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Boing Boing Editor: SOPA and PIPA Are 'Completely Ineffective'
January 18, 2012 from Al Jazeera English
Numerous US-based websites, including Wikipedia, Boing Boing, and Reddit have gone offline as a protest against two US laws that they say limit important freedoms that the internet has brought people. The two laws are called the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and the PROTECT IP Act (PIPA). Google, Facebook, Yahoo, Twitter, eBay, and AOL have all spoken out against the proposed legislation. Rob Beschizza, the managing editor of Boing Boing, joins Al Jazeera English from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
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