SOPA Opposition Grows
With Senate set to debate the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) legislation this month, Internet giants, including Google, Facebook, Twitter and Amazon, are rumored to be orchestrating a synchronized blackout as an act of protesting the bill.
SOPA is supported by many music and motion picture companies, as well as Burberry, 3M, Adidas, but has been gaining a strong opposition of late. Google, Amazon, Facebook, Twitter and Wikipedia are already considering what ZDNet is calling the ‘nuclear’ option, which is a simultaneous Internet blackout. They continue to say “[the nuclear option] is pretty drastic, but then so is SOPA. SOPA, while a proposed American law, attempts to censor sites throughout the world. In effect, as it’s currently written, SOPA would try to impose global censorship almost as bad as the Chinese firewall.”
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