“There’s a disturbing bill making the rounds on Capitol Hill right now called the Stop Online Piracy Act, or SOPA. It’s purportedly designed to thwart music and movie piracy by empowering copyright holders to isolate and shut down websites or online services found with infringing content.”
So, I’m sure Facebook has at least one picture that whose copyrights aren’t properly addressed, and if this bill passes, the website can be shut down by the government. Myspace, gone. A Google search comes up with a single picture of someone’s vacation with ANY name or logo in the background, gone. Youtube has at least one video with a song in the backgound, gone. Got a blog with your car in it, or a picture of you holding a coke can, not anymore. Never, ever, give government the power of judge, jury and executioner. We have court systems for a reason.
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