“Clay Shirky: Why SOPA is a bad idea”
In this TED “Talks” video Clay shares the real impact of the SOPA PIPA legislation and warns us that even if it’s not passed we need to be prepared for a fight because that won’t end it. He tells us how for the past twenty years there has been efforts to stop us from sharing things we enjoy with each other.
In fact, if any legislation similar to SOPA ever passes, we could lose Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, Google+ and much more. We may have to close comments on our own blogs.
But the most startling thing that this video brought to my mind was the story about a bakery and children’s artwork of their favorite characters. Very sad! And I never thought about this type of thing.
What’s the full story?
Watch the video below. It’s in the first minute or so and I’ll bet you will be shocked!
I will also No to SOPA. One reason is that many marketers will don’t have the ability to make money that way. Hoping that the censorship will not been able to win.
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This is a nightmare. I have signed the Avaaz petition, We have to stop this, it will smother creativity and have consequences beyond what most of us are currently able to comprehend.
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This SOPA thing is another step to take control of our awareness…
I really hope it wont go through.
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thanks for the info. I agree with you in everything. Greetings from Greece
Deb,
Love this post. More online people like ourselves need to get the word out about this crazy bill they are trying to make into law! It’s great when you want to shut down the sites that do promote and encourage and facilitate stealing of intellectual property. On the other hand, the law pretty much gives the government the power to shut down pretty much any site they want (I guess it will depend on who’s in office!). And if they make a mistake, oh well, your site and your business will be destroyed and you will have no recourse!
Thanks for sharing!
– Jupiter Jim
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Hi, Deb! Thanks for sharing TED’s video. It made me understand SOPA and PIPA more. I can’t imagine how the Internet would be without the freedom of expression. I agree with Ted that this legislation aims to increase the cost of copyright compliance and deprive the small players of their right to do business. It’s like giving all the opportunity to the big companies only. It’s so sad and I hope and pray that they come to their senses.
SOPA is a stupid bill that’s going to block the industry that’s giving thousands of jobs globally just for the sake of few to gain. I hope this issue would end soon. My wall on FB and G+ was flooded with SOPA news and updates and I’m not tired to spread this news over and over again. Thanks for the video.
Hi Deb, Thanks for posting this and I know that Lamar Smith has pulled the bill, but this video really hits home how serious the problem is.
Although I fail to see the point in SOPA or PIPA considering what the US Government has already done to websites with no proof.(guilty until proven innocent).
a while back a hiphop site (dajaz1.com or something similar) was taken down by “ICE” – Apparently the site distributed music without copyright holder permission, so they took down the site based on the word of a major label VP who wasn’t in a position to know whether the content was illegally distributed or not, 1 year later they are back online and have been cleared.. turns out they had permission from copyright holders for all music that was distributed .. in fact it was at the copyright holders request.. Pretty much destroyed the site.
I wouldn’t like to see the internet turn into what those behind SOPA/PIPA want it to be.
Although we’ve won the battle of SOPA/PIPA, we haven’t won the war unfortunately.
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The talks about SOPA has not yet ended but ACTA is coming it’s way, worst than SOPA according to many. How this stupid bill came up with the society nowadays?! This is so rude! If ever, they would affect millions of people’s living and as well as privacy and freedom to information.
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You’re right, ACTA news is all over, my G+ account is also flooded about the latest news about it. I can’t imagine how life would be if SOPA/ACTA is implemented. I guess I will just kiss my business online and job as well.
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There’s already too much censorship on the internet, we don’t need more. Just yesterday or the day before, Twitter announced it will now censor tweets if they make certain governments upset. The censorship is getting to rampant and SOPA will only do more harm. Even if they stop this, the government will come up with something else in a different package containing many of the same things that make this legislation so bad.
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I have been wondering what happened to Megaupload. In the middle of the big SOPA/PIPA discussion Megaupload was taken down. Doesn’t that mean that the laws are already in action? Or maybe copyright infringement wasn’t the reason it was taken down? But if it was, then they already have the power to take down a site just like that!
I was unaware before from this thanks for sharing this post for telling about this…
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SOPA and PIPA are so scary and threatening to the landscape of the internet, I’m glad you wrote about it, we need to spread the word as much as possible!
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Hi,
I can’t see this being passed. It will put 10,000′s of people out of jobs. Just what the US economy (and the rest of us) needs at the moment.
Piracy is a crime so solve it through the criminal justice system. Who’s behind SOPA/PIPA? Murdoch? Thanks for sharing this great article…
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While US won in the SOPA battle Europe is still fighting for their right against ACTA. It has the same background as SOPA but Europeans are calling it different to avoid “negative” impact from SOPA to list legislation.
Very nice speech and every politician should listen to this!
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I really wish that ACTA won’t pass. Many have protested ACTA and the news is all over the web. Even members of the congress, why can’t they let go of the internet freedom alone?!
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A month ago there was a lot of buzz about SOPA. It seems to have died down of late. I wonder if they are still going to censor a lot of websites.
If we cannot share information freely online, then perhaps we will regress to paper and ink like the old times, then the publishers would be laughing their way to the bank obviously.
Thanks Deb, the TED video is a brilliant presentation. I had not realised the historic continuity of this assault on our rights, or that it can be boiled down to a reversal of the burden of proof.
TED always has brilliant stuff to offer. Regarding this topic, it was essential that they give us explanation and their point of view.
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Wow. THAT is sobering…This is really important and threatens to change A…LOT. Thanks for posting this. I had absolutely no clue. We live in a rapidly changing world…
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