Question of the Week: The Meaning of SOPA — Updated
Since a substantial chunk of the Internet is on strike today, we were wondering about your take on all this. The debate over SOPA — the Stop Online Privacy Act, as it is known in its House incarnation, or the Protect Intellectual Property Act in the Senate — had seemed kind of obscure and wonkish to me, having to do with illegal downloads of music or movies, Hollywood versus Silicon Valley, two industries at odds. OK fine, y’all work it out and let us know. Then Silicon Valley went nuclear, with Wikipedia, Reddit and hundreds of other sites prominent and obscure shutting themselves down for a day. That got people’s ...
19 January 2012•2 mins read
