Clay Shirky’s TED Talk on Why SOPA & PIPA Are a Bad Idea

by Rusty Blazenhoff at 8:53 AM on January 20, 2012

Internet writer and professor Clay Shirky recently presented Defend Our Freedom To Share or Why SOPA is a Bad Idea, a fascinating 12-minute TED Talk that is “a call to defend our freedom to create, discuss, link and share, rather than passively consume”. The speech was recorded at the TED offices on January 17, 2012.

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