
Even though #SOPA and #PIPA proposition has been pulled out by that idiot who wanted censorship in the first place
Source: http://mashable.com/2012/01/20/sopa-is-dead-smith-pulls-bill/
I'm still a little bit stressed because of my online jobs i.e. Facebook and tumblr.
I don't work much on tumblr, usually when the site just wants to have an upgrade or it's over used or failing, they'd hire me to help them patch shit up, since they need to do things as soon as possible. Facebook is a little more stable and they're not as rushed and crazy like Tumblr. I recently got a job on Facebook and the developers were going crazy about certain things, in particular the site is starting to get a lot of bugs due to unstable system. There's 2 layouts on Facebook, new and old layouts and people are switching to new. So 2 layouts = 2 separate servers. That's kind of a nutter right now, so they are going to force all those who are on old layout to new layout probably end of this month or next, depending on what the fuck they're up to right now. I'm not in charge of it but they discuss a lot about it on the threads.
Just a little concerned about this SOPA shit. Developers are going crazy because there are laws in America about copyright, even without SOPA and that managed to take down a site called MEGAUPLOAD, which is one of the most popular on the world wide web for file storage and also downloading. What's a little crazy about this one is that a lot of internet peeps use it as a piracy bank. And American feds went to Auckland, New Zealand and arrested the guy who owned this site.
[Source: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-16642369]
Developers are talking about how to change or ideas on how to stay under these laws so we don't get into trouble. Another bad thing is that I lost 2 of my Facebook job roles as Advertiser and Photo server. #Sucks
My opinions on this act? Okay no offence to Americans Politics but this is probably the dumbest thing I've ever heard. I don't see why the fuck out of all problems they would travel all the way from their fat thrones in the US on Commonwealth land and arrest some guy that opened a website. We have bigger problems, maybe they should deal with their recession and nation debt right now, than arrest Kiwis.
That's not a smart move because the internet is a very good way of expanding the economy and all this fuckery about money in which I don't really understand much about (Hey, I'm a science freak, not a economist). Censoring the internet isn't going to help, if anything it would make matters worse.
So this is how I feel about SOPA..
Okay, Cheers internet chaps. Since you guys are most likely to be American, remember to set Lamar Smith (chief sponsor of SOPA) on fire.
- Tram Winchester