(SOPA) STOP ONLINE PRIVACY ACT Grant Diener Section 005

??What is SOPA??  Stop Online Privacy Act is a U.S. bill introduced to allow the government to have more power to shut down copyrighted and pirated content on countless websites.  The bill is suppose to protect “prosperity, creativity, entrepreneurship, and innovation by combating the theft of U.S. property.”  SOPA supporters believes the movie business and Hollywood are suffering due to the lack of controllable content on the internet.

People Protesting Against SOPA  People want to be able Over 19,000 people protested in to access anything they NYC in front of the senators want on the internet.office building.

THE WORLD WIDE WEB  The world wide web was founded for the sole purpose for anyone to look anything up online.  The internet is free and no restrictions  Once something is on the internet it is ‘open to public’  People can post/ upload anything they want  Freedom of Speech gives ‘We The People’ the right to speak and post our views

No More Google, Youtube, Reddit, Twitter and countless other websites. No More Youtube??  SOPA’s laws would make Youtube nonexistent  Google’s Director annouced that Youtube “would just go dark immediately if SOPA passed.”  immediately-if-sopa-passed/ immediately-if-sopa-passed/

Blackout Against SOPA  Major Websites decided to “Blackout” their website to show the U.S. what their website would look like if SOPA would be passed  For the Blackout websites would place black rectangles all over their website limiting what was viewable to the public.

Pictures of Blackouts

By The Numbers  Google's anti-censorship petition has been signed by 7 million people and obtained 13 million views that day.  7,000 sites across the net joined protest to “Blackout”  The Wikimedia Foundation says it reached 162 million people with Wikipedia's 24-hour English-language protest of the antipiracy bills  All of these protest actions eventually made 18 senators withdraw support for controversial bill.

SOPA Vetoed  Due to the effectiveness of the Blackout, the day after the blackout the Congressmen a majority of them switched and voted against SOPA, thus VETOING IT.

By The Number Website If you want to see more funny, interesting, and factual numbers of the protest against SOPA click the website below.

Audio From NYC Protest

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