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2.nd term
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2 half-comments on SOPA & PIPA------
recovery from 1st. term's evaluation [0-12]: correction of mistakes in Mónica's and Tiago's posts (1+2)
18/1/2012
SOPA and PIPA
*Breaking News ... The U.S. are continuing their conquest of the world through the power and total control. Guess what they did now! The American Government is trying to ruin the internet by considering create a legislation that could fatally damage the free and open internet. According to the congress they only want to "save the world" by shutting down, for example, Wikipedia the biggest source of info on the internet... Now... Save the world or just get a easy way to control us? I have my doubts about their good intentions.
SOPA and PIPA represent two bills in the United States House of Representatives and the United States Senate respectively. SOPA is short for the "Stop Online Piracy Act," and PIPA is an acronym for the "Protect IP Act." ("IP" stands for "intellectual property.") In short, these bills are efforts to stop copyright infringement committed by foreign web sites, but, in my and Wikipedia's opinion, they do so in a way that actually infringes free expression while harming the Internet.
I think it’s pretty clear what they want. Protecting copyrights and fighting piracy are one thing, but these acts take it way too far. If these pass, you are completely forgetting about that whole “by the people, for the people” thing in the Constitution.
Websites such as Wikipedia and Google have included a blackout to their page to join the protest against SOPA/PIPA. I will leave you some links here so you can see by yourself: https://www.google.com/landing/takeaction/ and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
A lot of people dont believe in the whole “new world order” thing. But if you open your eyes and look it's all happening right in front of our faces. No one knows what's gonna happen in 2012 but I can assure you if we continue to be ignorant as to what's going on, it's gonna be BAD. So EVERYONE needs to educate themselves. Do your research and prepare yourself.
I apologize for the long text but I needed to express myself about this whole madness going on and since we're talking about democracy and U.S. power over the world I thought this would be appropriated.
posted here by AL (unchecked version)
posted here by AL (unchecked version)
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