Many sites are dark today in protest of the proposed SOPA and PIPA bills. Although they are supposedly designed to stop piracy, they would have the effect of making websites and hosts liable for copyrighted information placed on them, even by users. Many of the sites we use regularly, like Wikipedia, Google, and Facebook, would be liable to be taken down, or made unavailable, due to this faulty legislation.
Piracy is a problem (although I think it's nowhere near as much of a problem as we've been led to believe), but this legislation is not the way to control it.
Find out more about this bad legislation here.
And click here for a way to contact your legislators about these bills. I've called mine. Have you?
Thanks for the nudge. I just did.
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