On January 18th a bulk majority of the US participated in “blacking out” their websites in accordance with striking against SOPA, myself included. We sent a strong message that the internet needs to stay free but the fight isnt over yet…

On Jan 24th, Congress will vote to pass internet censorship in the Senate, even though the vast majority of Americans are opposed. We need to kill the bill – PIPA in the Senate and SOPA in the House – to protect our rights to free speech, privacy, and prosperity.

Fighting back and protesting these bills is not a complicated process.

(1) First, educate yourself and what SOPA/PIPA is.
Sources:
• http://sopastrike.com/
• http://americancensorship.org/
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stop_Online_Piracy_Act

(2) Make an effort to sign the online petitions on the previous pages Ive linked you to.

(3) Right click, and choose “Save As” or “Save Image As” on a Mac on the custom STOP SOPA! badge Ive created below and make it your avatar on Facebook, Google+, Twitter, etc. until January 24th.

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SOPA essentially returns under a new name but now effects the net globally through 2 new agreements known as ACTA and TPP. Learn more and continue to take action at: http://killacta.org/

Ive created a new avatar/badge/profile pic to reflect the recent agreements that have morphed out of SOPA/PIPA — Download and/or share it if you feel inclined…

In short, after finding out that I was paying upward to 4x what I had originally paid for my domain when I had originally signed up, I decided to let customer service know that it was unacceptable to do such a thing without notifying their customers. In response to my complaint they decided to act like complete dooshbags and deny any such claims. Additionally, they were extremely rude on the phone and claimed I had a freeze on access to my account due to lack of previous payments (which by the way was total bullshit since I can prove the charges with my credit card bills each year) – so as a result, I decided to threaten to close my account if they didn’t reduce my rate and refund the several years of overcharging me without my knowledge. They failed to comply so I went forth with closing my account and as a result lost my domain in the process since I was unable to access my control panel in order to transfer to a more reliable, less shitty host. So yeah…FUCK YAHOO!

Side Note: Still trying to replace all the missing content from the last site since it was all fried when I lost the domain…should have it all back up relatively soon.