Today is Internet Blackout Day. It is a strike against censorship and SOPA a bill for which a hearing is being held, today January 18th, by the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.
Witnesses today include the CEO of Rackspace, Lanham Napier; Dr. Leonard Napolitano, Director of the Center for Computer Sciences & Information Technology at the Sandia National Laboratories; AND Alexis Ohanian, Co-Founder of Reddit and “Web Entrepreneur.”
For those of us who spend and enjoy our time sharing content on services like Tumblr, Facebook, Twitter, Reddit and more this bill could mean the end of social sharing as we know it. Please, if you haven’t already, take some time to read what this bill means and call your senator. Tumblr’s login page and here you can read, listen, and protest.
