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• Question:-Why were they able to create SOPA? How big is the chance SOPA will become reality?
  Youtube and several websites are full of videos and blogs about SOPA. How was this organization able to spread out so soon? I don't live in America. So was it in the news all the time or something?
  
  And what about the chances? Is it really possible for SOPA to rule the internet? Can we expect a demonstration against SOPA? Sorry if I asked to many questions.
  
  Answer:-No, you are asking the right questions. Check Wikipedia for the arguments pro and con, look at who supports it and who opposes it, and decide yourself. I think there is enough opposition that it will not pass, but crazier things have been signed into law. A good example is the Patriot Act.
• Question:-What sort of consequences will happen if the SOPA bill passes?
  If the SOPA bill ever comes into power and is now a new law what sort of things will happen afterward? How will people react to almost every site on the internet being blocked? How long do you think that this bill might last?
  
  For me I give it a month or a year at most for it to last then it would be gone. What about you?
  
  Answer:-Facebook, youtube, and other social media sites could be blocked. And nothing would stop other sites being blocked too. Each and every day we lose more and more of our rights. Freedom of speech and the press mean nothing to greedy self interested politicians.
• Question:-What is the difference between SOPA and COICA?
  I remember reading all over the place about COICA last year, but I didn't actually pay much attention to it. Is this new SOPA thing similar to it? What exactly are they?
  
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• Question:-Exactly how will SOPA affect the internet and why are people against it?
  I understand that SOPA is supposed to stop piracy and copyright things but why are people so much against it? Are there only uneducated foolish teenagers against it because they think it will close their facebook page? Please just explain this thing to me in an easy way.
  
  Answer:-The problem with SOPA, is it will go one step further than going after illegal movie, music and vidoe game downloads. Site like facebook could be taken down and you know how youtube has a ton of fanmade videos of their favorite tv shows, you can say goodbye to those.
  
  Anyone that's just an average blogger who reviews video game and shows clips. (and they're doing it just for kicks. They get no money for it) You can say goodbye to those too.
  
  Oh and you know how some people on yotube post videos of them singing Beatle Songs or whatever. That would fall under SOPA, so those videos would be taken down. Basicly it would kill youtube and many of the social media sites.
  
  And this whole process could very well destroy the mainframe of the internet.
  
  And one of the bigger problems is the guys voting on this are a bunch of old guys who have no idea how the internet works. They don't even understand their own bill or how the whole outcome will effect the future of the internet.
• Question:-What would happen to Steam if the SOPA Bill passes?
  If the SOPA Bill passes in congress what do you think will happen to the videogame downloading site steam? WIll it be pulled down?
  
  Answer:-Steam purchases licenses to distribute software and doesn't infringe any copyrights by doing so. It wouldn't be affected. However, Garrys Mod is the only exception. Since the Source SDK is technically open source, it is technically protected, BUT there is a HUGE community dedicated to doing things like uploading Halo skins, COD weapons, real looking soda machines and almost anything you can think of. That could throw a monkey wrench into Steam, but it will most likely result in Steam dropping support for 3rd party mods and using their crappy anti-cheat garbage to ensure you don't download anything infringing. As of right now, nothing looks bad, but they could find something considering how much power SOPA gives to big corps and the government.
• Question:-What kind of harm can the SOPA Bill inflict?
  I have recently heard about the SOPA bill that might pass tomorrow and if it does, people say the internt could be ruined. Does this mean that DeviantART could be affected by this? I don't want that site shut down because of it.
  
  Answer:-Theoretically, any site that has ANY content that infringes on someone else's copyright could be blocked to U.S. internet users. Not simply given a notice to remove the content or suffer legal repercussions (which is basically what the DMCA laws do right now). Just blocked at the DNS level so that U.S. residents can't access it (well, they technically still could by accessing the IP address of the server, but the average user isn't going to go to that kind of hassle)
  
  The bill is so vague that ANY site that contains user-generated content could potentially be shut down if someone makes a complaint. It doesn't have to go through the courts first, it doesn't have to be sent a notice of the violation first. SOPA just lets a government department say "shut off access to this domain".
  
  This *potentially* means that sites like YouTube, Facebook, DeviantArt, Flickr, Twitter, and so one could be blocked in the U.S. But the real danger here is not to huge sites like those, but to smaller sites that can't afford teams of high-power lawyers. If SOPA passes, the internet is going to see a lot less innovation and social interaction, because a lot of webmasters won't be able to afford the potential legal costs.
• Question:-Is indefinite detention of Americans under NDAA and censorship under SOPA indications of a police state?
  SOPA will strip us of our rights under the 1st Amendment and indefinite detention of Americans without due process strips us of our 4th, 5th, 6th, 7th and 8th Amendments.
  
  Under SOPA and NDAA, will the United States become another police state?
  Hey Liv, what are you doing about it, while you tell me about my "police state fetish"? Maybe you're on your iPhone while protesting.
  
  Answer:-Of course it will.
  
  Sad thing is that these are the only 2 things BOTH parties can agree on. They love taking away our rights because it gives THEM more power.
• Question:-What is SOPA and how does it effect me personally?
  I need to do a speech for my public speaking class on Internet Censorship. I thought I'd talk about this new bill being passed called SOPA, but I'm not really positive of what exactly it is censoring or how it would effect me specifically. Can anyone help me out?
  
  Answer:-It's basically America's version of the Great Firewall of China
  
  
  it allows the government to block any website they want
• Question:-What is the difference between SOPA and PIPA?
  What are the differences between the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and the Protect Intellectual Property Act (PIPA) that are currently being debated?
  Is it only that SOPA is in the House and PIPA is in the Senate or are there other differences?
  
  Please and thank you :)
  
  Answer:-There are a few differences, but both will kill the internet if they pass.
  
  Here we can still fight this horrid thing.
  http://americancensorship.org/
  http://www.stopcensorship.org/