More news on the SOPA, enemy of the internet.
This Is Informative, You Should Watch It of the Day: Mike Mozart of JeepersMedia puts the epic toy fails on hold for a moment to shed some necessary light on one of the most mind-blowing open secrets about the Stop Online Piracy Act: The entertainment industry giants spending millions to get it passed previously spent years actively encouraging the same “piracy” they now claim to oppose.
The video is a little long, but well worth watching all the way through, if only to appreciate the sheer WTF*ckery that is SOPA.
After you’ve watched the whole thing, use this site to find your elected officials and make sure they watch the whole thing too.
As Mozart says: We only get once chance to stop this bill before it stops us.
Also, while we’re at it, GoDaddy — the controversial domain registrar — has come out in support of SOPA.
For many online, that’s a deal breaker — including for Cheezburger CEO Ben Huh, who has announced his intention to move all Cheezburger Network domains away from GoDaddy unless they come to their senses.
If you feel the same way, this boycott thread on Reddit should provide you with all you need to know about moving to another domain hosting service.
[thanks brittany!]
I cannot spread this information enough guys. Another link you should read is YCombinator founder Paul Graham’s decision to blacklist any company that supports SOPA from attending YCombinator demo day, including investors. Here’s a badass quote from the dude himself:
“If these companies are so clueless about technology that they think SOPA is a good idea, how could they be good investors?”
Amen.
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Not The Onion About The Onion of the Day: A story published by The Onion about a new parent education study attributed to the California Parenting Institute of Santa Rosa resulted in major headaches for the 33-year-old nonprofit when many parents took the satirical publication seriously.
According to the The Onion, CPI had determined that there wasn’t a single style of parenting that didn’t cause children to become “profoundly unhappy adults.” All parenting methods were equally successful at yielding grown ups who were bitter, isolated and utterly “unprepared to contend with life’s difficulties.”
The institute’s executive director, Robin Bowen, said she had a hearty chuckle when the article was brought to her attention by her daughter. But the laughter stopped as soon as she reached the office.
Bowen and others spent the day fielding calls from parents worried that there was really nothing they could do to raise their children right. “It’s obviously not OK to list our agency,” said CPI director of marketing and development Wendy Hilberman, “even in satire.”
CPI was eventually forced to release press statement denying the existence of the study and dismissing its results. “The falsified study quoted in The Onion states that all parenting styles lead to the same outcome — unhappy, miserable adults,” CPI says in its statement. “We have been around a long time because we know that parent education does work.”
The Onion responded with a comment saying this wasn’t the first time an article they published was mistaken for hard news.
Sonoma State University communications studies professor Jonah Raskin says people should be more skeptical of content their read online. “If you go online, you will find all kinds of things that are false and misleading about products and individuals,” he said. “If anyone takes The Onion seriously, they are sadly misunderstanding The Onion.”
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God. People are just the worst. But this is hilarious.](http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ltwjkzp81r1qzpwi0o1_1280.jpg)
