New SOPA Bill... fair or unfair?

Many people have been tweeting, writing, and reporting about the so called SOPA (Stop-Online-Piracy-Act.)  The act has not been passed yet, but there is talk that such a bill could come into effect.  The idea behind the bill would be to protect the entertainment industry from sites that steal their content.  In order to do this, however, the government would have the power to "block" a website, basically shutting it down and removing all ads from the site.  There would be a "blacklist" of sites that the Attorney General would feel are violating the act.  Although the intentions of this act are good and understandable, the way it would be done seems very intrusive and unfair.  In order to make this happen, there needs to be a better way of determining what is stolen and what is not, as opposed to giving those in power the right to choose at their own will.
-tt 11/16/11


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