| SOPA and PIPA would put burden on website owners to police material DataNEG1 #143238 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:SOPA_initiative/Learn_more |
- How could SOPA and PIPA hurt Wikipedia?
- SOPA and PIPA would put the burden on website owners to police user-contributed material and call for the unnecessary blocking of entire sites. Small sites won't have sufficient resources to defend themselves. Big media companies may seek to cut off funding sources for their foreign competitors, even if copyright isn't being infringed. Some foreign sites would be prevented from showing up in major search engines. And, SOPA and PIPA build a framework for future restrictions and suppression.
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