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…trademark infringement is part of the bill as well — and that is an open invitation to corporate abuse of SOPA/PIPA to silence critics.

At Greenpeace, we’ve managed to put some judo moves on some mighty corporations by leveraging their own advertising budgets against them. Whether it’s spoofing VW’s most expensive superbowl ad of all time, jamming the Exxon logo, spreading the word about a spoof of the American Petroleum Institute’s support for the Keystone XL tarsands pipeline, creating a Kit-Kat ad that illustrates the rainforest destruction inherent in palm-oil production, or putting up a look-alike Apple.com website, we’ve rigorously exercised our right to free speech in freely speaking out against corporate abuse of the environment, and won many a campaign victory doing so.

We use their own language, their own marketing, their own strength against them — which is sometimes the only way that an entirely supporter-funded operation like ours can afford to put a spotlight on the negative side of their operations.

Thing is, while court case after court case has agreed with us that parody is a protected form of free speech, the corporations at the pointy end of our parodies tend to disagree.

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— Kumi Naidoo, Executive Director of Greenpeace Intl., on how SOPA/PIPA could be used to censor online activism. Read more in The Huffington Post.

Posted on Wednesday the 18th of January 2012 at 12:22 PM. Tagged with SOPA, PIPA, J18, Censorship, Online Activism, Freedom of Speech, Free Speech, Brand Jamming, subvertising, Greenpeace, activisim, .
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