SOPA

I am not going to pretend that I am a legal expert, but I understood the implications of the enactment of the American Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA). The way I see it, is a version of the American Patriot Act, suppressing flow of internet information in the case of SOPA - and its sister act, the Protect IP Act (PIPA), in the name of piracy - sort of like subjecting you to all this check points at airport in the name of stopping Terrorism.

Those wanting to abuse the internet would find a way to do it as the legislator would always be a couple of steps behind these perpetrator no matter how clever these legislators think they are, and at the end of the day, the general Internet Users would be the one paying the price, akin to us honest travelers getting searched at airports etc. You catch my drift.

It may not directly effect us at the end of the day, but the implications are going to be visible. The USA is certainly not in a great spot at the moment with the recent enactment of the NDAA by the Obama Administration - go and Google it yourself - but hang on - you may not be able too do so as the Internet would be censored.

Internet organizations had been doing a lot in waking up the public of these issues, and sites such as Flickr and Wikipedia were at the forefront. They have both blacked out their webpage for 24 hours while the American Congressmen vote on the Act.