"PROTECT IP / SOPA Breaks The Internet": A Video Explanation
A whole lot of activity has been abuzz on the net the past couple of days (so much so even the Nation's newspapers talked about it today), most of which concerns a blackout from folks like Google, Wikipedia and even Flickr - taking up arms against two pieces of pending U.S. anti-piracy legislation: SOPA (The Stop Online Piracy Act) and PIPA (The Protect IP Act) - which encroaches into the freedom of the internet. As much as it has flown past my head, the video above shows you what might happen.
I do not want to be censored (even tho I might be based in Singapore), and sure as heck loads of others do not want to as well. But the irony is, there are people themselves doing more harm than they are good in some quarters online, and there seems no way to stop them. Will these bill do the job, and leave the good citizens alone with their choice? Or will we eventually regress back to the days of land-lines, snail-mail and public libraries?
Video by www.fightforthefuture.org/pipa.
