has gone WHITE to support SOPA / PIPA!
(Support?!?! What?!?! Keep Reading) While a bunch of other sites are going "dark" to protest SOPA/PIPA, we're over the moon about the whole thing. Why? Honestly, we've been bringing you great organic produce for over a year, and we're tired. And SOPA/PIPA is the perfect excuse to quit. (Are you really QUITTING?!!?! What?!?! Keep Reading.)
While SOPA might be "almost dead," it's not quite all the way there, and under various drafts of both SOPA/PIPA, Milk and Honey Organics could have its DNS assignment (the thing that turns an IP address, like 10.0.0.1, into words like milkandhoneyorganics.com) revoked without notice simply for linking to content that could come under foreign copyright claims. This means, even if it is actual public information in and of itself, if we link to it, we can be shut down. And thank God, cause we’re about ready to crack under the strain of being on top of the work all the time.
Here's a helpful video put together by Fark.com to explain why you should support SOPA/PIPA:
- http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/misc/R41911.pdf - provides the absolute best summary I've seen of the bill, if you don't want to read the actual bill itself. It also states the concerns about the bill.
- http://www.publicknowledge.org/blog/coica-v-20-protect-ip-act does a great job of explaining WHY the wording is vague, instead of just stating the the wording is "too vague" (which is vague in itself, and what I've seen most places )
- http://blogs.law.stanford.edu/newsfeed/files/2011/07/PROTECT-IP-letter-final.pdf - Letter from 108 law professors, again pointing out the problematic sections of the bill.
- For reference, the bill itself: http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/BILLS-112s968rs/pdf/BILLS-112s968rs.pdf