In class, the topic of internet expansion was something touched about. How internet has changed over the years? What would the future internet be like? But there was one topic about the future of internet that was never touched on, Censorship.
Most of us have been introduced to the idea of internet censorship for a long time. Mainly censorship is something horrible viewed in a negative light. Something only horrible governments would do. But, I have noticed something recently, every time I open my Mozilla browser and the Mozilla homepage comes up, there is a little ad. "Congress is trying to censer the internet. Help Mozilla fight for a free and open web." This line of course completely grabbed my attention. Censorship in America? Definitely something worth researching regardless of a class assignment of blogging.
What has brought all this hype is a piece of legislation called "Stop Online Piracy Act". The act is to giving people the right to protect their copyrights and intellectual property online. But Mozilla is saying this will be threat to free speech and social media. In Mozilla's website the claimed to have worked on a letter with Facebook, Google, Twitter, Ebay, and Yahoo. As time progresses, it will be interesting to watch who will be against the act and the step taken to stop it from happening.
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