In another under-publicized but overreaching government attempt to curb our Internet freedoms, Senators will be voting on what is known as the “Ten Strikes” bill this week. This bill, sponsored by Amy Klobuchar (D-MN), would make it a felony to stream copyrighted content more than ten times—and could result in jail time for offenders.
Will you contact your lawmakers and tell them to oppose this bill?
This law wouldn’t just apply to sites that stream television show and movies. As TechDirt points out, “people embedding YouTube videos could face five years in jail…it could also put kids who lip sync to popular songs, and post the resulting videos on YouTube, in jail as well.” Make sure your Senators know of your opposition. By emailing them directly, you’ll be standing up to big business lobbyists and making a stand for a free and uncensored Internet.Click here to contact your Senators and tell them to vote agains the Ten Strikes Bill.
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To all readers and potential contributors to Colorado Confluence: I am not trying to discourage participation, or to dictate what perspectives can and can’t be expressed, but rather to encourage participation that serves the purpose of the blog, which is to pursue a more intelligent and informed approach to forming our political positions. Any perspective is welcome, whether I agree with it or not, but I strongly prefer that posts be arguments or analyses of some kind, rather than mere political advertisements. Thanks so much!
(A side note: I am not implying either support for or opposition to the bill that Demand Progress is citing. At a glance, given the depiction here, it would appear to have some significant flaws, but I would need more information to make that determination, as I hope would be the case for all of us. Demand Progress has presented an overly scrubbed, overly tilted representation, that does more to inflame than to inform. That is not what I am advocating on this blog.)