+Rep thread for those who have contacted their Senators and House Reps against SOPA/PIPA

[sailingaway]

SOPA in the House and PIPA in the Senate.

My thought is that people could plus rep people who did that. Since I'm starting it, I'll be the exception to that (too self serving), but I did email my Rep and Senators.

Post below if you do!

find your rep here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page

 

[beardedlinen]

Already in the bag.

 

[Okie RP fan]

I am calling tomorrow morning on my way to work.

Emailing at this point may not get to their eyes in time. But, it never hurts to do both.

+rep SA and beard

 

[green73]

Done. It's quite easy here:
http://americancensorship.org/

 

[growburn13]

Done. It's quite easy here:
http://americancensorship.org/

Just completed here. Having partner of mine do the same right now.

 

[MJU1983]

I Tweeted my Senators and filled out the ACLU petition (they are usually dynamite).

https://twitter.com/#!/mju1983/status/159481814963077120

https://secure.aclu.org/site/Advocacy?cmd=display&page=UserAction&id=3859&s_sbsrc=111511_SOPA_bor.

 

[orenbus]

Done a few days ago.

 

[sailingaway]

I plus rep'd those who did, and will get Okie when he has.

 

[IterTemporis]

Done. It's quite easy here:
http://americancensorship.org/

Thanks for that. Filled it out.

 

[orenbus]

I plus rep'd those who did, and will get Okie when he has.

same

 

[MJU1983]

Done. It's quite easy here:
http://americancensorship.org/

Slickdeals.net had a link to this one as well: http://www.sopastrike.com/strike/

 

[heavenlyboy34]

you people are causing massive rep inflation!!!!1! ETA: One day this rep bubble is going to burst, and it's going to be verrry ugly!

 

[pipewerKz]

Done a while back. Got a letter back from Dean Heller (NV) that said he supports it and thinks it will protect the internet and curb online piracy.

I plan on contacting them all again now that it has gotten so much attention.

http://fightforthefuture.org/pipa/

 

[Jeremy]

Blumenthal had bad topics to pick from in the contact form so I filed it under schools:

"Senator Blumental,

As you may know, learning in the 21st century is highly dependent on the Internet. Please oppose PIPA so our children can grow up with access to the free Internet."

Although I realize physical mail is more affective than email...

 

[Jandrsn21]

Done twice..... Spare the rep though, save it for more extraordinary actions. As an American citizen and an human being, it is your duty to keep the internet free.

 

[SaulPaulinsky]

Done on three different sites.

I hope it does some good. Kinda skeptical, would be thrilled to be wrong.

 

[bricklayer]

Used the ACLU one, though I had minor concerns about the fixed text attached at the bottom of their boilerplate message.

I changed the original message to the following:

As a constituent who is a U.S. Patent Agent and also holds a graduate degree in electronics engineering, I want to express my deep concern with this legislation. Although protection of copyrighted material both online and offline is important to encouraging artists (like inventors) to keep producing new forms of expression, the language of the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) is severely flawed and will not only lead to the takedown of lawful content, but may cripple the Internet entirely, which would be bad for business, as well as harm freedom of speech, which is protected under the Constitution.

SOPA eliminates the concept of sites 'dedicated to infringing activity' and enables law enforcement to target all sites that contain some infringing content, no matter how trivial, and those that 'facilitate' infringing content. The potential for impact on non-infringing content is immense. Sites with user-generated content, like YouTube, Twitter, and Facebook, would be especially vulnerable, as one small piece of infringing content could lead to blocking the entire site.

Congress should focus not just on the goal of protecting copyright owners, but also protecting the speech rights of consumers and providers who are reading and producing wholly non-infringing content.

 

[eduardo89]

I dont have a representative or senator because I don't live in the US. But I've already sent about 50 emails to representatives. I did the same thing with the audit the fed push in 2010 (I think it was that year) where I emailed/faxed every single member of congress at least once. I'll do the same with SOPA

 

[libertythor]

Done! I contaced Rep. Vicky Hartzler, Sen Claire McCaskill, and Sen Roy Blunt.

 

[MJU1983]

Done! I contaced Rep. Vicky Hartzler, Sen Claire McCaskill, and Sen Roy Blunt.

Cool, those are my peeps as well. Blunt/McCaskill will vote YAY on all POS legislation. Hartzler being new, can be persuaded on various issues. Calling especially helps...I'll probably do that tomorrow.