SOPA Lives On Despite Facebook Opposition
Facebook's strong opposition to the Stop Online Piracy Act isn't stopping lawmakers from charging ahead with it.
Facebook may be approaching one billion users, but that doesn’t scare Rep. Lamar Smith (R-Texas).
Reuters reported that Smith vowed to keep pushing the Stop Online Piracy Act, despite strong anti-SOPA efforts by Facebook, Google, Twitter, Reddit, and other Internet companies.
One of the main reasons for opposition to SOPA, especially by Facebook, is a provision that would require Internet providers to monitor customers’ traffic and block websites suspected of copyright infringement.
The social network and other Internet companies are already battling against similar, technologically and logistically infeasible requirements that India is
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