“Mom! Have you heard of SOPA?”<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n
I informed her that yes, in fact, I had. She said she had read about it on Google and written a letter to her Congressman. Students in her eighth-grade class are required to select an article each week and write a summary on a current event. They take turns presenting their article and this week was Julia’s turn. I liked her presentation so much, I asked her to use it as a guest blog. This is only the second guest post I have ever had.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n What?<\/strong> My current event is about SOPA , the response from the American public and the Chinese reaction to that response.<\/p>\n The article I used as reference is “The Chinese view of SOPA” from The New Yorker.<\/a><\/p>\n The author wrote,\u00a0“Chinese’s reactions to\u00a0American protests … ranged from sympathy to\u00a0gentle Schadenfreude.” Some Chinese Web users are\u00a0saying the American government is trying to copy them or\u00a0think that they are ahead of the world, and we are racing to\u00a0catch up.<\/p>\n Why?<\/strong> How?<\/strong> FUN FACT!!!(:<\/strong> So, yeah – STOP SOPA !<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"http:\/\/www.thejuliagroup.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/SOPA-slide.jpg\" "\\"SOPA-slide\\"")
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\nSOPA= Stop Online Piracy Act
\nThis bill means that if any copyrighted material is uploaded\u00a0on the internet, the website it’s on could be taken down\u00a0and the person who uploaded it could go to jail.<\/p>\n
\n\u25cf A lot of music industries and other\u00a0entertainment thought they could make a lot\u00a0more money if they could get SOPA passed.
\n\u25cf Websites are protesting because they don’t\u00a0want their web sites taken down.
\n\u25cf The Chinese reacted the way they did because\u00a0they have censorship there and we’ve always\u00a0claimed to be so much better than them as far\u00a0as not having censorship and now we’re\u00a0starting down the same path.<\/p>\n
\n\u25cf The protests started with a few programmers\u00a0creating a code to blackout their websites and\u00a0passing it on to other web sites.<\/p>\n
\n\u25cf Guess who else is opposed to SOPA?…
\nJustin Bieber!
\nBecause if SOPA were\u00a0passed when he was\u00a0younger making youtube\u00a0videos of himself singing\u00a0Chris Brown songs they\u00a0would be taken down\u00a0and he would have been\u00a0thrown in jail and never\u00a0become famous.:(…(THANKYOU)<\/p>\n