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1. The SOPA/PIPA act will block internet rights and freedoms by having the government censoring the internet similar to how its currently in China.  

 

2. Internet companies would monitor users activities online including what you post on social media, videos, pictures, links to websites etc. "That’s why AOL, eBay, Facebook, Google, IAC, LinkedIn, Mozilla, Twitter, Yahoo, and Zynga wrote a letter to Congress saying these bills “pose a serious risk to our industry’s continued track record of innovation and job-creation.”  (Google 2012 https://www.google.com/landing/takeaction/sopa-pipa/) 

3. It WON'T stop piracy. These censorship regulations won't shut down "pirate" sites, they will just pick up and move the site to another server and start over (most websites have back up servers and information loaded on a drive online to allow the site to instantly re-publish within minutes). These websites should not be a issue of the US government we can not control these site as most of them are domestic. If they believe this is a huge concern they need to take into factor of the OPEN act. It is was rumored that during the black out last Wednesday file sharing site; Megaupload was temporary shut down in protest of this law. Other sites like Google "blacked out" for 24 hours in protest. 

** Information was summarized from Google 2012  https://www.google.com/landing/takeaction/sopa-pipa/**

This would in my option, be wrong and illegal since it's pretty much violating our first amendment right of "Freedom of Speech". I don't see how they government feel that internet censorship is it "top priority" when there are so many other issues that are more important issues. President Obama already stated that he'd veto the bill and congress was in deadlock last week and due to the protesting we helped change/influence those officials who we're either against or undecided. They vote on it actually today 1/24/12.
 67 top sites against the SOPA/PIPA among the growing list added: (Google 2012 https://www.google.com/landing/takeaction/community/)

 

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