SOPA and PIPA

O.K. so there is a lot of bias about PIPA and SOPA and in all honsty I can find a lot more on SOPA then I can on PIPA. But considering that they are both about stopping online piracy and flow along the same lines of text, they're almost twin bills, just one in the Senate (PIPA) and one in the House (SOPA). The two national bills are getting a lot of attetion due to the fact that because of their wording many argue that the bills, if passed, would effect the 1st ammendment right with concerns to the internet.



Cited Video: Tsuboi, Kara, http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_162-57360665-503544/sopa-pipa-what-you-need-to-know/, January 18, 2012

Summary of video: Mostly this short video is about the blackout of certain sites to raise the awarness of these bills. While some sites blacked out their content or put cencored bars over some of their content some other sites did not even though they were still in oposition to the proposed bills.

Assesment and Reflection of video: Was the video bias? Not really, but I do find it iteresting that CBS which owns cbsnews.com supports the bill.I did think the video reported on just the facts despite being owned by a parent company that supports the proposed bills.

Cited Article: Clayton, Mark, 'Would SOPA and PIPA bills 'break Internet?' Anti-piracy measure being revised.', Christian Science Monitor 1/18/2012, pN.PAG, 2012, http://p8331-xlib1.ohiolink.edu.proxy.ohiolink.edu:9099/V/GTB4XYI6L1CXL5NBDYCVV6RI7982D6PXVQKALGNUG81BH69IVP-35976?func=quick-3&short-format=002&set_number=023808&set_entry=000002&format=999   


Summary of Article: The article summerized the bills in a "watered down version" stating that under the proposed laws search engines could not link to forien sites that have pirated material on them, advertising websites would be chopped, and cut off payment prosessing. And that opposers thought it was a solution but it was more like a 'cluster bomb' solution and that there is probably a better one out there. Also opposers argue that the bill's wording is too vague and if not carefully thought about could come back as a 'zombie law'. For now both bills are being rivised.

Assesment and Reflection of Article: To be frank, the article broke my brain. But despite my brain breaking the article was very well written, I senced some bias from it, it leaned more toward the opposing side then the for side, but it did provided views from both sides of the argument, of those for and of those against.

Now what does this mean for education one might ask? Very simply stated, it would limit the online resourses a student could use when writing a paper or researchin a topic. Why? If a site the student used or uses for a paper had content to an forien website that was 'illegal' under one of the bills the website would be taken down and no one could use it.


Cited works:

Tsuboi, Kara, http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_162-57360665-503544/sopa-pipa-what-you-need-to-know/, January 18, 2012

Clayton, Mark, 'Would SOPA and PIPA bills 'break Internet?' Anti-piracy measure being revised.', Christian Science Monitor 1/18/2012, pN.PAG, 2012, http://p8331-xlib1.ohiolink.edu.proxy.ohiolink.edu:9099/V/GTB4XYI6L1CXL5NBDYCVV6RI7982D6PXVQKALGNUG81BH69IVP-35976?func=quick-3&short-format=002&set_number=023808&set_entry=000002&format=

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