They say if you want to get black people to join together in protesting a cause, just put it on the side of a bandwagon and we will all jump on board.
Yesterday, a few of your favorite urban blogs “went dark” in protest of 2 anti-piracy bills that has the Internet in an uproar. Urban bloggers, who certainly meant well, blacked out their blogs yesterday while the TMZ’s and the YouTube’s — websites that these bills would most likely affect — stayed in business as usual.
We never take the 10 minutes to research anything. We just jump on the first bandwagon that comes along because everyone else is on it — or because Russell Simmons tolds us to.
HELLO! The government already has the power to shut websites down. They’re doing it every day.
If you watch the news, some of your favorite blogs were shut down last year — including hip hop website Rapgodfather.com, which now operates from a foreign country.
The anti-piracy bills are intended to reach the thousands of foreign websites that operate daily outside of the U.S. hosting illegal content such as free music, movies and software.
The big interest groups use scare tactics (“the sky is falling”) to get the public to panic unnecessarily. As far as the anti-piracy critics are concerned, if one foreign website is shut down, that’s one too many websites lost in the fight to prevent censorship.
If you run a blog or a social networking account, you’re already practicing censorship.
Every time you ban someone from your facebook or block an idiot on Twitter.com, you are practicing censorship. If you’re so adamant about freeing the Internet of censorship, you can start by emailing Twitter and asking them to remove the block button from your pages.
