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Tim Berners-Lee hits out at SOPA and PIPA
THE MAN who founded the world wide web, Tim Berners-Lee, has hit out at SOPA and PIPA legislation.
Speaking to The INQUIRER at IBM's Lotusphere event in Florida, Berners-Lee said that SOPA posed a grave threat to the openness of the internet and had to be stopped.
"The laws have been put together to allow an industry body to ask the government to turn off a web site and the government can make people turn off the site without trial," he said.
"There are times when that could be very powerful and damaging, like before an election, and it is crossing a line and we have to protect the internet as an open space, we have to respect it."
Berners-Lee praised the work of Google in censoring its logo and Wikipedia for shutting down access to its site as helping draw attention to the issue in the US.
"Folks in the UK should not be complacent. There are plenty of laws they should look at out for already on the books that also have issues," he added, most likely referencing the Digital Economy Act which was passed in 2010.
Berners-Lee had earlier spoken to attendees at the event in Orlando and urged people to make their concern with the proposed legislation.
"These acts have not been put together to respect human rights as is right for a democratic country," he said.
The protests over SOPA and PIPA have seen several notable sites take public action to show their concern with the proposed laws, including Wikipedia blocking access to its site for 24 hours. µ
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Check out this video! Pure benefit for self by the very companies who produced them?
http://youtu.be/WJIuYgIvKsc
The protests yesterday were impressive.
http://bit.ly/dI3hcF
FSOPA!!!
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Your congressmen have destroyed the bill of rights with NDAA and are going to further eliminate rights with SOPA and only we as a people can stop all this nonsense the government is doing "for" us. If you dont know what the NDAA is, look it up. The president can have you killed without trial and for "terrorism, or aiding terrorism" which is not defined. look it up. The government has an opppressive agenda under Obama and the people must unite to save the remaining freedoms we still have. PEOPLE DONT KNOW HOW SERIOUS THIS IS, DO YOUR OWN RESEARCH, dont rely on the media, they are owned by the same people who are pushing to pass SOPA. Once you see the limitations of these bills, it is clear that the very people we elected to office to uphold and defend the bill of rights are trampling all over it. If your congressman voted for NDAA, chances are he doesnt care about you and will also vote for SOPA. You must get these crooks out of office because they no longer see themselves as representatives of the people, which is exactly what they should be. As a population and as a human being, it is your and my responsibility to watch out for our neighbors. The biggest threat to us here in the united states is not terrorism, it is our own government.
This is like using a chainsaw for open heart surgery rather than a scalpel. Senator Orrin Hatch has been in the Senate for 36 years and he's lost his marbles. Look at how he hates the Internet:
http://www.dethronehatch.com/orrin-hatch-is-no-friend-of-the-internet/