SOPA Vlog

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Keeping up with the SOPA and PIPA bills since they were voted down has given me a unique look at all angles regarding the bill. Since before the vote occurred, it seems the legislation wanted to slip these bills past the public. Minimal information about the bills were dispersed to the public, and when Google and Wikipedia got involved, the public awareness skyrocketed. So much to the fact that they (Google and Wikipedia) were the major proponents to squashing the bills.

Wikipedia and other anti-SOPA advocates felt that SOPA and PIPA infringed on man's online rights. They claimed that the first amendment was in jeopardy if these bills pass. The following and awareness raised by Wikipedia and Google is somewhat scary. Overnight, almost single-handedly, Wikipedia and Google were able to inform the public of their agenda, and the public followed.

Since the vote, articles and blurbs have emerged. These newer articles show that the music industry, the TV industry, and movie industry (the entertainment industry) are pro-PIPA and SOPA because they feel the bills protect their work. Sadly, for them, the bill was squashed and the public, I believe, will keep the bill down. Unless, of coarse, the United states turns into communist Russia. If that's the case, then...