We made a group paper on the SOPA/PIPA which is a law that states that internet should have censorship and the act did not just caused uproar to the Americans who wished to stop the bill but also to the billions of people around the world. Most of the internet sites that were affected of the bill are American owned internet sites. Among the internet sites were: Tumblr, Mozilla, Techdirt, 9gag, Google and Wikipedia. The internet sites Google, however, did another approach to act upon SOPA/PIPA.
Google allegedly made an online petition to its site that collected more than 7 million signatures from the United States alone. Numerous internet companies protested on November 16 to act against the SOPA/PIPA act. Most of these internet companies displayed on their site logos black posters that had the words “STOP CENSORSHIP” in the front. These sites protested by participating in the American Censorship Day.
In an article on the internet displayed that Recording Industry Association of America or (RIAA) spokesman Jonathan Lamy made a statement saying, "It's a dangerous and troubling development when the platforms that serve as gateways to information intentionally skew the facts to incite their users and arm them with misinformation", (Lamy, 2011). They fear that the SOPA/PIPA act was being misunderstood and misrepresented in a way.
Most of the bill’s supporters are aware the most of the public are being tricked by the same anarchistic gimmick that every protest that appears viral to the internet. As the sites protested against the bill, they called it the biggest Internet Blackout in history. Some news ads tell that SOPA and PIPA are wholely unnecessary.
This is shown by the recent action of the Federal Bureau of Investigation of shutting down the Site, Megaupload and imprisoning its owner. The action of the SOPA/PIPA act gave rise to the protest group called “Anonymous” or “Anon” that is very popular and viral in various sites. Anonymous stated that their recent action is to be their biggest assault with over 5,635 people contributing in the DoS (Denial-of-service) assault by means of Low Orbit Ion Cannon or LOIC.
LOIC was thus was only partly effective because of the reason that it is exploited by numerous aggressors, in spite the fact that a network firewall may possibly with no trouble filter out the traffic of the network. Anonymous made a threat to shut down or “blackout” 60,000 facebook servers in retaliation to the SOPA/PIPA act on Jan 28. The whole operation orchestrated by anonymous was called “operation global blackout”.
"Bill Killed: SOPA death celebrated as Congress recalls anti-piracy acts" was said on the CBS news on January 21, 2012. “It was the biggest protest in internet history with over 115 thousand sites altering their webpages” (not exact words) said another company who opposed the bill, The Electronic Frontier Foundation, a rights advocacy non-profit group.
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