All this talk about SOPA being a bad thing. The acronym is for Stop Online Piracy Act. The headline says it all, right? SOPA might even make us all better at this social media thing.
We wouldn’t waste our time watching remixes and animated gifs, and we wouldn’t get any new ideas from those things we see.
Probably because we’d be scared if we did. And because the creative minds behind the ideas would be in jail. Fahrenheit 451 anyone?
Facebook and YouTube would probably be shut down. We wouldn’t have to worry what to write on our blog anymore. And lawyers on earth strike me down (and they will) if I ever use a Disney example to punctuate a point or a metaphor from most other media or corporate entity.
We wouldn’t have to think about following someone we don’t know from other lands, because who knows what they’ve pointed to. No more “global economy” or “flat classroom”. Let’s re-open the factories and stand in line to go back to work (and get fed).
And the “pirates” this thing is supposed to stop? They would flourish. Putting bars on a window almost guarantees it gets hit. Always checking your wallet in your pocket makes sure you get picked. Stopping Piracy by breaking the Internet will handcuff everyone … but the pirates.
Would we have iTunes if not for Napster? Would Hulu or Netflix be streaming if not for the pirates showing what the public desired? I’m not saying piracy is good, it’s not. It’s stealing. But we do get some ideas from their action.
This bill should not, cannot simply be delayed. It must be destroyed. Rather, keep the web open. A global economy is at stake.
Related articles
- SOPA And PIPA May Cripple The Web Video Ecosystem, Unless We Fight It (reelseo.com)
- Tim O’Reilly: Why I’m fighting SOPA (gigaom.com)
- Everything Marketers Need to Know About SOPA (hubspot.com)
- Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) in Plain English (thetechscoop.net)
- We Need to Talk about Piracy (But We Must Stop SOPA First) (blogher.com)
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