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January 12th, 2012 | 
Author: It is ridiculous to me in this day and age that SOPA and PIPA has gotten as far as it has.
If SOPA and/or PIPA pass as is, censorship would occur. It will slow down development and inovations that our economy needs to grow and survive. The timing is also very bad.
Those who support it say things that sound good. Let’s stop piracy. That is good. If something is done illegally then it should be dealt with. The problem is that SOPA will cause innocent sites to be shut down for doing nothing wrong. It really will not even do what it is intended to do. The real bad guys can get around it.
It seems to me that it will also allow companies to have their competition easily caught up in issues that could lead to their demise when they had not done anything wrong. Piracy needs to be addressed. Laws that are already in place needs to be enforced.
If SOPA had been inacted a decade ago, the web would be very different today. It would suck. If you support SOPA, you do not understand what it can do to site owners that have done nothing wrong.
Check out: http://www.copyblogger.com/sopa/ and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SOPA
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Mark Zuckerberg made an announcement today that Skype will be rolled out and easily used within the Facebook interface. This is not completely shocking. However I do think that this may be one of the next big steps in social media.
It should be very interesting to see how quickly it catches on.
Facebook is down again.
I now realize how many times a day I visit. Come back up please.
Facebook pages right now are having a problem as many people are unable to make certain comments and admins cannot reply to some posts.
This Facebook bug is causing major issues. Hopefully they will fix soon!
It is interesting to see Myspace attempt to grab some traffic and keep people on their site by allowing users to syndicate their Myspace statuses to Facebook easily.
They are trying.
I never thought that I would see the day where I saw President Obama on the television show The View as I work on posting Halloween related items on social media sites.
What an interesting event. Regardless of political views….. hmmm.
Back to work.
I am so pleased that YouTube won the case with Viacom regarding copyright. I do think that YouTube should react to copyright infringement complaints just as any other site in history. However, they should not be singled out because of their volume. The Safe Harbor should apply.
Viacom should embrace new technology and work with everybody and stop worrying about lawsuits.
Starting today, Facebook is rolling out new privacy controls that can be found in your account area. Hopefully this will help the cause for all. I do not think the too many hardcore Facebook users will tighten up their privacy too much. It is good to have the option.
Considering all of what is heard and read in the news, radio and television, it is sad that many Americans base their opinion of heathcare reform on propaganda and not the facts.
It was odd that I was wondering today if we would see Obama eating at fast food places as we did Bill Clinton. Then an hour later, I hear that Bill Clinton is in the hospital because of heart issues.
Guess it is time to eat better!