Dear world,
Let’s see if I get this straight. A bill is being ‘debated’ in congress to (basically) prevent sharing of all information, videos, audio, photos and more of all sorts. That’s the basic understanding, legal or illegal, it has to stop ( so says the bill).
Or at least that’s my understanding.
So here’s my issue with this. The internet was first invented to help in the war. If I am not wrong, Russia first created it to communicate military tactics across large distances in the shortest time possible. With its growth, the internet gets everyone involved in some way or another, through video sharing, photo sharing or blogging and etc. Now, if we remove the basic, fundamental and the very first function the internet was created for (i.e sharing), you’ve lost the internet. And this bill does not apply to American Citizens.
If you removing sharing, you’ve stopped globalization (sounds iffy but stay with me here). Globalization is the term to describe the world getting -figuratively speaking- smaller. I know what people in America are up to, I know how people in Italy are and not just in terms of news. I see how some people are doing, I follow some personal blogs. I refuse to stay in the bubble I was in before I started blogging and reading around and I am pretty sure the rest of the world refuses to take 10 steps back into the past.
This does not affect America. The internet, is universal. To quote the movie ‘the social network’, “they don’t have roads but they have Facebook” and that is how powerful the internet is. It is a global network, and if one area goes down, others will start shutting down too and there goes the most effective method we had at connecting the world.
I’m against it and since I’m not American, I hope everyone who is American is against it to.
Cheyenne
Sources: http://www.ted.com/talks/defend_our_freedom_to_share_or_why_sopa_is_a_bad_idea.html
