{"id":25514,"date":"2012-01-18T07:06:06","date_gmt":"2012-01-18T14:06:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/01\/18\/what-is-sopa.html"},"modified":"2012-01-18T15:23:31","modified_gmt":"2012-01-18T22:23:31","slug":"what-is-sopa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/01\/18\/what-is-sopa.html","title":{"rendered":"What is SOPA?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In case you&#39;ve been hearing all the #SOPA discussion today.  Here&#39;s one of the few main English Wikipedia pages not blacked. <\/p>\n<p>Fighting piracy sounds like a great idea.  Of course, it&#39;s a better idea when you don&#39;t let folks willy-nilly burn down an entire town to make sure that you catch a couple of rumored people hiding there who someone&#39; accused of being pirates. #ddtb<\/p>\n<p style='clear:both;'>\n<p style='margin-bottom:5px;'><strong>Embedded Link<\/strong><\/p>\n<div style='height:120px;width:120px;overflow:hidden;float:left;margin-top:0px;padding-top:0px;margin-right:10px;vertical-align:top;text-align:center;clear:both;'>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img style='max-width:none;' src='http:\/\/images0-focus-opensocial.googleusercontent.com\/gadgets\/proxy?container=focus&#038;gadget=a&#038;resize_h=100&#038;url=http%3A%2F%2Fupload.wikimedia.org%2Fwikipedia%2Fcommons%2Fthumb%2Fb%2Fbe%2FUS-GreatSeal-Obverse.svg%2F140px-US-GreatSeal-Obverse.svg.png' border='0' \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Stop_Online_Piracy_Act'>Stop Online Piracy Act &#8211; Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia<\/a><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tfrom the [Attorney General]&#39;s point of view, the browser&#39;s efforts to find an authoritative DNS server will look like a deliberate effort to evade his blocking order. The latest version of SOP&#8230;\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p style='clear:both;'>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In case you&#39;ve been hearing all the #SOPA discussion today. Here&#39;s one of the few main English Wikipedia pages not blacked. Fighting piracy sounds like a great idea. Of course, it&#39;s a better idea when you don&#39;t let folks willy-nilly burn down an entire town to make sure that you catch a couple of rumored &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/01\/18\/what-is-sopa.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;What is SOPA?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,3,79,9],"tags":[107,130],"class_list":["post-25514","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-blogging","category-media-intellectual-property","category-politics-law","tag-ddtb","tag-sopa"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":25522,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/01\/18\/more-on-the-defense-of-sopa-and-pipa.html","url_meta":{"origin":25514,"position":0},"title":"More on the defense of SOPA and PIPA","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 18-Jan-12 10:44am","format":false,"excerpt":"(Don't they sound like evil pixies?)Yet another nice article here on the two bills, debunking a number of the defenses made of them. #ddtb Embedded Link An Updated Analysis: Why SOPA & PIPA Are A Bad Idea, Dangerous & Unnecessary | Techdirt Okay. 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