10 Biggest Threats to Internet Freedom Now That SOPA/PIPA is Dead

 

 
If you missed the blackout of thousands of sites across the Internet on January 18th, including Wikipedia and a black bar over the Google logo…well what the hell are you doing reading this, grandma?! I told you not to Google my name.  SOPA and PIPA are two bills that would be absolutely devastating for freedom on the Internet.  Thanks to the Herculean organizing efforts behind the January 18th blackout, SOPA and PIPA are effectively dead
 
But SOPA/PIPA were not the first and will certainly not be the last attempts to stifle Internet freedom.  So prepare your DDoS attacks, don your Guy Fawkes mask, and definitely don’t forget your provisions of cute cat pictures; these are the next battlefronts in the war on the Internet.   
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