Fwd: Urgent: Stop [U.S.] American censorship of the Internet

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From: Creative Commons <development@creativecommons.org>
Date: Tue, Nov 15, 2011 at 4:02 AM
Subject: Urgent: Stop [U.S.] American censorship of the Internet
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Urgent: Stop [U.S.] American censorship of the Internet

We're sending this special edition of our newsletter today because the U.S. Congress is holding hearings on horrible legislation known as the "Stop Online Piracy Act" (SOPA) which would directly attack the technical architecture of the Internet and put every website at risk of being taken offline, even due to a single baseless accusation from a copyright troll. SOPA will hit "user generated content" especially hard -- many collections of CC-licensed works will disappear. Read more in our blog post -- Urgent: Stop [U.S.] American censorship of the Internet.

To take action now by contacting officials and spreading the word, please visit americancensorship.org -- a site that CC is proud to support along with friends such as the Electronic Frontier Foundation, Free Software Foundation, and Public Knowledge.

If you're an educator, please consider signing this community letter against SOPA from the education community.

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