Nowadays, there are many useful websites that people have freedom to access for getting the knowledge and information especially most of students use it to do their homework or reports while other people use it for entertainment. However, US government try to stop the illegal website by legislation Stop online piracy act(Sopa) and Protect Intellectual Property Act(Pipa) which cause displeasure among some search engines such as Wikipedia, Google and Yahoo etc. and some users.
According to "Wikipedia joins blackout protest at US anti-piracy moves" on the BBC News website, Jimmy wales who is the Wikipedia site's founder disagree with the Sopa and Pipa because the purpose of the law is giving authority to the state and private individual to close and prosecute websites that involve both direct and indirect violation such as search engines or links which are relate to illegal sites etc. So, this law may become a tool of the state for charging of various website unfairly.
I think US want to promulgate the Sopa and Pipa to control some websites such as Torrent that allow people loading violative movies and musics but this law will affect the connection and right in using Internet widely. It not only make the online business lose their profit which are from the online advertising but also search engines that have to cancel the link which connect to illegal websites. So, these websites such as Google, Yahoo, Wikipedia will lose their efficiency in searching the information because some important data may be inserted in not allowance site.
As a student and user, I disagree with the legislation because I think this method cannot solve problem directly. Although US try to suppress the existent illegal sites, after this, other new websites will be created again and again so it is the cycle which not has the end. Moreover, if every sites turn to be legal sites, people who want to get into the websites for finding some information will have to pay for using it that I think it not fair. Since US should concern about the education in their country by supporting students to access the information without payment. The important and necessary thing for US government to do is try to find the suitable measures which benefit for both consumers and producers or encourage them to participate and solve the problem together
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References
Wikipedia joins blackout protest at US anti-piracy moves. (2012, January 18). BBC News. Retrieved January 18, 2012. from http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-16590585
I agree with your idea, for I'm the one who used them to find information. I do not see that their solution will be able work because the current technological advances and the population in the world has the ability to increase, so I believe that it must have some groups make websites which inappropriate come up again.
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