Policy by the Numbers: Our Internet

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Wednesday, January 18, 2012

Engine Advocacy—the leading advocacy group for small businesses and other innovators that build on the Web—posted a video highlighting the dangers of two U.S. bills currently making their way through congress: the PROTECT IP Act (PIPA) and the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA). The video looks at these bills from the perspective of everyday innovators, "Jack and Jill the innovators” as we've come to call them.
SOPA and PIPA would censor the web and impose burdensome regulations on American businesses. A study in 2009 found that 3.1 million Americans are employed thanks to the interactive Internet ecosystem, the very same ecosystem whose fundamental structure would radically change if this legislation passes.
Around 7,000 sites are on strike today, and millions of people have already reached out to Congress through phone calls, letters and petitions asking them to rethink SOPA and PIPA. We hope you will too: google.com/takeaction.

Posted by Brittany Smith, Policy Associate at Google

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