http://www.desmoinesregister.com/article/20120119/OPINION01/301190099/Guest-columnists-Sweeping-new-web-piracy-law-could-squash-startups
Columnists Christian Renaud and Tej Dhawan address this issue in a far more personal way. They explain the legislation, SOPA and PIPA, from the perspective of those who don't want to see the government have this much power over our "free" internet. They believe that allowing these bills to pass only gives the government an inappropriate amount of power unlike anything they have had before. Additionally, they write about what these impositions could bring about in the economic world of the internet. These acts give websites the power to dismantle their competitors without just cause. They make it possible for one website to cause another to be completely destroyed, and to do so without warning. This sort of power will make it nearly impossible for new websites to begin functioning because they would not be able to prepare themselves for the countless lawsuit possibilities that could come with running a website. This would stifle the new and upcoming websites, and only give more power to the big media moguls that already exist. Renaud and Dhawan assert that the big websites that lead internet usage today, began as small websites that wouldn't have been able to cover the costs of the promised law suits these acts would bring. Websites like Facebook and Google needed their initial time to grow before they could become what they are, and new websites deserve that same opportunity.
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