Thursday, January 19, 2012

#SOPA PEOPLE PROTEST AGAINST DIGITAL CONTENT CENSORSHIP

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PEOPLE PROTEST AGAINST DIGITAL CONTENT CENSORSHIP

Wednesday, January 18, 2012 by 
Bryce Kervin
All across the internet today websites are taking a stand against censorship. Resources suchwiki asWikipediaGoogle,  Reddit.com, and Craigslist are all blacking out  content in protest against the SOPA and PIPA  acts. Washington, DC has already begun to buckle this week towards the public outcry, but that hasn’t stopped a whole lot of people from making a voice for themselves today.

If these acts are pushed through, millions of pages of content would be blocked across the web including Tumblr, Wikipedia, blogger, and any foreign site that is not acting in ordinance with the US piracy laws will be blocked from Google. Digitally, these changes would be unavoidable and would affect those in the landscape of online marketing, sales, and overall the user experience on the web as we know it today.
In the end, would these SOPA and PIPA acts really help anyone?  Who wins?


craigslist blackout

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