[ Thanks to An Anonymous Reader for
this link. ]
“SOPA and sister bill PIPA, in simple terms attempt to gear the
problem of foreign-based websites that sell pirated content by
stopping the U.S. companies from providing funding, advertising,
links or other assistance to theses foreign sites. The open-source
community is however apprehensive that the language of the bill is
so broad that it shall also adversely affect the U.S websites that
unknowingly host pirated content. Others claim that it is a sloppy
start to smash down the freedom of speech as eventually as U.S,
world powerful nation will have the right to censor and shutdown
websites without due process.“Internet is a completely un-biased and democratic technology
and has provided opportunity to every individual who uses it, to
express their thought with a freedom of expression. Under this
bill, the internet will fall pray in hands of a central power that
can, without any reason ban any website, even before genuine
investigation.”