Aligning goals

Many problems that we have today are problems of not aligning goals among multiple groups of people.  Often we think about our goal from our own perspective and fail to see it from someone else's perspective.

Beginning of new era of online activism?

I am sure everyone has heard the news that SOPA has been shelved indefinitely by Congress.  This is a huge victory for all internet users who voiced their concerns through different channels.  Although the related bill PROTECT IP was passed by Senate Judiciary Committee unanimously and SOPA looked strong with backings from heavy-weight lobbyists, internet users were able to rally and change the course.

Future of Social Network will go offline on this Wednesday (1/18/2012)

After reading more about SOPA and what it will mean to overall internet, I've decided to join the protest by redirecting Future of Social Network site to Stop SOPA site.  If you have not heard about SOPA yet, you can read more about it on my blog entry from yesterday.

If you run a website or blog but unsure as to how to join the protest, I want to share 3 options from which you can choose from.  I've found a couple of SOPA protest sites: http://americancensorship.org/modal/sopastrikeoverlay.html and http://protestsopa.org/.  I'm sure there are many more.  You can choose any of the below methods to redirect.

Why not SOPA?

There has been a lot of chatter around Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA).  In a nutshell, it aims to prosecute those who share any copyright-protected material online by cutting off advertisement payments, having search engines remove the links to those offending sites and requiring ISPs to block access to those sites.  Its intent is to protect copyright holders and intellectual properties by creating legal avenues for copyright holders to go after online piracy sites.  You can read more from this actively maintained Wikipedia link.