Abstract
One case that demonstrates the complexity of how politics and new media work is the attempt by the US Congress to pass legislation in late 2011 called the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA). Its supporters claimed the legislation would protect the profitable film and music industries from online piracy by bolstering enforcement of copyright laws, especially against foreign-owned and operated websites.1 While the proposed legislation initially received broad support in Congress and the relevant policy-making communities, that backing was short lived. Introduced on 26 October 2011, the SOPA became the object of unprecedented opposition that was mounted using various forms of new media.
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