The Pros and Cons

The pros and cons of sopa weigh each other out however most people only know sopa for being the killer of free speech its supposed to be the killer of online piracy. The pros of sopa are actually something that would make the online world a great place and it would make the people who work hard on their music and movies make the money they deserve. Then there is the cons of sopa the Godzilla of the internet. Wikipedia even said this on their website after they blacked out to protest it "Imagine a World Without Free Knowledge For over a decade, we have spent millions of hours building the largest encyclopedia in human history. Right now, the U.S. Congress is considering legislation that could fatally damage the free and open Internet. For 24 hours, to raise awareness, we are blacking out Wikipedia. Learn more." But then they explained why this would be a great con of sopa "Why? SOPA and PIPA would put the burden on website owners to police user-contributed material and call for the unnecessary blocking of entire sites. Small sites won't have sufficient resources to defend themselves. Big media companies may seek to cut off funding sources for their foreign competitors, even if copyright isn't being infringed. Foreign sites will be blacklisted, which means they won't show up in major search engines. SOPA and PIPA would build a framework for future restrictions and suppression.In a world in which politicians regulate the Internet based on the influence of big money, Wikipedia — and sites like it — cannot survive." this is the biggest problem everyone has with sopa and what makes it such a controversial topic they could use their power (granted by the government) for good or evil. Even google had their famous logo censored in protest.(CNN WIRE STAFF) Can you imagine a world without google, How about without Facebook and twitter because they could be taken down in this crossfire also mark walburg said in a conference that Facebook to would also black out in protest this however is a rum. Even website like dixi sun are saying "the pros don't outweigh the cons" So leaving you with the Question is sopa more of a pro or con

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The recent history of SOPA and PIPA

SOPA the Stop online piracy act while claiming to only censor the pirated movies music and games the law was written very loosely and could be used by the government to censor anything on the internet. This is what SOPA is and what it can do. This clearly would interfere with free speech. Without question, our nation’s Founding Fathers never imagined something like the Internet, but whether it was freedom of the press or freedom of assembly they saw government as protecting the American people against things like SOPA and PIPA not the government being the one to cause the censorship. As you can see our freedom of speech once protected by the constitution could be abolished by this law or as they see it could stop online piracy. Ether way you put it do you really want the government this much in control in essence this post could be destroyed by SOPA as soon as it is passed.