Google rips Senate's online piracy bill: 'This is what is wrong with Washington'

Google is exhorting senators to oppose an online piracy bill, arguing it would threaten national security, shackle the Internet with regulations and imperil free speech.

The memo that is being circulated on Capitol Hill lists five reasons not to co-sponsor the legislation. It argues the bill puts at risk “the ability for free speech and the ability of political parties to spread their message” while creating a “thicket of new Internet regulations similar to the administration’s net-neutrality rules.” It also calls the legislation “a trial lawyer’s dream” and claims it seeks to “regulate the Internet.”