How much do you know about SOPA? Here are some FAQs On SOPA and how it would affect you:
How would SOPA work?
It allows the U.S. attorney general to seek a court order against the targeted offshore Web site that would, in turn, be served on Internet providers in an effort to make the target virtually disappear. It’s kind of an Internet death penalty.
What will SOPA require Internet providers to do?
A little-noticed portion of the proposed law, goes further than Protect IP and could require Internet providers to monitor customers’ traffic and block Web sites suspected of copyright infringement.
Who’s opposed to SOPA?
Much of the Internet industry and a large percentage of Internet users.
On November 15, Google, Facebook, Twitter, Zynga, eBay, Mozilla, Yahoo, AOL, and LinkedIn wrote a letter to key members of the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives, saying SOPA poses “a serious risk to our industry’s continued track record of innovation and job creation, as well as to our nation’s cybersecurity.”
Learn more about SOPA and its implications at cnet.
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