Posts Tagged by House of Reprsentatives
SOPA and PROTECT IP
| December 23, 2011 | Posted by Elliot Davies under international, technology |
Imagine a world in which a government has the power to cut off access to foreign websites with a snap of its fingers. Imagine a world where a private company can use the country’s warped legal system to blockade a website’s finances without due process or any chance for objection. Imagine a world where the internet, envisioned as a free and global communications network, lies broken because politics, greed and naivety came first. Sound like a dystopia? Perhaps it sounds like an extended version of modern day China, Iran or Malaysia. It might come as a surprise, then, to hear that the Congress of the United States of America is considering legislation which would allow all of the above – and it’s… more
