Consideration of strong anti-piracy legislation known as SOPA in the House of Representatives led Wikipedia and other websites to “go dark,” as a form of protest. The legislation touches on topics that roil passions in America’s culture: copyright law, free speech and the Internet. Here, we answer basic questions about the bill, and where things [...]
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