huffingtonpost.com – Valerie Keefe – Writer, activist, candidate, unpaid political consultant, service-sector prole, and general nuisance
There are many valid reasons to oppose the passage of SOPA. I won’t dignify the bill with its Orwellian name, just as I won’t call a tax on inheritances anything but an estate tax, but suffice it to say, SOPA’s most well-known provision is the reverse-onus copyright provisions, the kind of assault at the heart of Web 2.0 that would erase much of the progress of the last decade when it comes to the flow of information and the ease of creation of art…