The Wikipedia is set to go on strike on Wednesday.
In protest against SOPA (Stop Online Piracy Act) and PIPA (Protect IP Act), the English version of Wikipedia will be closed for the day. The two bills are supposed to stop piracy acts online. Along with voices from Google, Yahoo, Facebook, and others, Wikipedia maintains they will limit oru freedom in cyberspace.
The two bills blocks DNS name, making it harder to get to a website, an attempt to block users from websites with illegal contents. The critics argue the measures would simply do not work in preventing users from going to those sites just by blocking the names translation to IP addresses. They claim the bills would inconvenient ordinary users but ineffective in preventing the real crimes.
There are many ridiculous laws around the globe to limit the Internet accesses of the citizens. The notorious Chinese censorship by the state prohibits users to look up words such as democracy or Tiananmen Square. The South Korean government finally decided to let its citizens use the Internet for 'political purposes' just days ago. The Japanese government is not yet ready to step forward in that direction.
Let us hope the Congress is informed enough not to pass 'the Prohibition' type of laws and falsely claim that they actually are doing something meaningful while sacrificing the conveniences of good and ordinary users.
In protest against SOPA (Stop Online Piracy Act) and PIPA (Protect IP Act), the English version of Wikipedia will be closed for the day. The two bills are supposed to stop piracy acts online. Along with voices from Google, Yahoo, Facebook, and others, Wikipedia maintains they will limit oru freedom in cyberspace.
The two bills blocks DNS name, making it harder to get to a website, an attempt to block users from websites with illegal contents. The critics argue the measures would simply do not work in preventing users from going to those sites just by blocking the names translation to IP addresses. They claim the bills would inconvenient ordinary users but ineffective in preventing the real crimes.
There are many ridiculous laws around the globe to limit the Internet accesses of the citizens. The notorious Chinese censorship by the state prohibits users to look up words such as democracy or Tiananmen Square. The South Korean government finally decided to let its citizens use the Internet for 'political purposes' just days ago. The Japanese government is not yet ready to step forward in that direction.
Let us hope the Congress is informed enough not to pass 'the Prohibition' type of laws and falsely claim that they actually are doing something meaningful while sacrificing the conveniences of good and ordinary users.