Last night I had a horrifying dream that a group of well-intentioned middle-aged people who could not distinguish between a domain name and an IP address were trying to regulate the Internet. Then I woke up and the Judiciary Committee’s SOPA hearings was on.
— Alexandra Petri exposes the farcical hearings taking place on the Stop Online Piracy Act - an incredibly harmful bill with bipartisan support that is making its way through the House. It’s sister bill in the Senate, the Protect IP Act, is equally damaging to online innovation.