We Need a Plan B: What if SOPA Passes?

So it seems like today, everyone has been going off on how SOPA's going to negatively affect the Internet, how it's against the first amendment rights of Freedom of Speech, so on and so forth.

I've signed, like, three petitions.

I've emailed my Congressmen enough with every last one of my known email accounts.

If you haven't done so yet, you can go to Google.com and click a link on the front page to sign a petition, and you can go to Wikipedia.com and enter a search term that isn't SOPA and PIPA and they'll block the site out and you can find out how to contact the people in the House and the Senate that "represent" you, and tell them that SOPA is bullshit.

But the thing is this... so much dumb shit has already passed through Congress.

And I don't exactly see a reason why this doesn't get through as well.

So. Let's say SOPA and PIPA does, in fact, get through Congress, passes as a bill, becomes a law, and fucks up the Internet as we know it.

Now what?

Do we sit down, accept it, and live lives according to SOPA? Or do we retaliate?

"Retaliate? I'm not going to Washington DC with an AK-47. I don't even know where to get an AK-47."

You're thinking too hard, sir. Calm down.

When I say retaliate, I mean, who are we taking down? Who are we going to boycott? Who are we going to yell at symbolically to let them know that we, American citizens, refuse to get bullshitted?

The way I see it is this:

The SOPA thing is all about stopping piracy of copyrighted material. This stems from the Entertainment Industry, which, I feel, is constantly growing worse and worse in quality by the year, via bad ideas, a lack of ideas, bad decisions, idiots, etc.

So, if SOPA passes, are we gonna boycott movies? Are we just gonna not buy another movie ticket or DVD ever again? That sounds like a plan... make the movie industry bleed money because they thought this shit was a good idea.

What about the music industry? Are we gonna boycott music? Fuck concerts, fuck CD's fuck iTunes. Hell, don't even listen to the radio too much. I assume that being the good human being you are, you already have timeless classics on your iPod/mp3 player/whatever you use to play music that can last you longer than whatever crap they call music these days.

Hell, even video games... do we say, fuck them? If you're a real gamer, you have plenty of games that will last you. You don't need to buy the next Madden because the one you have right now is awesome... right? Oh, wait, it's not? EXACTLY!

That's my point... we lower our standards because that's the best the Entertainment Industry decides to put out for it worth, and they make infinite money without trying. And then they have the nerve to bitch about people getting shit for free? Maybe it's because your crap is overpriced? Your movies suck. Your music sucks. Your games suck. Fuck yeah, I might as well see, hear, and play them for free, because that's about all a lot of this shit is worth.

Now, don't get me wrong though...  I do feel like someone who produces stuff and makes a living off of it should get some money from it. However, do a better fucking job. I've been writing Marko Man stories and having people read them for free for years. If I were to make it big, and I were to sell the books, and you think that my books are overpriced and you'd rather read them at a lower price (free included), personally, I couldn't give a shit, because that's how I started... my shit was free anyway. So getting for free isn't much a stretch, nor does it bother me, because I love writing.

And that's the problem with the Entertainment Industry as a whole... the only love is for money. It's not for the art of the product, the quality of the product. SOPA isn't an attempt to refine works made, or produce better materials. Nope, it's all about the money. Money that, one could argue, is not nearly as deserved as it could be.

So yeah... anyway... Plan B. Someone needs to be targeted. And apparently, this target needs to be acquired before the ultimate censorship actually occurs.

Who we boycotting? Because I can't help but shake the feeling that this thing is going to actually pass......

Internet Censorship

So there's talk of the Entertainment Industry pushing the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA), which could censor the Internet as well as cripple and stop websites such as YouTube and FaceBook, limit the use of blogs and vlogs, and could force Google to blacklist certain websites, keeping people from searching for them, finding them, and even viewing them.

Let's say this passes through Congress and becomes a legit law that does in fact cripple the Internet as we know it. Are we willing to blacklist the Entertainment Industry by simply not watching TV and going to movies and buying music until they get the message?

It's a relatively non-violent way of protesting this shit if it were to pass. We simply make the Entertainment Industry BLEED the greed blood that keeps them running (MONEY). It would also allow money to go into necessary things. Like food and bills. It would also force the hands of soooo many, especially advertisers that make money through the Entertainment Industry.

But you know what? I think Americans are too hypnotized to be able to do even that.

To censor the Internet is a pretty blatant breaking of our first amendment rights of free speech and freedom of press. The biggest thing, however, is that the Internet is such a capable enabler and such a great teacher for those who want to learn. Internet is easily the best school in the world, allowing you to learn practically anything you want for free. And the Government clearly doesn't want us to learn, which is why the Government will have no problem passing this, because if people have the ability to learn, then people have the potential to see how full of shit the Government actually is.

Long story short, we, the citizens of the United States of America, should be daring them to pass this. We should be daring them to limit our use of the Internet, daring them to see if we, the citizens of the United States of America, won't make them bleed. We shouldn't have to plead to Congress to not pass this. We should be daring them to pass this and see what happens to their wallets.

But, unfortunately, like with all bullshit that ever happens, we will get upset for three seconds and simply adjust to the bullshit that we've been given.

I could go sooooooo much deeper into this rabbit hole in terms of money, entertainment, education, voting, etc. But I'm just going to keep it simple and end with this...

If this bill actually passes, please don't remain in your hypnosis. Open your eyes, and more importantly, open your mind to how ridiculous things are getting...