Tomorrow the Internet will start to die.
It is under this title that this news today breeds on the Internet in various languages with great speed. The essence is as follows. Tomorrow, a bill called the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) will begin its way through the corridors of power in Washington. Together with another IP Protection Act, this law may allow the US Department of Justice to force providers to block users from accessing sites that are suspected of posting copyrighted information, or simply referring to such information.
Starting from SOPA almost any site, from YouTube to Wikipedia can be blamed.
For us, those who do not live in the United States, this will mean that most of the Internet will be controlled by the US government, since the largest Internet resources are hosted in the United States.
On the main pages of www.mozilla.org and www.reddit.com you can already see protests. Google, Facebook, Twitter and Wikimedia expressed their concern in an open letter to the US Congress. I managed to find only part of it in English, published on omgubuntu:
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... It was the law of the law. It’s a concern that the country’s government has been We cannot support these bills as written ...
The online service Avaaz created a petition that anyone can sign. Petition will be sent to the Senate before voting for this bill begins (towards the end of this month).
How to treat this, panic or ignore, a personal matter of each. The first thought that comes to mind is: “What is the problem? We take out the server from the USA and it's in the bag! ”. It seems to me that this is not an option. Here it is.
Starting from SOPA almost any site, from YouTube to Wikipedia can be blamed.
For us, those who do not live in the United States, this will mean that most of the Internet will be controlled by the US government, since the largest Internet resources are hosted in the United States.
On the main pages of www.mozilla.org and www.reddit.com you can already see protests. Google, Facebook, Twitter and Wikimedia expressed their concern in an open letter to the US Congress. I managed to find only part of it in English, published on omgubuntu:
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... It was the law of the law. It’s a concern that the country’s government has been We cannot support these bills as written ...
The online service Avaaz created a petition that anyone can sign. Petition will be sent to the Senate before voting for this bill begins (towards the end of this month).
How to treat this, panic or ignore, a personal matter of each. The first thought that comes to mind is: “What is the problem? We take out the server from the USA and it's in the bag! ”. It seems to me that this is not an option. Here it is.
Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/132858/
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