Legislation that would have threatened the existence of an open and free internet was shelved this week in part to widespread “blackouts” at many popular internet sites.
For 24 hours users were unable to access Wikipedia, Google’s logo was blacked out on their homepage, reddit and BoingBoing blacked out their sites and gave messages for users on steps to take.
The pressure worked — for now.
The two bills have been shelved, but that doesn’t mean they won’t come back up again.
Ironically enough, immediately following the shelving of these bills, a controversial file sharing website — MegaUpload — was shut down on an international scale. Employees in New Zealand were arrested, assets seized, and the site shut down thanks to the US government coming after them. The fines for copyright infringement by the site are estimated to be in the hundreds of millions of dollars.
Makes you wonder if SOPA and PIPA were even necessary if the government is capable of taking this kind of unilateral action?
Instead of focusing on how to pay off a multi-million dollar fine, let’s focus on building our wealth to becoming millionaires. Here’s some interesting articles to help you get there:
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