Add this image to your site at your own risk! Scary times!

SOPA is too blunt. Please veto.

PROTECT IP Act Breaks The Internet from Fight for the Future on Vimeo.

Tell Congress not to censor the internet NOW! – http://www.fightforthefuture.org/pipa

PROTECT-IP is a bill that has been introduced in the Senate and the House and is moving quickly through Congress. It gives the government and corporations the ability to censor the net, in the name of protecting “creativity”. The law would let the government or corporations censor entire sites– they just have to convince a judge that the site is “dedicated to copyright infringement.”

The government has already wrongly shut down sites without any recourse to the site owner. Under this bill, sharing a video with anything copyrighted in it, or what sites like Youtube and Twitter do, would be considered illegal behavior according to this bill.

According to the Congressional Budget Office, this bill would cost us $47 million tax dollars a year — that’s for a fix that won’t work, disrupts the internet, stifles innovation, shuts out diverse voices, and censors the internet. This bill is bad for creativity and does not protect your rights.

Mozilla is taking action, and so can you.

Wow. These are the things that renew my faith in people.

Point Park University students extend a peaceful start to the G-20 Summit with this crazy awesome flash mob dance. My favorite part is how they all seem to come together (and, at the end, break apart) randomly, as if they never knew each other. Just random people agreeing that peace rocks.

UPDATE

Apparently they started this flash mob in three different places in downtown at the exact same time, 1pm, on Monday, Sept. 21: Oxford Center, PPG Place, and USX Plaza. Point Park has a good video on YouTube below: