EastCoastAirsoft Blog

Anybody who used the Internet today knows that many sites, including Wikipedia, were “blacked out”.  This is in protest of SOPA and PIPA, two bills that are going through the House and Senate, respectively.  These bills would effectively limit free speech on the Internet and give unprecedented power to copyright holders to shut down entire websites.  In addition, the legislation would likely not even be effective in reducing the distribution of pirated content, and even if it were, it’s not worth it.  One of the provisions calls for a DNS filtering system that is technically identical to the one used by China.  That’s how bad this is, and thankfully some of the most well known companies in the world have come out in opposition to SOPA.