Starting at 8:00 am Eastern tomorrow, Mozilla will join with other sites in a virtual strike to protest the Protect IP Act (PIPA) and Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA). These bills protect content at all costs, creating the opportunity for abuse and damaging the Web for all of us.
We will be blacking out the default start page in Firefox and redirecting key Mozilla websites to a special action page. Both steps are aimed at informing and mobilizing millions of our users on this important issue.
Mozilla’s Chairwoman Mitchell Baker has a blog post that further explains our concerns with the legislation, using a powerful analogy from the physical world to highlight how misdirected PIPA and SOPA are at this point.
These steps are complimentary to those participants in tomorrow’s online protest who are focusing on taking websites offline. We’re giving this degree of in-product visibility on PIPA/SOPA with the hope that this precedent-setting move will motivate people to ask their Congressional representatives to carefully consider all the facts and viewpoints before moving either of these bills forward.
This campaign will not effect people’s experience with Firefox, however, we hope it raises awareness and engagement. We’ll return people’s default start page and stop redirecting traffic at 8:00 pm Eastern tomorrow.
Mozilla Timeline on SOPA/PIPA
From the beginning, Mozilla has been a key force in rallying opposition to PIPA and SOPA. On Nov 16, as part of the American Censorship campaign, Mozilla censored its logo and used the power of our start page in Firefox to engage our community. The results were awesome, generating thousands of emails and calls to Congress, and helped change the tenor of the public debate in the House.
November 2011
- General Counsel Harvey Anderson’s first warning to Mozilla community of the pitfalls of the proposed legislation
- Mozilla hosts planning meeting for Silicon Valley companies, startups, academics and NGOs to discuss response to SOPA/PIPA
- Mozilla censors its logo and directs web site traffic and Firefox users to take action in the House on SOPA, raising awareness on the bills with hundreds of millions of our users
- Mozilla releases a joint letter with Google, Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Zynga, AOL and Yahoo!
- Mozillians attend SOPA hearing in DC and visit offices in the House to voice our concerns with the bill
- Mozilla leaders meet with numerous House and Senate members and their staff to explain our concerns about the bills
December 2011
- Mozilla Chairwoman Mitchell Baker co-authors an open letter to Washington with 16 other Internet leaders and founders
- Mozilla CEO Gary Kovacs goes to the White House to discuss SOPA/PIPA with Obama Administration
- Mozillians continue meeting with House and Senate members and their staff to explain impacts to openness, free expression and security
January 2012
- Mozilla joins with other sites in a virtual strike to protest the Protect IP Act (PIPA) and Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA)
- Chairwoman Mitchell Baker blogs about Mozilla’s stance on PIPA/SOPA
- Mozilla CEO, Gary Kovacs blogs about PIPA/SOPA
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