The News' Networks SOPA Blackout
January 9, 2012
Posted by Josh Levy
You may have heard about the Stop Online Piracy Act, or SOPA. Simply put, this Web-censorship bill in the House could destroy free speech on the Internet.
Opposition to the bill has reached a boiling point. Millions of activists, hundreds of startups, social media sites like Tumblr, Reddit and Twitter and even big companies like Google, Yahoo! and eBay have joined with Free Press and other Internet advocacy groups against it.
This is one of the biggest tech stories of the year. Yet as a recent report from Media Matters for America shows, TV news has ignored it.
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Open and free society
Open and free society requires objective and thorough coverage of news, public issues and debate. News services choosing to blindside the public imperil the republic on which they stand. They erode the long term value of their own corporate brands, and compromise the integrity and trust in all news services.
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