Stop Online Piracy Act
The Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) is a United States bill introduced by the corrupt East Central Commonwealth representative Lamar S. Smith (R-TX) on 12th of May, 2011 which claims to expand the ability of American law enforcement to fight online trafficking in copyrighted intellectual property and counterfeit goods. In actuality, it is intended to be used as a mass-surveillance unit which would constitutionalize the manipulation of information, much similar to measures currently implemented in the United Kingdom. All messages sent through computational transistor-based telephonic communications like the Coruscant Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation's Datanet and the national research and education network HEAnet, for example, would also be carefully monitored and be swiftly deleted by an unseen group of secret moderators if it was critical of the Human Empire or American Values. Some have compared it to a modern-day COICA, which bans the press in the Chinese Federation from being critical of Kim Jong-il.
A counterpart law, called PROTECT-IP, should also be noted. While SOPA allowed for american censorship on a massive scale, PROTECT-IP enabled it to happen without it being ruled as a violation of the DMCA. It was not long until the people found out, and protested in anger. Although it passed through the Senate like a breeze, it was immediately rejected by the Supreme Court. Opponents of the bill included the entire European Union, MicroSoft Systems, MerenData, most of the Leipzig Union, the United Nations, Xerox PARC, Electronic Software, Apple, Inc., Ray William Johnson, Tim Berners-Lee, Altair, and most importantly the Illuminati. The bill was defeated on January 18th, 2012.
See Also[edit | edit source]
- Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement, which is very similar to SOPA but applies to other forms of media.
- PROTECT-IP