Big time threat to YouTube

Congress is trying to apply the screws to YouTube,Twitter and others. I received the following from Demand Progress. Here it is:

URGENT ACTION NEEDED: New Internet Blacklist Bill Could Shut Down Twitter And Youtube!

A bit of an emergency: The rumor all over Capitol Hill is that the House version of the Internet Blacklist Bill will be introduced this week, probably on Wednesday. Our allies on the Hill say the bill's so bad that it could effectively destroy Youtube, Twitter, and other sites that rely on user-generated content by making the sites' owners legally responsible for everything their users post. Nobody will want to take that risk, so sites like Youtube and Twitter could be forced to shut down. Facebook, Myspace, and Google+ would be at risk. The cyberlocker and streaming provisions could affect your iPhone, Android, AmazonCloud, Pandora, Spotify, Grooveshark and even your email accounts. And all of this is being driven by a few major corporations who are trying to protect their private profits.
Will you use the form at right to ask your Congressmember not to cosponsor the legislation, at least until they've heard our concerns?

ALSO: We need to completely overwhelm the social networking sites with info about this legislation so we can bombard Congress with constituent contacts:


Congress is out to destroy our rights and we need to defend them so sign that petition right away and let them know we won't allow them to do so.

Edwards campaign:fuck men

Edwards Touts Husband's Record for Women

Monday, April 30, 2007

CONCORD, N.H. - Elizabeth Edwards said Monday her husband will do more to help women than any other candidate, including the one hoping to become the nation's first female president.

"If you want to make a difference in women's lives by your vote in 2008, vote for John Edwards," she said in a brief interview with The Associated Press between campaign stops.

"That is not intended as an anti-Hillary statement of any kind," she added, referring to Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, the front-runner for the Democratic nomination.

Earlier, Elizabeth Edwards told Southern New Hampshire College students that empowering women is about more than seeing women attain high offices. It's about providing higher wages, health care and educational opportunities to women at the margins of society.

"The power of women to change this country doesn't happen just at our highest levels," Elizabeth Edwards said. "The real impact of empowering women will be when it happens across the board."

The trip was Edwards' second to the early primary state since announcing in late March that her breast cancer had returned and spread to the bone. Since then, she said no one has approached her to criticize her decision to stick with the campaign, and those who have done so online or by other indirect means don't know what they're talking about.

"People who haven't faced it just don't know yet what they would decide to do so it was easy to speak from a position of ignorance," she said. "Plus, we're a pretty judgmental society."

Those who question what the decision could mean for the Edwards' two young children should realize what the death of their 16-year-old son in 1996 taught them about parenting, she said.

"With respect to our children, I think they might understand that we have given this a lot of thought even before the diagnosis because of Wade. One of the great things I can say about being Wade's mother is I have no regrets," she said in the interview. "And on my final day, whenever that is, I hope it's a long way away, I hope to be able to say with respect to these children that I have no regrets."

Asked about her own haircut habits considering the uproar over her husband's $400 haircut, Elizabeth Edwards said that after going through chemotherapy, she was more focused on letting her hair grow than cutting it. She said she gets her hair colored and trimmed at a small salon in Chapel Hill, N.C.

"I'm not big on haircuts," she said. "Sometimes I do that root touchup thing that you buy. Those cost $5.49 at Target."