Sikora Raises His Voice Against SOPA
If we don’t have a voice, what’s the point? Imagine a world without Facebook, Tumblr, YouTube, Twitter? We ALL will be affected. Sikora raises his voice and stands up against SOPA and PIPA, two acts that could potentially close sites like Sikora Online. How? Well…the new laws, if passed, could allow any company to order the take down of an entire site, disrupt advertisers, money flow, etc. if they “feel” that any content is infringing on copyright. So, any of Sikora’s cover songs or remixes he recorded could fall into that category, same goes with EVERY video on YouTube that features someone singing or making their own version of a song. It impacts everyone, small and large, businesses and fellow web surfers. The law is made to protect against piracy in film and music, but it stems much further out than that.
Law-abiding U.S. internet companies would have to monitor everything users link to or upload or face the risk of time-consuming litigation. That’s why AOL, EBay, Facebook, Google, LinkedIn, Mozilla, Twitter, Yahoo and Zynga wrote a letter to Congress saying these bills “pose a serious risk to our industry’s continued track record of innovation and job-creation.” It’s also why 55 of America’s most successful venture capitalists expressed concern that PIPA “would stifle investment in Internet services, throttle innovation, and hurt American competitiveness”. More than 204 entrepreneurs told Congress that PIPA and SOPA would “hurt economic growth and chill innovation”.
The internet is OUR frontier, our space to explore, grow, create. Having the government throttle and guard every piece of content put out there would damage our creative world we are creating. This is OUR internet.
Two bills before Congress, known as the Protect IP Act (PIPA) in the Senate and the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) in the House, would censor the Web and impose harmful regulations on American business. Millions of Internet users and entrepreneurs already oppose SOPA and PIPA.
The Senate will begin voting on January 24th. Please let them know how you feel. Sign this petition urging Congress to vote NO on PIPA and SOPA before it is too late. Stop SOPA because there is nothing fun about censoring the internet. You can go to Google’s page and fill out the tiny form to attach your name to the petition. Click Here
