Google today:
Many websites today are engaging in an awareness campaign about two pieces of pending U.S. anti-piracy legislation -- SOPA (The Stop Online Piracy Act) and PIPA (The Protect IP Act). The problem with these acts is that if this legislation passes, the primary requirement on the World Wide Web will be censorship-compliance.
Read more here.
See Daily Kos, too.
PS: Read Glenn Greenwald, too, the corruption of America's political class is on clear display.
PPS: Just how bad SOPA is:
Many websites today are engaging in an awareness campaign about two pieces of pending U.S. anti-piracy legislation -- SOPA (The Stop Online Piracy Act) and PIPA (The Protect IP Act). The problem with these acts is that if this legislation passes, the primary requirement on the World Wide Web will be censorship-compliance.
Read more here.
See Daily Kos, too.
PS: Read Glenn Greenwald, too, the corruption of America's political class is on clear display.
PPS: Just how bad SOPA is:
The provision in question would force search engines, advertisers, banking and financial firms and even Internet service providers to de-list websites accused - not proven, but simply accused - of copyright infringement. The provision even includes language that would allow the Justice Department to force ISPs to falsify DNS records so as to prevent users from being able to even locate a suspect site. That's bad... particularly for Internet users who are completely uninitiated. But for the rest of us who aren't members of Congress, two brilliant Firefox add-ons provide ingenious workarounds.
