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What Is SOPA? Startup Offers One-on-One Tutorials

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Wikipedia, Reddit and MoveOn.org have committed to blacking out their sites on Wednesday in protest of SOPA and PIPA. But the average person on the street still hasn’t heard those bills’ names.

Just why is it making Internet companies so upset?

Tutorspree founder Aaron Harris is one of many who can’t articulate the reasons behind the backlash to his satisfaction — but he matches tutors and students for a living. He launched a new website on Tuesday that sets up self-proclaimed SOPA/PIPA experts with people who want to learn more about SOPA and has signed himself up as a student.

“If the internet is going to be blacked out tomorrow,” Harris says, “it's a good time for people in [the tech] community to explain SOPA to just one person.”

Anyone who signs up on the “Explain SOPA” website to teach or learn will receive an email on Wednesday with a match’s contact information. As with Tutorspree’s standard service — which hosts about 4,000 tutors of various topics– they can then arrange a private SOPA/PIPA lesson themselves.

Tutorspree isn’t screening for quality or bias in its SOPA tutors, but the service is free.

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