In numbers hell hath fury like a computer nerd scorned, activist a legislation that will severely censor the Web are waging a war with supporters of the Stop Online Piracy Act and their strength is quickly swelling. To American people, both Congress and the Internet have been lately with the Stop Online Piracy Act or SOPA, a bill which will allow the US government to erect a firewall across the Web and largely limit what websites are accessible to American people. By SOPA supporters, while the debates on Capitol Hill might be fitted boring and are largely sponsored by the millions of lobbying dollars sent. The Internet is offering a no-holds-barred battleground to make sure that the bill does not make it to legislation. SOPA are tackling the act, but taking it where they know best the World Wide Web.
With recent approval of the National Defense Authorization Act, hackers quickly dived deep into the Internet to begin prying out personal details from supporters of the law that allows the US government to indefinitely detain and torture Americans without charge, but while a blow to constitutional rights is one thing, taking away the Internet is a whole new can of worms. The lists are circulating around the Internet advertising the list of organizations supporting the SOPA legislation, allowing advocates for an open Internet who the bad guys are in the battle for free speech and online access. Activists against the act have unleashed largely on its supporters already as threats of SOPA being passed increasing day by day.
Encouraging online entrepreneurs to move their personal websites off of GoDaddy.com, the websites Reddit.com is helping organize a campaign to crush the code, the largest domain registrar on the Web who also happens to be a supporter of SOPA. The Internet guru that helped bring the I Can Has Cheeseburger meme to the mainstream, one person who has signed on for the down with GoDaddy campaign is Ben Huh. Ben Huh tweeted that he will move all 1,000 domains owned by his company. He also said that SOPA is a cancer to the free web. The GoDaddy seemed to think otherwise, however, and originally said that SOPA will only help0 the Web, they are grateful that the committee agrees that it’s time TO increase enforcement action because of US businesses are hurting and those of them in the Internet ecosystem are in a unique position to help.
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