NodeOne protests SOPA

We at NodeOne of course support content creators. After all, several of our clients are among them, so are most of our staff, either professionally or personally. That brings us to one of the fundamental misconceptions underlying SOPA: that the Internet is divided into one group of content creators, and an unimportant faceless mass of content consumers. The reality, with social media, open source culture and low barrier-to-entry CMS systems such as Drupal, is that the line between the two is more blurred than ever. SOPA attempts to put a censorship veto without due process in the hand of a small minority of so-called content creators, and the rationale behind it is highly dubious at best. Another important fault of this proposed legislation is the slippery slope effect where any powerful measure of force, even if implemented once for a just cause, becomes a persistent temptation to those in power to use it for less noble reasons. Look no further than the in-effect DMCA and the way it has been used to censor just criticism on YouTube in the name of copyright. These are some of the reasons why we at NodeOne are taking a stand agains SOPA and similar attempts to take a stranglehold on the free flow of information and culture that is known as the Internet. Join us, and let's take the net to the next level instead of ruining it!