A few weeks ago, we asked for your help to defend freedom on the web by solving a puzzle.
You answered.
By completing our puzzle challenge, you lent your support to the Electronic Frontier Foundation and their fight against SOPA.
raised.
We are Gild, a startup based in San Francisco. We are coders like you, we believe in freedom and we love programming. Our mission is to help coders show off their skills and help them land great jobs at awesome companies. To do that we challenge our users with programming puzzles that are fun to solve. We believe this is a better way of showing off your skills compared to a boring interview.
We believe that the Internet should be a self-regulating organism, the "Stop Online Piracy Act"/"E-PARASITE Act" (SOPA) and "The PROTECT IP Act" (PIPA) are the latest in a series of bills which would create a procedure for creating (and censoring) a blacklist of websites. These acts would allow the Attorney General, and even individuals, to create a blacklist to censor sites when no court has found that they have infringed copyright or any other law.
Yes we could. But we would miss the most important part of this initiative: raise awareness about SOPA in the coders community. We believe that by challenging our peers with a simple and fun programming puzzle would give everybody a chance to be part of the fight by making good use of their skills. There are many ways we and you can contribute to the movement, this is just one of them.