SOPA

I've just now started to understand what SOPA is trying to do, and honestly, I have mixed feelings about it. As far as my understanding goes, people post stuff on websites that is not theirs. The people who do own that stuff, if they got mad, could have sufficient legal justification to immediately remove said stuff. But does that mean that the said owners of said stuff have never been on the other side of it? Is there someone who has never used something that wasn't theirs?

While I think it (initially and logically) makes sense for people to have the right to say "Hey, this is mine, don't use it," one, doesn't mean you have to actually say that, and two, isn't that what the Internet and social networks are about? Isn't Facebook about telling the world everything you do and showing your friends stuff you found? Isn't that the entire premise of my blog?

Although the protest of SOPA makes no vernacular sense (Stop "Stop Online Pirating"...Encourage Online Pirating?), the point is beyond that. The point is to have the ability (and possibly/probably the right) to share what we want with the world, and if SOPA would put an end to that, well, let's put an end to SOPA.

(Editor's Note: And my political quota is forever fulfilled on this blog. Three paragraphs.)