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The Truth About SOPA

Wed, 01/25/2012 - 17:49 — Dave Culver
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A case for facts, statistics, and common sense. Let's be #OPEN about it.

Across the internet today (Jan 18), you'll see some of your favorite websites "blacked out" in protest of something called SOPA -- the Stop Online Piracy Act. However, don't be fooled by its seemingly straightforward title: SOPA is one of the greatest challenges to a free and open web that we've ever faced. Ultimately, it's a right step, but in the wrong direction. SOPA's original intention was to protect intellectual property created by American artists, yet the result is something much different: an unfair restriction on many American websites, like YouTube and Reddit, that we've come to love.

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