SOPA Represents a Slap in the Face of Freedom

It appears that the debates for the much controversial bill, the Stop Online Piracy Act or SOPA, has been delayed, at least until early 2012. Of course, there can be any number of reasons why this wretched and irresponsible bill that would signify the end of the Internet as well know it has been stopped, but two reasons why further talk of the SOPA bill has been delayed until the near year.

Reasons Why SOPA bill has been delayed.

Censorship under any form is never good and is only used as a tool by tyrants to keep their power in check. Don’t be fooled by the so called noble claims of Internet piracy being taken down, it is just another move by the entertainment industry, the Hollywood bigwigs who feel threatened by the Internet. They feel that they can put out substandard entertainment and get away with it, for no question whatsoever. They tried to kill the VCR to little success and now they are going after the Internet, because they can’t be bothered to move forward into a new age, to completely embrace it.

The United States Government has joined up with Hollywood, because the US Government has an ax to grind with the Internet as well. It is the one media distribution that they cannot challenge. Therefore, they are trying to slowly restrict the Internet, under the noble mask of stamping out illegal piracy. By shutting down websites due to online piracy, you fly right down the slippery slope, where if someone doesn’t like a comment that was made, they cry piracy and the host servers of the website comply without reason. It is up to the user to prove differently and it leads to a long legal battle, that Joe Average American cannot afford.

Yet talks of SOPA have died down, and we must wonder why. There are a couple of different reasons why that might be. For one and let us hope so, that this ill fated bill is slowly dying the death that it deserves. As more people are catching on what certain parties in the American government are really doing, there are going to be more opposition, and that’s including from some very big names around the Internet.

Another reason is they are hoping to delay things, to later sneak SOPA through. Well, newsflash, that’s not going to happen any time soon. We will fight for our right to use the Internet freely. If this bill and its distant cousin Protect-IP passes, we will go down a slippery slope where we are no better than the countries we detest for their censorship.

What freedom have we fought for? To me, these bills represent terrorism of a different flavor and a slap in the face for the Armed Forces of the United States who have fought to protect this country. Is all of the talk of freedom by the United States government leaders just lip service to make us look better? There have been many questionable actions over the years by this government but this could drive the last nail in the coffin of our credibility as we talk about freedom.

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