According to the UN, in the past millennium 10,000 books have been translated into Arab, the same number as are translated into Spanish every year. In a region where 284 million people live, the bestsellers are books selling 5,000 copies. In countries whose governments range between military dictatorships and Islamic dictatorships, a man puts his life in jeopardy by translating and publishing on the Internet liberalism’s classic, ancient and modern texts.

The intention is make intermediaries, read Internet service providers, responsible for the music and movies people download. The potential consequences of this socialist, in the most Cuban sense of the word, bill lie in forcing companies to pay for this surveillance, essentially having to spy on their users to comply with the law, and, later to meet the higher costs, raise access fees.