Defend Our Freedom - Why SOPA, PIPA, ACTA, and other bills are a bad idea 

Opinions by Stephen Boyle…

I can’t tell you how much I respect TED videos for the level of intelligent discourse they provide. They are usually very well thought through and researched. This video is exceptional in its level of giving you insight to DMCA, ACTA, SOPA, PIPA and other copyright oriented legislation in the US and abroad. 

Freedom of information versus protection of content has become a huge conflict. It is an open war between the people and corporate entities. Has society advanced so far as to govern the people within it that it can assume they have no ethical or morale responsibility? Governance over freedom is being financed and the laws are becoming stricter all the time. These are the days when the people are rising up in protest. We are not intentional thieves. The cost of doing business has escalated far too high. 

Corporate financed legislation and courts are deadly to the people being governed. It removes small and medium size business from competing due to police-state mentality. Start up businesses have to dodge through a maze of restricting concerns that often compromise the premise they were formed to serve. 

Some of us work in jobs that fuel this system - when will you find your actions at work don’t honor your life on the street and enslave your friends and family? Honorable work in society today is grossly underpaid. 

The fight is on and the people need to adopt the police-state mentality with our law-makers that they will enact laws that provide for the freedom of the people. Courts need to see the people often have insufficient funding to be properly heard. Legislators, judges, and government-related agency workers need to know they are not above the law of the people - immunity to due process of law is a bad thing to see. It enforces police-state behavior enabling the elite to control the public. 

The common person on the street is viewed as a criminal, guilty until proven innocent. When you “wear your number” responsibly they quiet the sound of sirens intent on muting your voice. This is bondage of the public and commitment into slavery. Do as you are told and everything will be OK… for whom?

Video: Defend our freedom to share (or why SOPA is a bad idea) (by TEDtalksDirector)