[Blindtlk] FW: [censored]

Sat Jan 14 03:08:52 UTC 2012

We'll see what he has to say.

"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: Mike Freeman <k7uij at panix.com
To: Blind Talk Mailing List <blindtlk at nfbnet.org
Date sent: Fri, 13 Jan 2012 11:37:40 -0800
Subject: Re: [Blindtlk] FW: [censored]

I suspect David Andrews will inform you differently

Mike Freeman

On Jan 13, 2012, at 10:36, Chris Nusbaum 
<dotkid.nusbaum at gmail.com> wrote:

 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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