The two pieces of information necessary for you to understand what SOPA (Stop Online Piracy Act) / PIPA (Protect IP Act) are all about and how they are going to destroy our personal liberties:
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PROTECT IP / SOPA Breaks The Internet from Fight for the Future on Vimeo.
PROTECT IP / SOPA Breaks The Internet from Fight for the Future on Vimeo.
"We oppose these bills because there are smart, targeted ways to shut down foreign rogue websites without asking American companies to censor the Internet," a Google spokesperson said Tuesday.
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INFOGRAPHIC: Everything You Need to Know About SOPA
http://www.wealthwire.com/news/liberty/2539?r=1
Final Step to Fascism? National Defense Authorization Act Passes
The key takeaway from this kafkaesque law is not its specific provisions or complete decimation of civil liberties, but the fact that this war was never declared on a nation or tangible enemy. It is a war against an abstract idea, therefore there is no enemy to step down and no chance for this war to end. So strap in because this seems to be just the beginning.
http://www.wealthwire.com/news/liberty/2382
