Friday Session with Bishop - the fringe

STOP ACTA & TPP

Stop ACTA & TPP! - Never use trade agreements to mess with the Internet!

They tried to push internet censorship through Congress and we stopped them with our STOP SOPA/PIPA protests. But the companies behind SOPA & PIPA have a backup plan: secretive trade agreements like ACTA & TPP. If we can't stop these backroom deals, the internet's future belongs to SOPA's backers. DO EVERYTHING IN YOUR POWER TO SPREAD THE WORD, CALL YOUR REPRESENTATIVES, YELL FROM THE STREET CORNERS, ALL OF IT! You can start by using the form below to send a message. Get more detail from KILLACTA.org

I urge you to vote no on ACTA and to communicate its severe problems to your colleagues. ACTA's vague language locks us into obsolete copyright and patent laws, preventing democracies from updating their laws to unlock new economic and social opportunities.It criminalizes harmless remixes by ordinary users if they achieve 'a commercial scale' (art 2.14.1) which many amateur videos do on sites like Youtube. And it criminalizes legitimate websites by making them responsible for user behavior ('aiding and abetting' art 2.14.4).Worse, it permanently bypasses the democratic process by empowering the 'ACTA Committee' to 'propose amendments to [ACTA]' without your approval. (art 6.4) In other words, it's impossible to know what you're voting for.The global movement against the US law SOPA showed that internet freedom is a crucial issue which belongs in the legislative process of each country. You should view ACTA as an attempt by a handful of companies to circumvent the democratic process, and you should vote against it.Thank you. Please reply if you have any questions.

Friday Session with Bishop - the fringe

November 14, 2008

Greg Bishop got the luck of the draw today as he hosts the noon to 3 slot on 970 WMAY, the News and Talk of Springfield, streaming worldwide at WMAY dot com.

Be sure to vote for your favorite Bill artwork. View the artwork HERE

A topic to alienate many: Help me understand the sports craze. I appreciate we all need entertainment, and the teamwork it teaches children is fantastic but somebody needs to justify professional athletes' salaries to me. I just don't get it.

A list of the top 15 websites for the "Y" generation has been released by Outlaw Consultants. What are these sites, why are they the top 15 ... and who the hell is the "Y" generation anyways?

Have you seen this? A parody of the New York Times was handed out to commuters in Manhattan the other day. This news paper looks legit, but with closer inspection you see it is a hoax. The website linked above, and the newspaper were both the product of the Yes Men. What are they really trying to do here? See more Yes Men hijinks HERE.

The phone lines will be open for any subject, political or not, only on 970 WMAY, the News and Talk of Springfield at 217.629.7970 or email bishop@wmay.com

A special Friday Session with Bishop on 970 WMAY, the News and Talk of Springfield.