I think we can learn a few lessons here, many of which illustrate ... 4) Polarization is an illusion of agenda-control: SOPA/PIPA was a completely bipartisan endeavor, promoted by Republican ...

SOPA (and its cousin PIPA) were an attempt by Congress (or, more accurately, the entertainment industry who lobbies Congress) to combat piracy. While the issues of piracy may be overstated by the ...

Chinese artist Guo Mei (R) teaches a student to play pipa in Qormi, Malta, on March 17, 2025. A groundbreaking initiative to introduce Chinese music to Maltese youth, featuring lessons of pipa ...

But while the DMCA focuses on removing specific, unauthorized content from the Internet, SOPA and PIPA instead target the platform -- that is, the site hosting the unauthorized content.

What about SOPA and PIPA caused such an impassioned flurry of unequivocal outrage across the U.S. and abroad? Simply put, people had a lot to lose if those bills became law. The biggest lesson ...

[Photo/Xinhua] A groundbreaking initiative to introduce Chinese music to Maltese youth, featuring lessons of pipa, a traditional Chinese pear-shaped stringed instrument, was launched on Monday at ...

Soon, the already signed Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA), which was a product of a similar insider-only process to the one that created SOPA and PIPA, was under fire. Public protests in ...

VALLETTA, March 17 (Xinhua) -- A groundbreaking initiative to introduce Chinese music to Maltese youth, featuring lessons of pipa, a traditional Chinese pear-shaped stringed instrument ...