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SOPA may be returning in a much sneakier, worse fashion
Two years ago, major websites such as Wikipedia and Reddit blacked out their services as a form of digital protest against SOPA, the infamous Stop Online Piracy Act that leveraged law enforcement to prevent copyright infringement. While preventing piracy isn’t exactly an ignoble gesture, SOPA would have more or less given copyright holders exhaustive power over anything that arguably infringes on those rights...
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It's going to keep coming back. That's what is incredibly frustrating with this. I think it can be defeated again, but the issue has to be forced into social media network just like before. When you have big sites protesting and informing typical users, then people become educated, scared, and angry. Unfortunately, most of us have ADD. So once this new SOPA disappears, it'll be back to focusing on selfies at the Oscars, Justin Bieber, and whatever reality TV star of the week. These are the type of stories we need to remember, especially when going out on election day.