Costa Rica Web Community joins the fight against censorship and SOUP

After the virtual strike against the U.S. bill SOUP (Stop Online Piracy Act) and the subsequent closure of the site to share files Megaupload , Web community of Costa Rica is not kept on the sidelines in the fight against Internet censorship.

On 17 January the Costa Rican blogging community Ticoblogger announced its support for the struggle led by Wikipedia (website that "switched off" their English page for 24 hours). In Ticoblogger site published a statement which says:

Because we are a united community of people who think differently, but we firmly believe in the right of each of our members to speak freely is that from today and tomorrow, we will join Wikipedia representatively, to make a symbolic struggle against Soup and PIPA.

Visitors to any Ticoblogger blog, you will find messages against Internet Censorship, and the contents partially blocked at the first visit. "

Logo to SOPA. Excerpted from the website Ticoblogger.com

Many blogs within the network of Ticoblogger joined the protest, reproducing the statement, censored parts of their posts or adding their own reasons to fight SOUP, as is the case of the blog The Street Lighting , whose author says:

As a blogger, I can not be in favor of a law that seeks to deprive the world's information, entertainment, and especially culture and knowledge. "

Meanwhile, Julio Cordova, author of the blog Science Fiction says :

Internet has grown by men and women who freely share their ideas. Recreation, knowledge and national and international friendship is one of the great fruits of the tool. They are the least who violate others' rights and wrong solutions only undermine the spirit of the network. Today, as a member of Ticoblogger, this blog joins protest against soup.

Another group blog, Bunny Suicides , shared a text prepared by derechoaleer.org which explains how the law can affect users SOUP even outside the United States. In this regard cite :

although the law only estadounidence territory governed by concentrating most of the country's infrastructure network, almost all sites and services we use daily are affected: Youtube, Wikipedia, Google and Twitter as examples.

On the other hand, the U.S. housing basic network services, such as control over the generic domains (. Com,. Net,. Org) that even if they belong to places outside its territory, from its application may be disqualified from the USA States, regardless of the country's judicial system concerned, as the campaign "anti SOUP" published by the site. "

The news of the closure of the FBI Megaupload and triggered by Anonymous counterattack against the U.S. government (closing the FBI website, etc.) also created a stir in social networks in Costa Rica.

On Twitter reactions were swift. Heidy Murillo (@ Sancarleña77) wrote:

The FBI has political smell a teddy bear, closing # # StopSopa Megaupload after provocation was down. # OpMegaupload # SDP.

Against this background, the author of the blog The Public Wire believes that:

A large part of the Internet as we know it today has gone. Thousands of blogs and forums were useless. A fresh start, Is that all that remains? ¿Would understand my point if it happened the same with Rapidshare?

Entertainment content is a fraction of the great mistake that the U.S. Department of Justice. This is not to ensure the economic welfare of Hollywood or Universal Music, is to ensure and facilitate access to knowledge, culture and information to the world's population. Dozens of free tutorials, free distribution documentaries, photographs, documents and historical cultures have disappeared. "

Written by Luis Diego Molina · Comments (0)
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