SOPA (or) Why the Internet is Dark

If you are on the internet today, you will find a curious thing occurring. All over the vastness of the interwebs, sites small and great are making a point. Some have blacked their logos, some redirect to a dark site, some have changed their front pages to a noir-styled declaration. All of this, the color of black, the non-functionality, the inconvenience... it is all to make a point. A simple point.

This is the internet of SOPA.

Wikipedia, Facebook, YouTube, Google, DeviantArt, WordPress, Livejournal, all the sites you know and love can be taken from you with a simple accusation of copyright infringement. The words can be stripped from your own posts, left to rot in the caches of uncleaned histories, never to be seen again. Images you create because you love a character in a book or film can be torn away from the world. All melodramatic, yes, but true. The internet will be dark and a dark place with no information or ideas, no sharing of art and thought, even the trolls would find themselves adrift.

To some, it may seem a small thing. To some, it may seem out of proportion. Perhaps, perhaps. However when you look at something, anything, that involves the internet you cannot simply look at what it is doing, what it will be doing and what it can be doing. You have to look at how it will make things change and evolve and you simply cannot predict the ways in which the internet can react. The people that make it up ARE the people of the world and as such are as varied and vast as human beings can be.

America is a country of freedom. The internet is pure, concentrated freedom. If you wanted to you could create a world of your own. We cannot give up our freedom, not with the rules SOPA has laid down. SOPA is censorship, it is anti-freedom. If you do not make your voice heard now, you may not HAVE a voice. Take pride in your freedom and protect it with everything you have.

Quite A Day

If there is anyone out there that hasn't seen this yet, starting at midnight (central american) tonight I am going to start a 24 hour event. One Dollar Sketch Day. A dollar a sketch, the entire day, broadcast live just north of this very blog (hint: look up).

I expect to be sitting there, doodling a lot and feeling bad about myself for most of the day. I hope I will be busy doing sketches, and have a lot of overflow. I expect to get bored from lack of work and take a nap sometime around the 12 hour mark. I hope to be so hopped up on caffeine and with so much to do that I will not have the chance to sleep until the event ends.

We shall see what happens, and when. Who pulls through, who stops by, who buys and who just keeps me company. Because all are appreciated.

Ustream if you want to chat while you view (I find it slows down my laptop).
Dollars Go Here should you desire a sketch (note that you must tell me who you are or you will not get your sketch).

It should be some sort of fun, regardless of the exact details of the event.