QUEERTY:

Gay military airman Randy Phillips went viral when he recorded himself tearfully telling his mom and dad he was gay (post-DADT) and posted it on YouTube. We even named him one of our 8 notable coming-out stories of 2011 for his heartstrings-tugging contribution.

The cute military man has wiped his eyes and is now combatting America’s obesity problem with instructional exercise videos. Love handles begone!

PROTECT IP / SOPA Breaks The Internet from Fight for the Future on Vimeo.

Wow… this would be fucking scary… watch this film (and if you are American)…

Tell Congress not to censor the internet NOW! – fightforthefuture.org/pipa

PROTECT-IP is a bill that has been introduced in the Senate and the House and is moving quickly through Congress. It gives the government and corporations the ability to censor the net, in the name of protecting “creativity”. The law would let the government or corporations censor entire sites– they just have to convince a judge that the site is “dedicated to copyright infringement.”

The government has already wrongly shut down sites without any recourse to the site owner. Under this bill, sharing a video with anything copyrighted in it, or what sites like Youtube and Twitter do, would be considered illegal behavior according to this bill.

According to the Congressional Budget Office, this bill would cost us $47 million tax dollars a year — that’s for a fix that won’t work, disrupts the internet, stifles innovation, shuts out diverse voices, and censors the internet. This bill is bad for creativity and does not protect your rights.