I would not consider myself a techy person at all, and the
beginning of this article lost me a little bit. But if I understood correctly,
it sounds like some white house and house of representatives with little technological
knowledge are being reeled in by crazies to go against the constitution in an
internet war? The basis of this bill is ludicrous. I do not even understand how
this bill got any backing whatsoever if any person with minimal knowledge of
the Internet read it. It is clearly taking away privacy and property without
any real proof. Anyone can go, write a letter, and then five days later can
have an entire site (company) completely removed and out of business? This doesn’t
seem right at all. I am shocked that bigger companies haven’t jumped on this
anti SOPA train sooner considering their multi-million dollar companies could
easily be swept away. This article made it seem as though the bill will never
actually be passed, especially now that it is gaining more negative attention
however the fact that it was proposed and even considered in the first place
makes me uneasy. Representatives need to step up their game or else they will
lose all credibility from citizens.
I was very surprised you have not heard of SOPA before reading this article, but the fact that you picked up on what was going on so fast really goes to show how bad this proposal truly is. I don’t think there is much argument that this bill will be beneficial. Along with you, I was surprised that this bill even got supported to begin with, and I would agree that it’s ridiculous the bill even made it as far as it did. When SOPA was first proposed, I was happy to see that all my music stealing friends were already ripping the bill to pieces and there was little work left for me. It is almost a fact that another bill of equal senselessness will come into our lives within the near future, I just hope that the people voting on these bills don’t fall to the same level.
ReplyDeleteAvery, I completely agree with everything that you have to say about this SOPA bill. This is bill is just ridiculous. This bill would never pass even if there was not as much negative attention towards it. The fact that anyone could shut down any site just made me so confused. Why would anyone let that happen? SOPA is completely ludicrous. You understand that this bill should never and will never happen. If it did, one could only imagine the destruction it could cause on the internet. The internet is supposed to be a place of freedom, why ruin that?
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