SOPA Sucks!

SOPA, the 'Stop Online Piracy Act', is an Internet anti-piracy copyright bill that shuts down websites and blogs under the guise of copyright protection.

The global backlash against SOPA is huge, global, angry and incredibly loud as the firestorm of outrage grows by the minute.

The Internet blacklist legislation is known as the PROTECT IP Act (PIPA) in the Senate and the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) in the House.

Under SOPA, one tiny item on a blog or website that causes a SOPA complaint could get the entire website blocked by the government, denied search engine listing, cut off from income, shut down and erased from the Internet.

Even if celebrities or public figures, worried about their publicity, simply think a blog or site meets the SOPA criteria, they can send a notice to website payment processors like Visa, Mastercard or Paypal, starving a blogger or website owner into poverty.

God help the blogger who criticizes a public figure or the government.  Human rights watchdogs, religious bloggers, Tea Party forums, alternative news sites and user-generated content sites BEWARE.

Even if no court judge has yet found the blogger or site owner guilty of anything, the Internet police can Taser the entire website to the ground. 

Sure, the site owner can file a counter-notice --- within 5 days --- but payment processors and ad networks would not be obligated to honor it because SOPA would give them immunity.

Of course, there would never be bogus complaints filed because there are no dishonest people with evil intentions in the world, right?

Individuals or groups that have amassed power would never feel threatened by those who attempt to expose corruption online.  Never.

Kill This Bill Now.

SOPA sponsors want this bill rammed through ASAP, before the "little people" discover the censorship hell SOPA will cause.

The legislation has sparked outrage and backlash worldwide.

Thousands of blogs and websites like Wikipedia, Google, Reddit, Linked-In, Blogger, YouTube, Tumblr, Mozilla, Yahoo!, AOL, eBay, Zynga, Twitter and Facebook are screaming from cyberspace in opposition to SOPA.

The vague, broad and sweeping language in the SOPA bill ensures dictatorial 'interpretation' in the most arbitrary manner imaginable.

Read the SOPA bill for yourself.

Call, write, email and scream to your U.S. congressperson and your U.S senators.  Get the word out.  Share this article on your social media accounts and by email.  Don't stop screaming.  

The PROTECT IP Act (PIPA) and the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) just might end up killing the Internet as we know it.

SOPA SUCKS.