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Tech Companies Protest SOPA
The anti-piracy bill has garnered criticism from New Yorkers, who rallied this week in protest.
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The online world was rife with protest over two anti-piracy bills, the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and the Protect Intellectual Property Act (PIPA), sponsored in part by New York Senators Charles Schumer and Kirsten Gillibrand.
The bill was designed to stop piracy by giving the U.S. government more power to shut down web sites that peddle pirated material (including user-generated sites like YouTube), but tech companies say that the bill’s power is too far-reaching and veers too close into censorship territory.
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Metro New York reports that nearly 200 protesters gathered in front of Senator Schumer and Gillibrand’s offices on Tuesday, rallying for the politicians to cease their support of the bill.
“They are protecting copyright holders at the expense of everyone else. This is a grave threat to American innovation and our freedom of speech,” Cobble Hill resident and Parsons professor David Carroll told Metro. “It would basically destroy the start-up industry in the world.”
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