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Understanding SOPA

Posted: February 5, 2012 in Current Events

SOPA—if you have a Facebook, use Google as your go to search engine, have a blog, or just use the Internet on a daily basis then you probably recognize this. SOPA, the “Stop Online Piracy Act,” is a bill that seeks to protect copyright material and stop any piracy of content on the Internet. This [...]

 Over the course of the past few weeks I have been very curious to educate myself more on Occupy Wall Street, a protest against the people of corporate status who they claim have put us, American citizens, in this financial crisis. From what I have learned, Occupy Wall Street targets the corporate world for stealing [...]

According to the New York Times, more than two trillion text messages are sent each year in the United States, generating more than $20 billion in revenue for the wireless industry. As a college student, I know that I send over 100 text messages a day. Whether it is to my roommate about what they [...]