What can Canadians do against SOPA?

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I live in Canada but feel treathened by SOPA because it could very well ruin the free internet. Any lead as to what I can do to stop the U.S Congress from doing it?

One way you can help is by spreading awareness about the blacklist bills to your friends (and anyone you're in contact with) in the US.

Talking to Americans is a good idea. The politicians don't know what's good for the citizens anymore, and the citizens don't know that.

One of the sites that supports the strike sent me there since I am not in the US : http://americancensorship.org/modal/sta ... index.html

Canadians might need to host a lot of server farms. If one site gets blocked and it effects others that are not affected by the new law, there would be a group of plaintiffs with a case to bring to federal court. The law is badly written so there's probably a lot of other legal avenues to exhaust.

Why do people feel threatened by SOPA? It has nothing to do with your privacy. The legislation is against piracy.

For the longest time we've felt entitled to a safe form of stealing called "Torrenting" and now it's time to crack down
on this crime and create the jobs we've lost for a decade since this came to be. In the retail and entertainment industries.

@WhiteWidow

The reality is, SOPA has a loophole that forces it to cause security risks. It will not only harm America, but also the rest of the world.

Could you elaborate?

the potential consequences for the average american are being blown out of proportion

You should hit the black link on top of your browser. That's the link to EFF's page for alerting senators to stop SOPA and PIPA. They'll tell you all about its consequences!

In general I do not like freeloaders who want to download, swap files illegally and steal intellectual property from others. But I think that the proposed new law in the USA is a cure with side effects which are far worse than the 'disease' ever could be.

It is like trying to cure a common cold with a nitrogen mustard anticancer drug. Firstly the cure will not work and secondly the side effects of the attempted cure will be very harmful compared with the original problem.

As a result I am strongly against the two bills in their current form.

ACTA is an international trade agreement that aims to do much the same thing as SOPA/PIPA - only on an International scale. Unlike a law, which is public record before it's enacted, no one really knows what ACTA contains. If you want something to fight outside the US - this would be it.

As the bill currently stands, provisions in SOPA and PIPA force ISPs to take steps to block access to sites accused (outside of a court of any kind) of either providing access to copywritten material or "facilitating" the spread of copywritten material.

That effectively means anyone with an even somewhat-semi-legitimate complaint can take down an entire website with an accusation that doesn't need to be proven in court. The fact that the US Government are the ones holding this power in their hands is even more ridiculous.

The security risks everyone is talking about is all related to DNS-SEC. IMO this concern is legitimate - but overblown because as it stands now less than 10% of the Internet at large has implemented DNSSEC (although getting it implemented would dramatically cut down on various types of phishing attacks, and is generally a very good thing)

Canadians have no political standing in the U.S (unfortunately). So they can pray it does not pass. The problem with Canada is when the U.S. gets the sniffles Canada can come down with a high fever.

ruveyn

Boycotting the companies who support SOPA might work. It worked for GoDaddy I believe so it is possible.

Are you trying to say you guys are the face of the world (sniffles and all), and we're the brains? (So to speak)

Click the top message for Wikipedia. That will take you to list of suggestions for action by non U.S. nationals.

ruveyn