SOPA and PIPA seek to make it a felony to knowingly and unknowingly share copyrighted information. These two bills seek to restrict the information that is currently freely shared on the internet. ... Megaupload was a massive content sharing site, much like YouTube. ... SOPA and PIPA have been opposed so heavily by United State citizens that the Federal Government has turned to secretly attempting to pass them. ...

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Common limitations on speech relate to: slander, hate speech, fighting words, trade secrets, pornography, right to privacy, copyright violation, and campaign finance reform. ... Even though the United States have strict laws for the use of the internet, there are still too many cases which show that the internet is not a safe place for sharing information, especially in a country with over 316.1 million people....

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It has been at the center of the most controversies in American life: general issues such as the responsibilities of the branches of the federal government, the sharing of power by the federal and state governments and the rights of individuals, as well as more specific questions such as slavery, business trusts, the right of labor union, voting, school segregation, abortion and capital punishment. ... It was against this background of increasing Balkanization that the delegates met in a secret session in May 1787: out of the convention, however, came the Constitution of the U.S., a document ...

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AP American Government From Confederation to the Constitution Constitution - a framework for settling political disputes. It "involves a set of fundamental rules and customary procedures designed to resolve political differences and make political decisions legitimate." There are two types ...

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I wanted to look for secrets and other bits of information that had been leaked through the system in the past. ... Watkins shared is beliefs on the troops being sent all around the world and stated that "If the American forces were never sent to other countries for aid and order, this world would be filled with much tyranny and chaos." ...

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