SOPA Pits Out-of-Touch Congress Against the Young and the Literate.

SOPA stands for Stop Online Piracy Act.

Mainstream media supports it, as do dumb members of Congress. (Yes, 'dumb' here is synonymous with 'most.')

But Netsters like us (and almost all literate folk under 30) are repulsed by it.

David Carr of The New York Times takes this topic on and concludes with these words:

"I like my movies (and music and television) as much as the next couch potato, probably more.

"And I wouldn't steal content for any reason, in part because I make a living generating a fair amount of it.

"But it's worth remembering that the film industry initially opposed the video cassette recorder and the introduction of DVDs, platforms that became very lucrative businesses for them and remarkable conveniences for the rest of us.

"Given both Congress's and the entertainment industry's historically wobbly grasp of technology, I don't think they should be the ones re-engineering the Internet.

"The rest of us might have to just hold our noses and learn enough about SOPA to school them in why it's a bad idea."

(read here: http://mobile.nytimes.com/article?a=888507 )