[Blindtlk] FW: [censored]

Sat Jan 14 03:08:47 UTC 2012

Hi Gary,

Good point! Chatting on the phone would be great! I can then tell 
you about that list I have been trying to create and that you 
offerred to help with! Also, if you have Skype, you can add me.  
Please send me your Skype name and I will send you a contact 
request; the only reason why I'm not giving you my Skype name is 
because my dad had a typo when he was creating my account for me 
(I had no idea how it worked at the time,) and I'm not really 
sure what it is.  * Smile! Talk to you soon!

Chris

"The real problem of blindness is not the loss of eyesight.  The 
real problem is the misunderstanding and lack of education that 
exists.  If a blind person has the proper training and 
opportunity, blindness can be reduced to a mere physical 
nuisance."
-- Kenneth Jernigan

 ----- Original Message -----
From: "Gary Wunder" <GWunder at earthlink.net
To: "'Blind Talk Mailing List'" <blindtlk at nfbnet.org
Date sent: Fri, 13 Jan 2012 13:04:33 -0600
Subject: Re: [Blindtlk] FW: [censored]

Hi Chris.  I know about the SOPA and it is real.  What is a bit 
problematic is
assuming one can click on a site and it be okay.  Some sites can 
initiate the
running of programs you don't want, so clicking, like opening 
attachments,
can be dangerous.

Warmly,

Gary

P.S.  I'd love to chat sometime if you have the time.  My home 
number is
573.874.1774.

Gary

-----Original Message-----
From: blindtlk-bounces at nfbnet.org 
[mailto:blindtlk-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
Behalf Of Chris Nusbaum
Sent: Friday, January 13, 2012 12:36 PM
To: Blind Talk Mailing List
Subject: Re: [Blindtlk] FW: [censored]

Eric,

This is the same bill the guy who wrote the email I forwarded was
talking about.  I happen to know the name of the bill: the Stop
Internet Piracy Act (SOPA.) I'm not sure of a bill number, but at
least you can Google the name of the bill and find it.  So how
can you say that what you sent about the same bill
effects all blind people, but what I sent doesn't? Also, both
emails provided a Web site on which you can sign a petition; one
to Congress itself to vote against the bill and one to Electronic
Arts (EA) to tell their officials to make a company-wide stance
against the bill.  So, I saw both emails as a short ad; a teaser
of sorts.  It's an advertising ploy; describe the bill's intent
in a way that gets the audience fired up, then give a Web site
hoping that people will start to feel passionate about supporting
or opposing this bill and will go to the site and sign the
petition.  Also, the email I sent may not be as professionally
written as, say, the official complaints or petitions written by
the NFB's governmental affairs team, but it is a citizen writing
to other citizens asking them to sign a petition and help him
spread the word about something he is passionate about, which he
has the right to do, and so do I to distribute it, and so do all
of us! So, although the email itself might not have a bill number
or any "official" information, you might find that information on
the Web site itself, as that Web site has the actual petition.

If the petition wasn't legitimate, then why would the email have
a Web site of an organization who is circulating a petition, and
gives you a place to sign the petition? And, what makes your
petition any more legitimate than mine? By the way, I read your
ad in the Ziegler; wow! What an appeal to the ladies, LOL!

Chris

"The real problem of blindness is not the loss of eyesight.  The
real problem is the misunderstanding and lack of education that
exists.  If a blind person has the proper training and
opportunity, blindness can be reduced to a mere physical
nuisance."
-- Kenneth Jernigan

----- Original Message -----
From: "Eric Calhoun" <eric at pmpmail.com
To: blindtlk at nfbnet.org
Date sent: Wed, 11 Jan 2012 02:01:52 -0600
Subject: [Blindtlk] FW: [censored]

See this, Chris?  This one affects all blind people.  It talks
about the
bill, its intent, and why people should sign the petition.

Eric

Original Message:
From: "Jess Kutch, Change.org" <mail at change.org
To: eric at pmpmail.com
Subject: [censored]
Date:
Tue, 10 Jan 2012 22:58:45 -0800

Congress has a plan to change the Internet forever.  A bill
they're
debating right now would give the government power to shut down
whole
websites, and even let corporations say which websites should be
shut down.

That means a huge corporation could have any website even
suspected of
violating a copyright shut down -- no questions asked.  The
government could
then completely block all access to sites as big as Facebook or
YouTube if
one person posts one thing on those websites that corporations
don't want
online.

Most major entertainment companies have come out in support of
the bill,
but despite swirling rumors, the huge video-gaming company
Electronic Arts
(EA) has yet to take an official stance.  However, EA is part of
the
Entertainment Software Association, one of the big corporate
lobbyists for
the bill to censor the Internet -- meaning that if EA came out
against the
bill, that would be a serious blow to the people trying to get it
passed.

Shashank Kasturirangan is a student at NYU who's a huge fan of
gaming --
including EA's games -- but he can't believe that EA would want
to mess
with the Internet.  Shashank started a petition on Change.org
calling on
Electronic Arts to stop lobbying for Congress's plan to censor
the Internet
and come out against the bill.  Click here to add your name to
his petition.

http://www.change.org/petitions/tell-electronic-arts-to-oppose-in
ternet-cens
orship?utm_source=action_alert&utm_medium=email&alert_id=dZDVYxQm
LI_oLKqgeiB
KM&me=aa

The Internet censorship bill is particularly dangerous, according
to
advocates, because it would enable the government to set up the
same type
of tools to block online content that are used in repressive
regimes around
the world, like China, Iran, and Syria.  For the first time,
corporations
and the government would be able to say what's acceptable to put
on the
Internet.

While some companies like Google, Facebook, and Twitter have come
out
against the bill, big movie studios, record companies, and their
corporate
lobbyists like the Entertainment Software Association are pushing
Congress
hard to pass Internet censorship.

Electronic Arts has millions of customers around the world
playing video
games like Madden 2012, The Sims, and Scrabble, and they care
deeply about
what the public thinks about their company.  If enough people
call on EA to
oppose the plan to censor the Internet, they will be forced to
come out
against the bill.  And if EA backs off, other companies that
haven't yet
taken a position will certainly think twice before supporting
Congress's
plan to censor the Internet.

Sign Shashank's petition to Electronic Arts to stop lobbying for
Internet
censorship and oppose the bill in Congress.  Click here to sign.

http://www.change.org/petitions/tell-electronic-arts-to-oppose-in
ternet-cens
orship?utm_source=action_alert&utm_medium=email&alert_id=dZDVYxQm
LI_oLKqgeiB
KM&me=aa

Thanks for being a change-maker,

- Jess and the Change.org team

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