SOPA is an anti-piracy bill sweeping through Congress as we speak. It stands to severely alter the way information is freely exchanged online. It will have an effect on every single person who uses the internet for a number of reasons, and it honestly makes ZERO sense from a user’s standpoint. Please educate yourself through the links below, and sign the petition on Google to stop this non-sense.
Here are some excerpts from articles to give you a jist of the SOPA bill.
“In other words: if your status update links to The Pirate Bay, Facebook would be legally obligated to remove it. Ditto tweets, YouTube videos, Tumblr or WordPress posts, or sites indexed by Google. And if Google, Twitter, WordPress, Facebook, etc. let it stand? They face a government “enjoinment.” They could and would be shut down.
The resources it would take to self-police are monumental for established companies, and unattainable for start-ups. SOPA would censor every online social outlet you have, and prevent new ones from emerging.” – via Gizmodo.com
“SOPA is, objectively, an unfeasible trainwreck of a bill, one that willfully misunderstands the nature of the internet and portends huge financial and cultural losses. The White House has come out strongly against it. As have hundreds of venture capitalists and dozens of the men and women who helped build the internet in the first place. In spite of all this, it remains popular in the House of Representatives.”
“Yet the language in SOPA is so irrational that I can only assume that the authors and backers wanted nothing more than to fundamentally change the rules of the web: To shut down the open post fields, kill reposting (goodbye, Tumblr), end shared videos (sorry, YouTube), expand the definition of what it means to infringe (sorry, Twitter, no sharing links that aren’t yours).” – via Mashable.com
Click here to visit a popular blog site and how it would appear if these bills were to pass - http://theoatmeal.com/
