The Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA), or H.R. 3261, is a bill that was introduced on October 26, 2011 in the United States House of Representatives, by right-wing Texas Republican, Representative Lamar Smith and twelve initial co-sponsors. Opponents of the bill forcefully deem that the bill infringes on First Amendment rights, is effectively Internet censorship, and in fact will completely and effectively hobble the Internet. The Internet’s most well-liked sites such as Facebook, Twitter, eBay, Mozilla, Yahoo, AOL Twitter, Zynga, LinkedIn, Google, and Facebook regard the “Hollywood” sponsored copyright legislation as a real and dangerous threat.
Source: https://thehackernews.com/2012/01/sopa-hacker-news-say-no-way.html