By Susana Lima
On January 18th, the Internet giant will conduct a technological blackout to protest against the SOPA law (Stop Online Piracy Act), to be voted on by the U.S. Congress on January 24th.
Among the major companies that will take action this day are Yahoo, Google, Facebook, Linkedln, Twitter, Mozilla, Amazon, and eBay among others.
The "Stop Online Piracy Act" law will aim to cancel any web page containing suspicious information material that violates the intellectual property and copyright without permission.
With this, they would almost end up with Web 2.0 and to achieve wining the fight against piracy, they intended to require the major search engines be accountable and to review the material that is shared over the Internet.
Companies that distribute users’ content such as blogs, may be susceptible to being sued and pages accused of piracy would become inaccessible since will be disposed of DNS listings. The law also requires the major search engines like Google and Yahoo to block search to these pages.
SOPA law violates one of the main objectives of the Internet which is to distribute free information around the world and denies freedom of expression.
The major search engines and social networks in the world are against SOPA and what it means. This January 18th they show the great power they have by leaving the "cyberspace" for 24 hours.
