SOPA and Protect IP Will Kill The Internet As We Know It
Tuesday, December 27th, 2011The Stop Online Piracy Act is making it’s way through the House and it’s counterpart the Protect IP is going through the Senate here in America. Both these laws are aimed to stop online piracy of intellectual property. On the surface that doesn’t sound all that bad. It’s how the US government plans on going about is where the problem lies.
I’m not going to get into in details, heck if you search for SOPA you’ll get more than enough reading material from both sides, but if SOPA or Protect IP pass, the Internet as we know it will be no longer. Everyone’s heard of the Great Firewall of China, well if these become laws the United States will have it’s own “Great Firewall.” Now last time I checked China was a communist nation and the US was a “democracy.” I thought “democracies” don’t try and pass laws like SOPA and Protect IP.
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