America’s fake freedom

Recently, issues with cen­sor­ship of the Inter­net came to the White House. The bill pro­posed that web­sites, such as Blog­ger, Craigslist, Face­book and many more were to be censored.

The Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) is a United States bill intro­duced by U.S. Rep­re­sen­ta­tive Lamar S. Smith to expand the abil­ity of U.S. law enforce­ment to fight online traf­fick­ing in copy­righted intel­lec­tual prop­erty and coun­ter­feit goods. (americancensorship.org)

“On Wednes­day Jan. 18 thou­sands of sites went dark to protest SOPA and PIPA, two US bills rac­ing through Con­gress that threaten pros­per­ity, online secu­rity, and free­dom of expres­sion,” said the edi­tors of americancensorship.org.

When I heard of the bill, I was flab­ber­gasted and pissed. The gov­ern­ment is attempt­ing Com­mu­nism again.

Con­trol­ling our free­dom of speech, our free­dom of press online. It is wrong for the gov­ern­ment to take that away from us, it is unconstitutional.

The gov­ern­ment is mak­ing a mock­ery out of our own Constitution.

I have my own blog; a web­site where I dis­cuss things going on in the world and how it affects the life of Amer­i­cans. I also dis­cuss my per­sonal expe­ri­ences, on my blog, for oth­ers to hear.

Now the gov­ern­ment is try­ing to stop that.

How­ever, my ques­tion to all of you is, “Is Amer­ica really free?” With the talk of cen­sor­ship, Oba­maCare, and many other pro­pos­als that seem com­mu­nis­tic, are we really able to do what we want anymore?

How far is this all going to go? The answer is simple.

It will go as far as we let it.

“What is the point of fur­ther­ing tech­nol­ogy if we can­not even use it as it was intended,” said Sierra Han­ken, pro­fes­sional musi­cian and artist.

Jonathan Hart­ley and Han­ken play in a band known as Joy and Rev­o­lu­tion and because of the bill their whole career may be in distress.

They upload their new music on Blogspot and Band­camp. If the bill is passed their music will be harder to sell and get around to the public.

Another part of the bill is attempt­ing to stop com­mu­ni­ca­tion with the rest of the earth.

They want to ter­mi­nate com­mu­ni­ca­tion through the Inter­net with places such as China, France, and Germany.

Many of the hits on a blog­ger, tum­blr, face­book come from other coun­tries. How will we change the world, if we can­not get in touch with them?

To get more infor­ma­tion about the bill visit, http://fightforthefuture.org/pipa

We as Amer­i­cans need to step up and fight for what­ever we believe in no mat­ter the cir­cum­stances because our voice together can make a dif­fer­ence. It starts with one, it could be you.