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I am a constituent and I urge you to reject the Internet Blacklist Bills (PROTECT IP Act in the Senate and the Stop Online Piracy Act in the House). I am deeply concerned by the danger these bills pose to Internet security, free speech online, and innovation. The Internet Blacklist Legislation is dangerous and short-sighted, and I urge you to join Senator Wyden and other members of Congress in opposing it.

I am a web developer and artist, you can view my website at http://braydon.com I have been doing design and development for the web since the 1990s, like many in my generation, we were the first to experience the Internet in our public schools. That’s the first time I saw the Internet and was so excited, living in a small town, to have access to a world of information outside my own geographic boundaries. This is why the Internet is so important.

I have had a lot of conflict with proprietary software. I’ve paid for my fair share of proprietary software, only to be handcuffed by their licensing terms when I became so involved it, the software, that I wanted to be able to make my own improved version. At the age of sixteen I was an approved Adobe Photoshop Expert for version 5.0. Better is often a subjective term, and proprietary software supports 80% of use-cases, but I am a part of the 20% that has unique needs after spending more that ten years using a computer as foundation for my work. Now, realized the light, and looking outside the cave, I use 100% free software, free as in liberty and not as in price. Software is unlike many other works because it has source code. Developers can either also make available that source code, or to choose to keep it hidden forever. Because information and sharing information is important to business, software is as important as the streets and highways of our country, and shouldn’t be owned and proprietary but should be a part of the public. This is why I support using software that uses licenses such as the GNU General Public License, the BSD, and MIT.

The U.S. government currently doesn’t support this cause, while it is very much related with the responsibilities of a government and should be of its concern. I am asking for more involvement in many existing free software projects by the U.S. government in relation to safeguarding our civil liberties that will help encourage innovation on the Internet.

I oppose the H.R.3261 Stop Online Piracy Act.

I just emailed Congress to urge them to oppose the Internet Blacklist Legislation, known as the PROTECT-IP Act in the Senate and the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) in the House. This legislation seeks to give the executive branch power to conduct slash-and-burn campaigns against websites that allegedly host – or even link to – content that infringes on intellectual property rights. That would “disappear” whole domain names, fundamentally undermining Internet security, and/or choke off their financial support. The Internet Blacklist Legislation puts more sites than ever at risk, effectively upending the DMCA safe harbors that have been crucial to the growth of Internet innovation and creativity.

Sadly, these short-sighted and dangerous bills won’t do much to stop online infringement – but they will jeopardize our ability to speak and read online with the kind of freedom we cherish in the offline world. Deep-pocketed Hollywood lobbyists are aggressively pushing to control and censor the open Internet, willing to sacrifice free speech and our Internet culture in hopes of controlling how people view their movies and products.

We need to stop this bill before it goes any further. Will you contact your representatives in Congress and urge them to oppose the Internet Blacklist Legislation? Visit: https://eff.org/r.C8A

The authenticity of information online is based upon its location and its URL, among other more secure techniques as keys and signatures. This should become a more important issue.

I oppose the H.R.3261 Stop Online Piracy Act. You can read it in full at The Library of Congress. Stop the entertainment industry supported initiative to hijack currently trusted Domain Name Service servers at the level of U.S. controlled Internet Server Providers.

Update: This site can now be viewed with an encrypted connection, visit: https://braydon.com/ You’ll need to confirm the certificate since I’m self-signed and haven’t put down the $250 a year to get one from a certificate authority. This is useful to verify that my domain name and the pages being sent to your browser are indeed coming from my server and not from another server. Domain Name System (DNS) servers can be hijacked and deliver different pages (or be entirely blocked) while still appearing to be on the same domain. This can be done at an ISP, a router, or your computer.

The story features Lisp like pseudo logic that details the logic the robot went through. I’m only familiar with Lisp from managing my Emacs configuration file, enough to realize the reference. Emacs is the only program that I know of that uses Lisp, and I use it every day to edit Python, JavaScript, PHP, HTML, CSS, and sometimes to just write English.