Stephen Downes

Knowledge, Learning, Community
Brian Lamb points out that while GoDaddy has been forced to retreat from its SOPA-supporting stance, no such pressure has been exerted on educational publishers. "It is well-understood by solid, well-meaning, mainstream organizations that the effects of the Act could be disastrous, and those solid, well-meaning, mainstream concerns have been waved away by ignorant lawmakers just as they always are... Yet among the official supporters of SOPA are pretty much all the major players in academic and educational publishing: Elsevier, Pearson Education, Cengage Learning, McGraw-Hill Education, Macmillan, Scholastic, et al..."

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