2. A woman in Utah uses Facebook to rescue herself and her 17 months old son. She posted a status that she should be rescued from her house where she was made a hostage. Facebook was her only resort to communicate. The woman hid in a closet to use her laptop.
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3. Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) is going to be one of the first things Obama will have to deal with in 2012. SOPA and PIPA are proposed laws that would, among other things, give media companies significant new tools to police pirated online content that appears on Web sites hosted outside of U.S. borders. It would also require U.S. companies that link or do business with them in the normal course of operations — sites such as Google, Yahoo and eBay’s PayPal — to cease doing so. For instance, Google might be forced by the courts or U.S. law enforcement agencies to stop providing search links to BitTorrent sites that host pirated copies of major motion pictures and television shows. It could go even further than that, by stopping U.S.-based Internet-service companies from allowing users to access any overseas site carrying pirated content. To read more - click here.
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