I just spent a bit of effort and time to post this on Facebook but want to go ahead and share it with the internet via their search engine of choice. It’s easy and won’t take much time to email your Representative and Senator and voice your opposition to the Stop Online Piracy Act (“SOPA”). So here is a repost of my Facebook activity from earlier today:
Reject SOPA, the “Stop Online Piracy Act”. It’s a heavy handed attempt which gives the government wide powers to shut down websites and over-burden site owners. It will have wide and dramatic impact on the sites you visit day after day. …Just like most reactionary things Congress seems to do, this will have little to NO IMPACT against true criminals who are pirating movies and music. Visit this site to quickly find contact info for your Representatives and Senators. It will give you a quick message you can use to call or, as I choose to do, email them from their website.
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Go to the Electronic Frontier Foundation website and input your Zip Code. This will return your Representative’s name and phone/fax number. If you like talking on the phone, you’re almost done. But I like to email them.
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Open up a new browser tab and search for your representative’s names.
Bing actually gave me a few helper shortcuts to get right to the “Email” section of my representative’s website so I clicked right on that. Your mileage may vary.
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Fill out the forms required to show your constituency proof and then you’ll get the form where you can type your message. Go back to the EFF tab and you can copy the Subject line and Message body they provided.
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Go back to your tab with the Congressman’s Email Form and paste that into the respective fields.
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Hit Submit and you’re done! Thanks for your time.
If you’re reading this at work and it’s really quiet because it’s the last day of the year and there’s nothing going on – why not take a break from Facebook and YouTube and let your Congressmen and women know that you have an opinion and it matters.
Here are link links for my Texas visitors.
Thanks for reading.Sen. John Cornyn
