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Please Sign and Share; The Irish government are planning on bringing in a version of SOPA.

A similar proposal is about to become law in Ireland. While 7 million Americans contacted their representatives to say No to SOPA in the US, Irish citizens will not get that chance because the new law in Ireland is not being voted on in the Oireachtas.

Instead, the law is being enacted by ministerial order. This new law will give music and movie companies the legal leverage to force Irish ISPs like UPC, Eircom and mobile networks to block access to sites suspected of having copyrighted material on them. It also means judges can order ISPs to block access to sites like YouTube, Facebook and Twitter where an individual user from anywhere in the world has shared infringing material.

Online protest group Anonymous have targeted Irish government websites in a campaign titled #OpIreland. The campaign is meant to draw attention to the proposed “SOPA”-like anti-piracy legislation being considered by Minister for Enterprise, Jobs and Innovation Seán Sherlock. The below petition has been circulating online today in opposition to the move, which critics have alleged is government censorship of the internet on behalf of big corporate interests in the entertainment industry. So far the websites targetted successfully include justice.ie, oireachtas.ie and citizensinformation.ie.

In the last 10 minutes it’s gotten over 1,000 signatures. Please reblog and sign, this does not only affect Ireland, but in the long run will affect everyone that uses the internet.

http://stopsopaireland.com/