"The U.S. Congress is currently embroiled in a heated debated over the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA), proposed legislation that supporters argue is needed combat online infringement, but critics fear would create the "great firewall of the United States.""
"Since every dot-com, dot-net, and dot-org domain is managed by a domain name registry in the U.S., the law effectively asserts jurisdiction over tens of millions of domain names regardless of where the registrant actually resides."
Basically, this act, although perhaps well-intentioned in its attempt to stop piracy, gives the U.S. a greater amount of censorship power and will affect not only American internet users but anyone using U.S. domain based sites worldwide.
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