SOPA is a current bill before congress that would censor the internet, restrict freedom of speech and directly threat thousands of independent blogs like Trifecta Sports. The bill was meant to restrict piracy online, which I am all for, but the bill is so vague that it leaves the door open for regulation of many internet users/bloggers.
Many film and music companies as well as MLB, NFL, ESPN, Disney and many others support the bill because of the money they have lost to piracy. On the other side of the argument, Facebook, Twitter, Google, Wikipedia as well as thousands of other sites have openly opposed this bill. Wikipedia has even gone as far as to shut down their website for the day in protest of the bill. Google features a large black rectangle over their logo with a message “Tell Congress: Please Don’t Censor The Web!”
To sign the petition against SOPA, please click here.
I am an artsit and am dealing with a worldwide company that I started with as an on-line vendor around 2004. My art was being sold on their products and I was getting very little money for my sales. Right now I find my art is all over the world and I am not getting a penny and have not given permission for the company to do that. ( I was away for a few years and thought my site was taken down.)Anyway I am pretty sure that if you read their “terms of service” you would find that they say they are against on-line piracy. But in reality they do it all the time… So anyway it’s easy to lie about that. How do you know?(I am getting help on my case soon.)SylviART