If you are a U.S. citizen, this is important.
Explainer: understanding Sopa
Will 2012 see the end of the internet as we know it? The House Judiciary
committee tried to finalize the Stop Online Piracy Act (Sopa) before
Christmas for a vote early next year. But fierce opposition – much of it
I'd love to see us roll out our own internet via mesh networks, phones,
wifi community networks and all the rest.
It could be done. Its how it started .. DEC, PARC, and others had their
own protocols built on top of physical layer nets, mainly ethernet. Intel
got involved and the three of them
Nanci Paloski(sp) has stated that in essence SOPA is to heavy handed.
Google has argude with mixed luck that the DMCA and Copyright law is
sufficient for what SOPA wants to achieve.(See NY times articles).
What bugs me about it-IF it passes google could get a court order
because someone searched
