Tomorrow, Google’s homepage will include a blank page ! May be, with Twitter, Facebook and Yahoo, some of them sent a joint letter to key members of the Senate last November to express their opposition to SOPA, and the rest include the blank pages.
SOPA, also known as H.R.326: Stop Online Piracy Act is a bill that was introduced in the United States House of Representatives on October 26, 2011. The bill expands the ability of U.S. law enforcement and copyright holders to fight online trafficking in copyrighted intellectual property and counterfeit goods.
A Google spokesperson told Mashable that its homepage will not include a blank page BUT a link where users can learn more about SOPA.
“Like many businesses, entrepreneurs and web users, we oppose these bills because there are smart, targeted ways to shut down foreign rogue websites without asking American companies to censor the Internet,†the spokesperson said in an e-mail statement. “So tomorrow we will be joining many other tech companies to highlight this issue on our U.S. home page.â€
The companies oppose the bill because it is consider as an Internet Censorship. On the other side proponents of the SOPA say that something needs to be done to counter Internet piracy and that Google, among others, should play a role in that enforcement.
Any way, the next day [On Wednesday] we will see either a blank pages, or a link where users can learn more about SOPA.
