Board Minutes January 2012: Difference between revisions
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=== | === Should we protest SOPA? === | ||
* | * SOPA and the Protect-IP acts are bills working their way through Congress in the United States. They are aimed at shutting down websites facilitating Copyright and Trademark infringement, yet fall outside US jurisdiction. The bills are controversial because it is believed that they will erode the DNS system, which resolves human-readable domain names into IP addresses. | ||
* [http://blog.reddit.com/2012/01/stopped-they-must-be-on-this-all.html reddit] has set January 18, 8am–8pm EST (1300–0100 UTC) as a day of action. | |||
* Does the board want to do a partial or complete black-out of Edmontonbikes.ca on that date? Should we encourage people to contact their Member of Parliament about this issue? | |||
=== New Business Item 2 === | === New Business Item 2 === | ||