Friday, January 20, 2012

SOPA crumbles under the weight of the Internet

Just two days ago, I wrote about Lamar Smith refusing to back down on his much-aligned Stop Online Piracy Act bill despite the tremendous online protest.

On Wednesday? That post was completely true. On Thursday? The same story. But today, amid the fury of Internet giants and commoners alike, Smith has officially withdrawn his SOPA bill.

It's a big win for countless content creators, many of which voiced their strong opposition to the bill Wednesday. Sites like Google, StumbleUpon, Facebook and Wikipedia blacked out their sites in a united protest of what they considered extreme censorship.