House Kills SOPA

We at the Pirate Party of Canada are very pleased to announce that US Congressional Representative Eric Cantor (R-VA) has stated he is stopping all action on SOPA, effectively killing the bill.

Pirate Parties across the globe worked hand in hand with online digital and civil rights movements to protest the bill, and these efforts have paid off wonderfully. SOPA was not just a detriment to United State’s citizen’s access to an open internet, but a detriment to the world’s citizens. Canada’s internet backbone goes through the United States, which means that we especially are subject to the whims of US legislators in this digital age.

The online protests about the bill were surprising and large. They ranged anywhere from callng Representatives, companies, and senators to get them to change their mind, to actively moving domain’s away from and targeting the business model of the companies that supported/lobbied for the bill. GoDaddy lost well over 100,000 domains in the space of about 10 days due to their involvement with these bills, along with other various targets. The Pirate Party of Canada is proud to have been part of the thousands of domain registrants who moved their domains away in protest of GoDaddy’s support of SOPA.

Jake Daynes
Official Representative
Pirate Party of Canada

Source Material: http://www.examiner.com/computers-in-denver/house-kills-sopa