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What Is SOPA?? Every other tweet today has been about SOPA and American Censorship Day. If you haven't been following tech news closely, you probably have no idea what either of those things mean. Here's a breakdown of what's going on and why everyone is so concerned. What is SOPA? SOPA stands for the Stop Online Piracy Act. They are well-intentioned. The issues with SOPA: The Electronic Frontier Foundation describes SOPA as the "blacklist bill" because it would "allow the U.S. government and private corporations to create a blacklist of censored websites, and cut many more off from their ad networks and payment providers." That means the Attorney General would have the power to cut off select websites from search engines like Google. SOPA only allows targeted sites five days to submit an appeal. What tech companies and innovators are saying about SOPA: The heavy regulation SOPA implies isn't sitting well with many of tech's best and brightest. What is American Censorship Day?

W3Schools Online Web Tutorials HTML Help and Tutorials How does a Web page work? Well, the odds are you're sitting at your computer looking at this Web page through a browser. Most likely you're using a browser called Microsoft Internet Explorer, Google Chrome, Opera, Firefox, or Safari. It doesn't matter which browser you use, as long as you're happy with it. What is HTML? What is a URL? What do I need to get started? Editor: an editor is basically just a place to type in your HTML code so that you can send the file to your Web host.

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