By Sylvia Bond – Apparently, Congress is working on approving a bill that would allow the government, at the behest of media companies, to shut down websites that it doesn’t approve of. Strictly speaking, the bill, if approved, would be focused on shutting down the internet sites of people who counterfeit or pirate copyrighted material. If media companies are allowed to do what they please, and to censor those who displease them, and I can imagine that they’d be quite, quite displeased with fan fiction and fandom as a whole, what will happen to free speech in fandom?
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