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Do you ever wonder if the internet was censored? Famous stars and company’s on the internet could possibly be gone in a flash. People such as Seananners, FPS Russia and Machinima.com would all be affected by this problem called SOPA and PIPA. They are two government bills that were made to stop online piracy but were written so badly that it would cripple the entire internet. We need to make sure that this bills are permanently gone and do not come back in the future.

These bills stand to try to take out the threat of online piracy and have their own meaning. As said SOPA and PIPA were two bills passed around in congress and the main idea around them were to fight and stop online piracy. SOPA which stands for Stop Online Piracy Act and PIPA Protect IP Act, would cripple the internet and take down many popular sites such as Tumblr, YouTube, Reddit and other popular sites. While these bills have a good cause and are trying to stop an illegal act it was so blandly written that you could say it would “cripple” the internet.



While this was going on many people online were signing Petitions and doing something to stop these bills. On Google more than 7 million people signed a petition to get rid of SOPA. More than 3 million tweets were sent out on twitter about SOPA and PIPA in the same week. Some sites went dark to protest against these bills, such as Google, Reddit, Wikipedia, Flickr and Tubmlr all raised awareness about these bills and the problems they would bring. This is acording to marketingland.com. Some solutions I have are to start a protest if another bill like this every pops up again, with numbers come power. Sign a petition; this is a great way to get a cause noticed by people especially if you get a lot of people to sign it. Go on the internet sir up a conversation. Hundreds of people will read it and if it’s a good topic people will get involved.

Overall millions of people know about these bills and many of them are against them and want to change how these bills are stated now. PIPA is not currently a bill anymore and SOPA is currently “Shelved” But we can see a remake of it in the future. People may see a recreation of this bill which no body wants to see however it may be taken down as quick as the SOPA, PIPA bills.