Republican presidential hopefuls weighed in on the controversial Stop Online Privacy Act (SOPA) on Thursday night during a debate in Charleston, South Carolina.
Each of the remaining potential nominees — Newt Gingrich, Mitt Romney, Rick Santorum and Ron Paul — denounced the SOPA bill one day after some of the Internet’s most popular and prominent websites staged a black-out protest against the bill that a wide range of parties have criticized as draconian and destructive to creativity and freedom of information.
“The idea that we’re going to preemptively have the government start censoring the Internet on behalf of giant corporations’ economic interests strikes me as exactly the wrong thing to do,” Gingrich said.
Romney spoke next and agreed with Gingrich.
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