Sunday’s Big Idea
Open Internet
How did a grass roots movement take on an industry with a powerful lobby and win?
The SOPA movement shows us how traditional power structures are being turned on their head to create a future that is significantly more democratized, distributed and universal. Indeed, as Elizabeth Stark explains in today's lesson, it was the open Internet itself that stopped SOPA, a piece of legislation that would have blacklisted websites that might infringe on copyright law.
