SOPA is an acronym for the Stop Online Piracy Act.
It's a law/rule that tries to get rid of all copyright
infringement by not letting people be able to get to sites that host or
facilitate the trading of pirated content. Rep Lamar Smith is the one behind SOPA.
Most sites you visit regular; YouTube, Craigslist,
Wikipedia, etc. are against SOPA. SOPA gives the government all power of what
we search, learn, see, and talk about online. The government gets the power to
edit anything they want to online. They get to police anything they want
online. The SOPA tries to shut down all freedom of social media. For further
reading:
“The PROTECT IP Act (Preventing Real Online Threats to
Economic Creativity and Theft of Intellectual Property Act, or PIPA) is a
proposed law with the stated goal of giving the US government and copyright
holders additional tools to curb access to "rogue websites dedicated to
the sale of infringing or counterfeit goods", especially those registered outside
the U.S. The bill was introduced on May 12, 2011, by Senator Patrick Leahy
(D-VT) and 11 bipartisan co-sponsors.”
http://thecolbertreport.cc.com/videos/orzoc4/sopa---pipa
