Friday, January 20, 2012

Leave the internet alone

Huge protest caused Congress to put off the internet piracy bill. Good. To see what the "uprising" was all about see below:

Jeff Chester, executive director for the Center for Digital Democracy, a consumer protection and privacy advocacy group, said Google and Facebook and their supporters "have delivered a powerful blow to the Hollywood lobby." He predicted a compromise that doesn't include what many see as overreaching provisions in the current legislation.

"It's been framed as an Internet freedom issue, but at the end of the day it will be decided on the narrow interests of the old and new media companies," he said. The big questions involve who should or shouldn't pay - or be paid - for Internet content.

No comments:

Post a Comment