Candidates on SOPA.

SOPA is a huge topic right now in the internet world. If you're anything like me, you spend time frequenting wikipedia when looking up interesting things, or Tumblr when blogging and reblogging... On wednesday, they were blocked.. Tumblr willingly if you decided.

I found it pretty interesting to hear what the candidates had to say about it. Most of the top GOP candidates are actually against it , as it increases federal and other governmental control over the cyber world and it restricts internet freedom. During a presidential debate in South Carolina, Romney stated “The truth of the matter is that the law as written is far too intrusive, far too expansive, far too threatening to freedom of speech and movement of information across the Internet, ........“It would have a potentially depressing impact on one of the fastest-growing industries in America, which is the internet and all those industries connected to it,” .  Even Gingrich had commentary on it saying “I favour freedom. And I think that if we have a Patent Office, we have copyright law. If a company finds that it has genuinely been infringed upon, it has the right to sue for, but the idea that we’re going to preemptively have the government start censoring the internet on behalf of giant corporations’ economic interests strikes me as exactly the wrong thing to do,” .... The least shocking of them all was Paul as everyone who has been watching the debates know that he has very strong libertarian views and believes that the government should stay out of most matters. He was one of the first republicans to sign up with opposition to the Bill. Anyways, its good to see that the candidates support internet freedom...or at least are against the government having too much control over it.....

http://online.wsj.com/video/candidates-react-to-anti-piracy-legislation/B4A27831-831B-4117-BA8E-4314D2FE98E4.html