The Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA)

The meaning and magnitude of this proposal is critical to understand. We must be conscientious about new forms of censorship in the Information Age.

The Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA), also known as H.R.3261, is a bill that was introduced in the United States House of Representatives on October 26, 2011.

Anyone interested in the raw material, can read the bill in full here.

Proponents of the bill say it protects the intellectual property market and corresponding industry, jobs and revenue, and is necessary to bolster enforcement of copyright laws especially against foreign websites. Opponents say it is Internet censorship, that it will cripple the Internet, and will threaten whistleblowing and other free speech.

It is understandable that copyright holders would like their ‘intellectual property’ to be protected, and that security is the general aspiration of this bill. Does this mean we have to place absurd limitations on public internet usage? I’m sure we are capable of a more efficient and ethical method of accomplishing this goal.

Art Bordsky of advocacy group Public Knowledge stated that,

“The definitions written in the bill are so broad that any US consumer who uses a website overseas immediately gives the US jurisdiction the power to potentially take action against it.”


The world is shrinking with every user that joins the web. This may seem paradoxical, but it is undeniable. International communication is quickly becoming the norm in corporate operations, and social networking. The ambiguous nature of SOPA is dangerous to our constitutional freedom, and should be impeded from implementation at all cost. Nothing good can result from a deliberate restriction of media and informaiton. Just hop on facebook and ask your friends in China ;-)

12. January 2012 by Clayton
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Allow me to reintroduce myself…

My name is Hov’, OH, wait…no it’s just Clayton.

So I figure I should let everyone know the purpose of this site and what my goals are. In a nutshell I would like to claim the title of “#1 Clayton on the internet”. How might one accomplish this task you may ask? Simple…well…not really. To claim the title I would need to be the #1 listing on Google when searching the keyword “Clayton”. The task itself is going to be a very difficult one as there are 36,300,000 results when searching my name, but I’m always up for a challenge.

Some of my top competitors:

  • Clayton Holdings Inc.
  • Clayton Homes
  • Clayton, Missouri
  • School district of Clayton, MO
  • Clayton County, GA
  • Clayton, California
  • Clayton State University
  • Clayton, North Carolina
  • Clayton Companies
  • Steve Clayton
  • Clayton County, Iowa
  • Clayton, New York

I could go on forever listing all of my competiton but I’m going to stop there.

Goal Date? I think I’m going to set the date to Jan 1st, 2013…that is of course if the world doesn’t end. This gives me a little under a year months to get this site to #1 on Google. Anyone who reads this and knows how SEO and Google PR work will probably think I’m crazy trying to accomplish this in such a short period of time, but I think I can do it. If not, I can always push the goal date back further. Realistically, I doubt I could beat out some of the other entries, but I would be satisfied with making it to the first page.

What now? Time to start blogging!

11. January 2012 by Clayton
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