Well here we are in 2012, and I guess it was bound to happen. The freedom of the Internet is under attack by those who, under the guise of copyright protection and free enterprise are trying to censor and silence millions of voices. Now I am not going to argue that copyright and piracy doesn’t exist, or that it doesn’t hurt the bottom line of artists and performers, but its ability to allow those same artists to reach a larger audience, to post their music, publish their own books, and interact directly with fans exceeds any perceived damage. Can you imagine if the FBI would have shown up at your front door for making your boyfriend/girlfriend a mixed tape? SOPA and PIPA take the desire to protect copyright to a level that would change the very nature of who we have become as a society and how we interact with each other. Some educators may say, great, students finally have to go back to the library and look thing up instead of going to Wikipedia. But in a world where eLearning and v
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