For people who still don’t recognize that there’s a generational shift going on when it comes to how people view attempts to regulate the internet, communications and copyright law, they might want to start paying attention. According to the folks over at the Pew Research Center, the story of SOPA was the most followed story for people under 30 — even more than news about the Presidential election. That’s probably because SOPA/PIPA had much more of a likelihood of impacting their daily lives. Either way, it’s amazing to see politicians and SOPA/PIPA supporters still think that this was just a “vocal minority” complaining about the bill. Their ridiculously bad miscalculation in introducing ridiculously bad bills has now awakened a very large percentage of young people to these issues, in a way that won’t just go away. Amazingly, it wasn’t just people aged 20 to 30 who took an interest. The research showed that there was interest all the way down to the K-12 set as well.

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