WordPress officially opposes the introduction of the Stop Online Piracy Act and Protect IP Act (SOPA/PIPA act) according to a blog post published yesterday.
The Stop Online Piracy Act, SOPA, has split the technology industry. Dell, Microsoft, MacAfee and others want it passed to protect their copyrights while Google, Yahoo!, Twitter, and Facebook believe it to be a threat to the free web. But just what is SOPA?
Facebook, Google, Yahoo!, Mozilla, LinkedIn, Twitter, eBay, AOL, and Zynga have jointly written to the House of Representatives' Committee on the Judiciary to "express concern" at the proposed SOPA bill.
Twitter has already hired a number of staff for its Dublin office, Tony Wang (@tonyw ) the General Manager of Twitter UK (@twitterUK) said today but he wouldn't be drawn on what type of jobs.