Posts tagged speech

GoDaddy Breaks Weak.....No Longer Supports SOPA

Surprise! GoDaddy has just recanted their support of SOPA, issuing a press release and blasting out a massive mountainof tweets on the matter. This comes just hours after they were seemingly cementing their position, shrugging off the boycotts as something that had yet to cause “any impact to [their] business”.

For those who somehow missed it: after GoDaddy publicly stated their support for SOPA yesterday morning, a colossal chunk of the Internet (read: the chunk that understands how the Internet works) began to rally. There were no torches or pitchforks here; the only weapons here were wallets, all being carried off in another direction.

The mob got loud, quick: Cheezburger CEO Ben Huh publicly announced that he’d be taking his 1,000+ domains (I Can Has Cheezburger, FAIL Blog, Know Your Meme, etc.) elsewhere if GoDaddy continued to support the act. Meanwhile, thousands of Redditors pledged to transfer their domains, with December 29th set as the mass-move day.

While it’s nice that they changed their stance (publicly, at least), you’ve got to ask yourself: do you want to continue throwing money at a company blind enough to support SOPA in the first place?

Top searched domains still with GoDaddy

  1. twitch.tv
  2. wikipedia.org
  3. xkcd.com
  4. imgur.com
  5. stackoverflow.com
  6. ruby-doc.org
  7. digg.com
  8. github.com
  9. wordpress.org
  10. wordpress.com

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Will Hunting had it right 14 years ago…..

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What Happened To Our Freedom Of Speech?

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Mario Savio: Sproul Hall Steps, December 2, 1964

“There is a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at heart, that you can’t take part; you can’t even passively take part, and you’ve got to put your bodies upon the gears and upon the wheels, upon the levers, upon all the apparatus, and you’ve got to make it stop. And you’ve got to indicate to the people who run it, to the people who own it, that unless you’re free, the machine will be prevented from working at all!”


“No law shall be passed abridging the rights of the people 
peaceably to assemble …” – New York State Constitution

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‘Coordinated’

Report: Unnamed Justice Department official claims that dozen recent  crackdowns on occupations nationwide were coordinated with Homeland Security, the FBI and other federal agencies

‘Provocations Under Cover of Darkness’

“Mayor Bloomberg made a needlessly provocative and legally questionable decision to clear Zuccotti Park in the dead of night. That some media and observers were prevented from monitoring the action is deeply troubling.” – New York Public Advocate Bill de Blasio

‘We Reiterate Our Support for OCCUPY NEW YORK’

“We condemn the violation of the First Amendment rights of the protesters. It is shameful to use the cover of darkness to trample on civil liberties without fear of media scrutiny or a public response.” 
– New York City Council Progressive Caucus

“Savio’s moral clarity, his eloquence, and his democratic style of leadership inspired thousands of fellow Berkeley students to protest university regulations which severely limited political speech and activity on campus. The non-violent campaign culminated in the largest mass arrest in American history, drew widespread faculty support, and resulted in a revision of university rules to permit political speech and organising. This significant advance for student freedom rapidly spread to countless other colleges and universities across the country.”

DO SOMETHING:

#NeedsOfTheOccupiers | #OccupyWallStreet | #OWS |

 @OccupyWallStNYC |OccupyWallSt.org | NYCGA.net |

 OccupyTVNY | Livestreams

Occupy the Board Room

Occupy Phoenix, AZ | Occupy Los Angeles, CA | Occupy San Francisco, CA |Occupy Denver, CO | Occupy Miami, FL | Occupy Atlanta, GA | Occupy New Orleans, LA | Occupy Boston, MA | Occupy Minneapolis, MN | Occupy Kansas City, MO | Occupy St. Louis, MO | Occupy Raleigh, NC | Occupy Cincinnati, OH | Occupy Philadelphia, PA | Occupy Providence, RI | Occupy Memphis, TN | Occupy Austin, TX | Occupy Houston, TX | Occupy Salt Lake City, UT | Occupy Charlottesville, VA| Occupy Seattle, WA | Occupy Washington, D.C.

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Rick Perry’s Creepy, Bizarre Speech

Hey Rick, Were You Drunk? Or, Off Your Prozac?

WASHINGTON — Republican presidential candidate Rick Perry raised some eyebrows Friday night with a speech performance in Manchester, N.H., that was unusually expressive.

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