Chances are that after today, even if you hadn’t heard of SOPA or PIPA before, you have now. The large-scale protest by some of the biggest websites on the net has made these American government bills impossible to ignore for people around the world, due to their global implications should they be voted into law by US congressmen and senators. As a Communication Major and employee of an online marketing company, it would be pretty easy to guess where I stand on the whole issue.
The Key Problem: Context
As someone who always tries to see both sides of a debate, I understand where people are coming from that support these bills. The internet is a medium through which it is more easy than ever before to facilitate theft of intellectual property such as music and movies, and it makes sense that a good way to prevent this kind of theft is to eliminate the people, (or in this case, websites,) that make the theft possible.
