Here's what I want you to do, America.

anshinwrites:

Go to that website—it’ll let you look up the representative for your Congressional District (if you click to look up your +4 zip code, it’ll take you to the USPS website, so do that first).  After you’ve put in your information, it should give you the page for your district’s representative.

If your representative has a decent webpage, you should be able to find contact information there, including their local and DC office addresses and their email addresses.

If you are capable and willing, I want you all to write or type or otherwise create a physical snail-mail letter to your representative.  It’s easy enough for our government to ignore the outpourings of emails and electronic petitions they’ve been getting from us—one click, and you can delete all of those emails without looking at them.  (Maybe not the best thing to do when you should be listening to your constituents, but I don’t doubt that it happens.)  Snail mail is a lot harder to ignore.

Write a letter to your representative telling them why you oppose SOPA/PIPA/OPEN (and ACTA, and PCFIPA, if you’re so inclined, though the USA has already signed ACTA and has already enacted PCFIPA) and explain that if they vote for or otherwise back this sort of legislation without further review and without listening to the people addressing the problems it could cause, then you will see to it that they do not continue to represent you, as they are not representing your interests as it is.  (For that matter, you might want to address why NDAA and the Enemy Expatriation Act are terrible and terrifying as well, and why you want to see NDAA repealed and the Expatriation Act dropped.)

Ultimately, if your representative chooses to ignore you, then follow through on that threat, and don’t vote for them, if you are of a voting age.  And if you are of a voting age and aren’t registered, then register.  Elections can be powerful forces.  See to it that you are fairly represented by Congress.

I think it’s time that we take the fight for the internet (and for our right to freedom and privacy) off of the internet.

Threatening New Bill. Worse than SOPA/PIPA. This Bill Entitled "The Protecting Children from Internet Pornographers Act of 2011" Is a Bill with overly broadened language that greatly threatens all of us. "under language approved 19 to 10 by a House committee, the firm that sells you Internet access would be required to track all of your Internet activity and save it for 18 months, along with your name, the address where you live, your bank account numbers, your credit card numbers, and IP addresses you've been assigned."

runicbasso:

flannpyrope:

turntechdickhead:

selfproclaimedhilarious:

johnwhatsun:

princess-of-dicks:

himapapaftw:

pantskit:

tsarcasm:

this is so absurd that i honestly thought it was a joke until i clicked the link to find out that people in our government are reallythat stupid

are you fucking kidding me

what the actual fuck

wow that is just ridiculous, does this country have any freedom anymore 

omfg

oh god please no

george orwell you prophetic motherfucker i hope youre rolling in your grave with cackles at our foretold misfortune

btw i hope the government likes gratuitous violence and porn because if this goes into affect thats just about all im going to be looking at

gurochan im looking at you

no

no

no

jesus

WHAT IN THE EVERLOVING FUCK.

(Source: jewfullness, via anshinwrites)