Internet Censorship

    In the news right now, a big issue that is garnering a lot of attention is the Stop Online Piracy Act. The SOPA is a bill that the US congress wants to put into place to help stop piracy. However, if it were to be passed it would effectively kill the internet as it currently exists. The SOPA would give large corporations and ISPs the ability to block any content they think is in violation of copyright infringement. This is a terrible bill because not only will it severely restrict the content on the internet, but will also kill the creativity of online media. There are many forms of online media and music, such as glitch music that rely on reusing existing sounds and objects, and then incorporating them into something new. However, a bill such as SOPA could effectively kill glitch music because of copyright infringement.

    In an answer to the SOPA, a large number of user from www.reddit.com are banding together to create their own version of the internet. I find this interesting because the internet itself id a medium for new works of art, and one of the proposed works of art that users are trying to create is a network similar to the internet. So the way I see it, the internet, a form of media itself, is being used to create a "private internet" as it were, another form of media. It is this form of creativity that makes the internet a wonderful tool and resource, and it would be a shame to see it ruined by narrow viewed bill.