Know Your Meme: A SOPA/PIPA PSA

Internet scientists Forest and Kristina explain how the legislation of Protect IP Act & Stop Online Piracy Act can affect the community of Know Your Meme and what you can do to keep the Internet open and free.

[Frospin]

I love you guys. I didn't expect this video, Is awesome!

[Mrmannyguy]

Yes!! Great video. The more people get informed the better

[DFerociousBeast]

Newgrounds was also blacked out, older than any of those site

[legoarmydude]

My parents were young during the civil rights protests, and told me stories about it. I am young now, and will tell my children stories about the SOPA/PIPA protests, and if those acts pass, I'll tell them that there used to be a wonderful thing called the Internet....

[CalumPMSmith]

The best thing to come out of the new KYM crew so far.

[EchoPierce]

I see a scout, not a troll. But together, we would be an UNSTOPPABLE FORCE!

[MegaBluecrest]

love how this was updated on the day of the blackout

[EchoPierce]

Satisfactory does not cut it. What about Rainbow Troll? >=3

[ZeekyInc]

Wait, how could 2 people dislike this?

Apparently they'll be fine when every single thing on the Internet is censored.

[MiltonBendukidze]

and that's one of the reasons why I'm with KNOW YOUR MEME :)

[ThePredecessor]

Thank you, brother. The support will help. Still can't believe all these comments...

[TenshizakiN]

As a player of WoW, a watcher of youtube vids, and someone who cannot live without memebase, I stand with the internet. BECAUSE NO ONE LOVES ME LIKE IT DOES. /foreveralone

[ThePredecessor]

Good work, soldier. Our spies are infiltrating their base as we speak. Now I must gather the animes.

[TheMegaJet]

SOPA gives power to people that nobody should have over the only thing we have we can consider as our true freedom, the internet. To blacklist content, to pretend like it isn't there, is the sort of behaviour I could expect from the Chinese government, but this can't be applied on a worldwide scale. If either are passed, the internet is doomed to the likes of what happened to TV, history will repeat itself, We either fight back for once, or move on once again, let's stand for something today.

[SpanishBroomaker]

Finally @KnowYourMeme makes a pertinent video.

[turokrd]

The internet will never die, nor will piracy

[NET]

okay, i live in canada, could sopa and/or pipa affect me the same way it may effect american internet users? if it does, how would i go about having my voice herd?

[theKillerbee]

how can someone dislike this?... I just can't... ugh

[DrkChckn]

@306Bloodline It will affect everyone. If you're on a US-based website such as Facebook or Youtube, you too will be screened as they described, because SOPA and PIPA are indifferent to where the user is from, but attacking where the site is based.

[Wheeneshx]

As well as MSPAINTadventures being protesting. WAY TO GO, HUSSIE!