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Comics Alliance: The Dangers of SOPA, The Stop Online Piracy Act, to Comic Books and You
By Aaron Colter

--Colter believes that this bill is an attempt by the U.S. Government to prevent citizens from accessing sites that are outside of U.S. jurisdiction. Instead of attacking the sites head on, the government is trying to prevent the citizens from getting to the sites.
-With one of the provisions in SOPA intended to stop payment services from processing money to pirated sites and material, credit services such as Paypal, VISA, or Mastercard could be shut down on a national level. This would affect many comics readers who use these methods to pay for their products.
-With a greater emphasis on stopping piracy at the search bar, companies such as Google would be forced to almost completely overhaul their search engine in an attempt to disassociate itself with piracy and pirated products.
-Colter notes comics previous history with censorship problems, such as the Comics Code Authority label, and believes that since the comics industry was not directly targeted, the industry has not come together on a stance yet. However, these provisions to the internet would effect the entire comics industry in the long run.
-SOPA's aim to force advertisers to deny service to websites that violate its policies would, in addition to forcing companies like Google to overhaul their policies, constrain opportunities for up-and-coming talents from displaying their work.
-Though lawmakers and business conglomerates assure Americans that these regulations will not effect daily life, Colter notes the underlying political agenda behind SOPA's supporters and questions who the public can believe in this debate.
-Colter notes that to comics publishers and retailers, the risk of online piracy directly threatens their business and as such, support SOPA's passage. 
-Both comics writer Steve Niles and publisher Oni Press note SOPA gives unregulated power that can be used to suppress creators and their stories.
-Colter notes that so far, most comics blogs do not support SOPA's passage while comic publishers do indeed support it.