Posts Tagged ‘SOPA’

Stop Online Piracy Act Threatens Freedom of Speech

Thursday, December 8th, 2011

It may have slipped under your radar, due to the relative lack of press coverage, but there is a bill being debated in the US Senate at the moment that has massive repercussions for the way the Internet operates in the future, and consequently for free speech in general. The bill, backed by US giants Viacom, AOL, Nike, among many others, is called the Stop Online Piracy Act, or SOPA for short. (more…)

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