Will 2012 Be 1984: DRM and SOPA are Breaking The Internet! via www.singularityweblog.com

Imagine a world where someone has a monopoly over the media, backed by the power to ban personal privacy and political dissent and capable of preventing people from public gathering and collective discussion without due process, judicial review or any evidence! Sound familiar?! Some of you might venture a guess that the above text reads like a passage from George Orwell’s 1984. Others might say that it sounds like the situation under the totalitarian regimes of the former Eastern Block or any other contemporary authoritarian. It is vital to realize, however, that this is not only fiction. This is not just the situation in some geographically obscure country stuck in the last 6 seconds of the evening newscast. This is in fact the future reality that we might be facing today, here, in the “free world.” This is Canada, the United States and the E.U.