SOPA/PIPA: Internet Censorship

We’re going to step aside briefly from talking about film and television to talk, instead, a little politics. HTTP is not taking political stances as it’s irrelevant to our goals, but there are currently several bills being pushed through the United States Congress that not only directly effect us but pretty much every other media networking and content group on the Internet, along with the Internet as a whole. This includes everything from Facebook to YouTube to our own site (which shares massive numbers of videos and photos). What’s worse is that these bills, at least until the Internet started fighting back, are/were very likely to pass both Congress and President Obama’s desk, something that would be the beginning of the end of free speech. It’s tricky because I start to sound like some extremist conspiracy theorist, but for once these bills are real.