[pp.int.general] SOPA - Should we go on blackout strike?

[Pirat@LennStar.de]

+1 on that one.

LennStar

Am 14.01.2012 14:29, schrieb Pat Maechler aka Valio:
> Why not? There are still worldwide petitions running against SOPA.
> If the US is applying pressure on foreign governments concerning their
> legislature on copyright, non-US citizens should not even consider to
> hesitate to criticize the US government as well in that aspect. After
> all the idea of democracy is not that decisions are to be taken by
> foreign lobbyist groups of corporations that became way too big.
> 
> -pat
> 
> On Sat, Jan 14, 2012 at 1:48 PM, Justus Römeth <squig at dfpx.de> wrote:
>> Ahoi!
>>
>> Yeah I don't think there's much sense to a website geared towards European
>> or South American or Australian citizens. In the US I think the PPs of
>> Massachusetts and Ohio are the most active, while they disbanded the
>> national party alltogether (imagine us Europeans having started with a
>> European on instead of the national ones). It would make sense to raise
>> awareness and write a news item on the front page with links to blacked out
>> websites, but I don't think the average visitor of any PP site other the
>> ones in the US is likely to be in a position
>>
>> -J
>>
>>  to put pressure on US legislators.
>>
>>
>> On Sat, Jan 14, 2012 at 11:54 AM, Martin Rieth
>> <martin.rieth at piratenpartei-goettingen.de> wrote:
>>>
>>> Moin Moin Pat,
>>>
>>> Samstag, 14. Januar 2012 - Pirate Parties International -- General Talk :
>>>> TL;DR: Who would opt for a blackout strike on 18th of January against
>>>> SOPA? or should it be later? see http://sopastrike.com/ for details
>>>
>>> There should be a call for action from the pirates in US.
>>> I wont suggest to black a german local pirate page or my homepage, since
>>> the topic is still to much US specific, even if it concerns all of us.
>>>
>>> The pp-international.net is currently linking to:
>>> http://www.pirate-party.us/ which is already on a kind of strike. :-\
>>>
>>> The http://us.pirate.is/ is not really active.
>>>
>>> So i suggest we, members of ppi, start pushing us-pirates into existence
>>> and then to become political activist and then go on strike. ,-)
>>>
>>> In that order. >:-)
>>>
>>> Anyway i suggested wikipedia.org to go on strike.
>>>
>>> I say 42, Martin Rieth
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