This post has been cross-posted from Henry Jenkins’ blog.
If you don’t have time to read this article in full, the easiest way to skim information about this topic is to visit http://americancensorship.org/.
In the past year, we’ve dealt with various novel political moments around the world that have been enabled or augmented with networked technology, from Anonymous’ global “hacktivist” incidents to the numerous protests in the Middle East, topped off of course with the vibrant grassroots protests of the Occupy movement. Over the last few months, we’ve also seen another interesting case study taking place in American politics: rampant opposition to the Stop Online Piracy Act, dubbed as “the most important bill in Congress you may have never heard of” by Chris Hayes of MSNBC.com.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/32545640
Watch Chris Hayes’ interview for a good introduction to the debate around SOPA.
SOPA, a bill currently making its way…
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