Stop Sopa or the web really will go dark /The corporations lobbying for Sopa know exactly what they want: control of online information for profit. This is a crossroads/ # <http://www.guardian.co.uk/profile/dangillmor> Dan Gillmor <http://www.guardian.co.uk/profile/dangillmor> guardian.co.uk <http://www.guardian.co.uk/>, Tuesday 17 January 2012 # 16.11 EST As thousands of websites, including the English version of Wikipedia, prepare to "go dark" Wednesday in protest against internet <http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/internet> censorship <http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/censorship>, a new explanation is emerging for the would-be censors' acts: they simply don't understand how the internet works. The evidence suggests otherwise. Search on the these terms -- "don't understand" Sopa Congress <https://www.google.com/#hl=en&sugexp=pfwl&tok=LRLN7v05C40XGDzrwCaXTA&cp=32&g...> -- and you'll find a lots of blogposts and news stories making this point. Sopa <http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/sopa>, of course, stands for the Stop Online Piracy <http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/piracy> Act, which may or may not be stalled at the moment. Change "don't" to "doesn't' and "Congress" to "Rupert Murdoch <http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/rupert-murdoch>" in that search and you'll find a bunch of new ones stemming from Murdoch's spate of Tweets over the weekend, in which he denounced Sopa opponents and took special aim <http://twitter.com/rupertmurdoch/status/158321072943542272> at his longstanding object of loathing, Google. Two of the resulting "he doesn't understand" pieces came from people whose work I greatly respect: see this post at the Guardian by Jeff Jarvis <http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/jan/16/rupert-murdoch-internet-...>, and this one by Mathew Ingram at the GigaOm technology blog <http://gigaom.com/2012/01/16/murdoch-shows-he-doesnt-understand-how-content-...>. I beg to differ. What we're seeing does not derive from any misunderstanding. Rather, I'm convinced, this concerted push to censor the internet, through measures that would fundamentally break it, stems from a very clear understanding of what's at stake. [...] Continua qui: http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/cifamerica/2012/jan/17/stop-sopa-or-...