SOPA has been everywhere, but I just learned about ACTA recently.  for more info, watch the above, and check out here, here, and here. and the US has signed the agreement as of october 2011. it’s scarier than SOPA since it’s very, very close to becoming enacted and the whole process has been extremely secretive. 

not kidding on the secretive. from wikipedia:

Both the Bush administration and the Obama administration had rejected requests to make the text of ACTA public, with the White House saying that disclosure would cause “damage to the national security.”^[76] In 2009, Knowledge Ecology International filed a FOIA (Freedom of Information Act) request in the United States, but their entire request was denied. The Office of the United States Trade Representative’s Freedom of Information office stated the request was withheld for being material “properly classified in the interest of national security.”^[77] US Senators Bernie Sanders (I-VT) and Sherrod Brown (D-OH) penned a letter on 23 November 2009, asking the United States Trade Representative to make the text of the ACTA public.^[78]

the european parliament will do a consent vote on it early this year, making it the last chance to reject ACTA.

please sign the following petitions to reject ACTA!: 1, 2, & 3.

SOPAPIPAACTAcensorshipinternet censorshipthis shit is bananasand not in the delicious fruity way
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