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Sir Tim Berners-Lee Speaks Out On SOPA

Posted by samzenpus on from the everyone's-a-critic dept.

natecochrane writes "Father of the web Sir Tim Berners-Lee called for Americans to protest SOPA and PIPA, laws he says violate human rights and are unfit for a democratic country. Sir Tim's condemnation came on the day an editorial in Australia's leading broadsheet newspapers pointed out that although the laws ostensibly applied to U.S. interests they could overreach to impact those in other countries."

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  1. Re:Violates human rights? by Osgeld · · Score: -1, Troll

    you don't loose those rights if the internet or heck even telephone / paper / radio disappear today, though I have the ability to distinguish between rights and methods of exercising them

  2. Re:Violates human rights? by Osgeld · · Score: -1, Troll

    no I am saying SOMEHOW the citizens of the united states exercised their right to free speech without the internet, the interinet is a tool, a method, not a right

    quit being an alarmist

  3. So now the celebrities are weighing in... by DerekLyons · · Score: -1, Troll

    "Father of the web Sir Tim Berners-Lee called for Americans to protest SOPA and PIPA

    So, now that the day of the grassroots astroturf campaign has passed, the celebrities start jumping on the bandwagon. Who will be next? Sally Field? Anthony Bourdain?