Many websites that include: Wikipedia, Reddit, and
Google and many more decided to shut down their website for 24 hours in protest
of the Anti-Privacy Bill on January 18, 2012. The Anti-Privacy Bill states that
there should be a certain amount of censorship in the Internet. The conformity
of the numerous websites that participated in the protest shows that they strongly
believe the Bill should not pass. Furthermore, many different websites tried to
get the message across and make people take actions to stop online privacy act;
for example, Reddit asked their users, " please take today as a day of focus
and action." The shutdown showed
how many people often rely on the Internet for daily information and were stressed over it when certain websites decided to shut down for 24 hours. I
think that if the bill pass it would violates Freedom of Speech. If the
bill pass many people would see their website disappear and would be consider a crime
for putting photos or posting a video (source, http://act2.freepress.net/sign/sopa_letter/).
If
the online privacy act pass many website will have to pay or will be force shut
down and it also affects many people who use the Internet. Are we in danger of losing free knowledge?
By: Heather Orellana
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