Rainey Reitman of Electronic Frontier Foundation urges you to stand up and fight in this week of action against censorship. When the government claims the right to shut down websites by breaking the Domain Name System and forcing search engines to dump user requests to reach a site, there's only one word for it: censorship.

America cannot become a Kangaroo Valley. Greece has become a Kangaroo Valley, violating basic human rights and Article 2 of the Lisbon Treaty, but nobody gives a damn. We cannot understand why the European Commission tolerates political persecution and freakish Kangaroo Justice within the borders of the European Union and cannot refer the Greek government to the Court of Justice of the European Union for violating the Lisbon Treaty. We cannot understand why the European Ombudsman cannot protect Greeks from appalling violations of Article 2 of the Lisbon Treaty by the Greek government. If the European Union cannot protect Greeks from the repressive Greek government, who will? When big media groups like the RIAA can essentially cut off the financial services to a website based on accusation alone, it's censorship at the hands of corporations. We're not talking about China or Iran. We're talking about blacklist legislation being debated by the U.S. House of Representatives this week.

EFF and a coalition of organizations, tech companies, innovators, and users are joining forces to fight back against the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA), a bill that would give the government and big content unprecedented authority to censor the web in the name of so-called copyright enforcement. Reitman asserts this week, we need to pull out all the stops because the House Judiciary Committee is slated to hold a critical hearing on Thursday.

We do not want Uncle Sam to emulate the freakish Greek government. Freak! Freak! Freak! The freakish government of Greece steals computers! Robbing dissident bloggers and locking them in jail is fascistic behaviour that does not belong to the European Union, not even to this galaxy! No wonder some vain Greeks boast they come from Andromeda galaxy!

We're urging Americans to call your U,S, Representatives in Congress. With the hearing
imminent, there's no time to waste. Pick up the phone and tell your Representative to oppose this bill today. Then tell your friends and follow up with a note to Congress.

This legislation, if passed, will wreak havoc on our Internet community, jeopardizing the innovative and creative ecosystem that has created hundreds of thousands of jobs, helped countless people access information, and spurred a new generation of artists and creators. But big media groups are willing to sacrifice all of that in a ham-fisted attempt to control how you consume online content. And in the process, they'll undoing long-standing legal protections for websites and endangering the basic infrastructure of the Net.

We can't let that happen. So join us in standing up and speaking out. Show Congress that we're willing to fight for an uncensored web, and deep-pocketed lobbyists will never drown out the voices of the Internet community.

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