Like silence, but not really silent. The news of the bills entitled SOPA and PIPA barely made a blip on the radar for many internet users when they were first introduced into the US Congress. But the fact that so many people were ignorant of the effects this legislation could have on all of us should be, quite frankly, a little worrying.

They usually shut you first before you clarify yourself. A recent example of this is the Bodog. com web address? Know the legal risks. The National Business Review, March 19.

For example posed the question, Should we be looking at one overall law so that the same rules and regulations can apply between each country? I fear that an international law would lead to Internet imperialism. Each country holds different values and beliefs, so I simply do not see how we apply one.

Regulating a world within itself. As the Internet is not run by anyone, regulating and enforcing laws for this phenomenon is impossible. So how do we regulate a world within itself? Frank Warren talks about Postsecret. Even so there is no way of knowing who sent the postcard.

The day that SOPA was introduced, the online community was reeling. Reddit and several thousand other smaller websites co-ordinated a blackout in protest, while others made a more active protest; the self-proclaimed hacktivists Anonymous claiming responsibility for shutting down many pro-SOPA websites.