SOPA and PIPA theseare two bills being considered in Congress right now SOPA stands for the Stop Online piracy Act PIPA stands for Protect IP act Both of them are focused on stopping internet piracy but these bills are causing a lot of controversy especially on the internet If you went to Google’s front page yesterday you saw this big black box covering up the logo You also might have noticed that you couldn’t access some websites The companies that run those sites were protesting against these bills On one side of this debate you have people who argued that online piracy leads to lost income and lost jobs for companies that create content The critics argued that SOPA and PIPA could turn into censorship Another say internet pirates will just find a way around them anyway
