IP Act.

4. The bill gives aid and comfort to authoritarian regimes that wish to censor the Internet
using nationwide filtering like in China. If America does so, they will encourage most
nations to embrace censorship using DNS filtering techniques that America previously opposed.