The big business companies, and the hollywood american movie industry which have tried to use the internet as a platform of their business. Have now found out a new way of promoting internet censorship and shutting down websites which do not comply to the standards of their club.

By using the new bill which goes under the name of SOPA (‘stop online piracy act”), these rich big companies, and hollywood movie industry are trying to use the technique of “stop online piracy” (SOPA) as a weapon to shut down websites which are providing people with important information, and cheap products. 

Every information which gives the people their freedom of speech, free thinking and the ability of being able to choose the products they want buy, rather than buying the products that the main stream big companies have to offer. This type of information is a threat to the rich companies which have joined together to forge the new bill called SOPA (“stop online piracy act”)

What is SOPA?

The word SOPA stands for “Stop online piracy Act”, also known as House Bill 3261 or H.R. 3261, is bill that was introduced in the United states house of representative on October 26, 2011, by House Judiciary committee chair Representative Lamar House Lamar S. Smith (R-TX) and a bipartisan group of 12 initial co-sponsors.

The originally proposed bill would allow the U.S department of Justice, as well as copyright holders, to seek court orders against websites accused of enabling or facilitating copyright infringement. Depending on who makes the request, the court order could include barring online advertising networks and payment facilitators from doing business with the allegedly infringing website, barring search engines from linking to such sites, and requiring Internet Service provides to block access to such sites.

The bill would make unauthorized streaming of copyrighted content a crime, with a maximum penalty of five years in prison for ten such infringements within six months 

The bill, if made law, would expand the ability of U.S. law enforcement and copyright holders to fight online trafficking in copyrighted intellectual property and counterfeit goods.

This article was taken from www.ngabo.org/written by Ap-Ngabo, and the SOPA bill was taken from wikipedia website