First time I heard of SOPA was a few months ago. At the first bill sounded good to untrained eye as it said to protecting copyright law for websites, writers and so on. But, it is much more complex than that. Rightnow, many bloggers and sites are protesting against SOPA bill, and rightly so.
To understand much complex SOPA issue, here is an article I found which explains it well;
I am against SOPA, as it is kills the free knowledge sharing internet as we know it. Right now wikipedia in US is down to protest it, this is what I saw earlier on their site:
Today, the Wikipedia community announced its decision to black out the English-language Wikipedia for 24 hours, worldwide, beginning at 05:00 UTC on Wednesday, January 18 (you can read the statement from the Wikimedia Foundation here). The blackout is a protest against proposed legislation in the United States – the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) in the U.S. House of Representatives, and the PROTECT IP Act (PIPA) in the U.S. Senate – that, if passed, would seriously damage the free and open Internet, including Wikipedia.
This will be the first time the English Wikipedia has ever staged a public protest of this nature, and it’s a decision that wasn’t lightly made. Here’s how it’s been described by the three Wikipedia administrators who formally facilitated the community’s discussion.
You can show your support for Wikipedia and Against SOPA, please show your support here:
https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/SOPA/Blackoutpage
Last month or so many bloggers and internet marketer pulled out from GoDaddy, one of the biggest domain and hosting place as they openly supported SOPA and PIPA. Basically, in simple terms, Go daddy can shut down your site, if there were any complains against your site, content and ask questions later. Many people pulled away from Godaddy and went to other registars such as NameCheap.Now, they (Godaddy) are claiming to oppose the SOPA (sort of) after many internet marketer and bloggers transfered the domains and hosting elsewhere. Moral of the story is, we mere people have lot of power, only if we got together to do and see what is the right thing to do, as so in this such case!
If you have not read about it check out;
So, where to you stand on SOPA, make it known. One does not have to take site down like wikipedia, specially when I am a small fish, but we can certainly take business elsewhere and support freedom on internet to share knowledge freely without worry over shutting down sites.
SOPA and PIPA could affect even smaller blogger like you and me, know and learn about it and oppose it.