If YouTube was to start today it would not make it because SOPA would allow companies to basically take down sites.

SOPA is wrong and should not be allowed to pass.

Google has a black box across its logo.
WikiPedia is showing a STOP SOPA landing page, you cannot get to any of the Wikipedia content.

Imagine a World
Without Free Knowledge

For over a decade, we have spent millions of hours building the largest encyclopedia in human history. Right now, the U.S. Congress is considering legislation that could fatally damage the free and open Internet. For 24 hours, to raise awareness, we are blacking out Wikipedia. Learn more.

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It appears that our politicians and government officials are again supporting legislation that they really don’t understand. As a matter of fact the author of the bill is barely aware of what the web is or using electronic devices are like a foreign language.

But you don’t see uproar over PIPA on the Interwebs nearly as much as SOPA. SOPA is on everyone’s lips, and that’s because Lamar Smith chose not only to ignore his constituents by filing the entertainment industry’s anti-Internet bill, but by championing it at every turn.

At least other politicians started listening to voters. But being a tone-deaf hypocrite is apparently much more fitting to Lamar Seeligson Smith, who is actually a copyright violator, himself.

US Congressman Lamar Smith is the guy who authored the Stop Online Piracy Act

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PS:  corporate paymasters, KEEP THOSE CLAMMY HANDS OFF THE INTERNET!