Internet Blackout of the Day: The Great Wikipedia Blackout of 2012 has begun.
Reddit, TwitPic, Mozilla, Mojang, and thousands of others will soon follow suit. The Internet is officially on strike! Why? Because the House and Senate are conspiring with the entertainment industry to break the Internet.
Make no mistake: SOPA has not been shelved. And a vote on PIPA is just around the corner. Luckily, hundreds of companies, charities, and notable individuals with strong moral character have joined forces to stop these dangerous Big Brother bills from moving forward.
The fight is far from over, but hopefully today’s blackout will help bring this important matter to the attention of folks who rely on the Internet for entertainment and education, but have so far remained oblivious to SOPA and PIPA and their harmful consequences.
Do your part. Take action. Stop SOPA and PIPA and put an end to threat of Internet censorship.
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If you go to the English Wikipedia page and input your zip code, it will give you the contact information of your representatives.
Contact them.
The hipster movement in and of itself is a failed attempt to subvert consumerist capitalism by using the same old tired techniques (i.e. fashion) which are constantly being reproduced and re-imagined by the capitalist superstructure in the first place. What many think of as “counter-culture” quickly becomes as artificial, mass-produced, and shallow as what the original adopters of said counter-culture hoped to escape in the first place. Corporate entities like Apple and American Apparel co-opt these movements from their inception, thus creating an endless cycle of buying something which is perceived to be new and avante garde, usually from the same company which previously was thought of as stale and/or oppressive.
Poor hipster cat, if only he/she knew those glasses were most likely made by slaves laboring under sweatshop conditions in China. Alas, such irony! “The master’s tools will never dismantle the master’s house.” —Audre Lorde
If this humpback whale could speak, it would say “Thank you”
These folks were out on an expedition in the Sea of Cortez when they cam upon a humpback whale who had been badly entangled in a fisherman’s net. She wasn’t going to be able to breathe much longer, as her fins were bound to her body and she was exhausted.
Watch this adventure as they decide to cut her free, foot by foot, finally releasing her from the net. The best part? Although whales can’t talk, they are clearly intelligent, social and emotional. Starting at about 6:30, these boaters get the show of their lives. Clearly, the whale is saying “Thank you”.
“Mommy I know what she’s doing … she’s showing us that she’s all free”
And on the subject of burning books: I want to congratulate librarians, not famous for their physical strength or their powerful political connections or their great wealth, who, all over this country, have staunchly resisted anti-democratic bullies who have tried to remove certain books from their shelves, and have refused to reveal to thought police the names of persons who have checked out those titles.
So the America I loved still exists, if not in the White House or the Supreme Court or the Senate or the House of Representatives or the media. The America I love still exists at the front desks of our public libraries.
— Kurt Vonnegut
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— Voltaire
— Molly Ivins
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Internet Blackout of the Day: The Great Wikipedia Blackout of 2012 has begun.
Reddit, TwitPic, Mozilla, Mojang, and thousands of others will soon follow suit. The Internet is officially on strike! Why? Because the House and Senate are conspiring with the entertainment industry to break the Internet.
Make no mistake: SOPA has not been shelved. And a vote on PIPA is just around the corner. Luckily, hundreds of companies, charities, and notable individuals with strong moral character have joined forces to stop these dangerous Big Brother bills from moving forward.
The fight is far from over, but hopefully today’s blackout will help bring this important matter to the attention of folks who rely on the Internet for entertainment and education, but have so far remained oblivious to SOPA and PIPA and their harmful consequences.
Do your part. Take action. Stop SOPA and PIPA and put an end to threat of Internet censorship.
[wikipedia.]
If you go to the English Wikipedia page and input your zip code, it will give you the contact information of your representatives.
Contact them.](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lxza8hsrgc1qzpwi0o1_1280.jpg)
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