Posted on 01/09/2012 12:13:27 PM PST by SeekAndFind
“I saw the clip, and he never said that they had to be *governmental* regulations.
Try doing some research next time.”
Thanks for your post.
The knee-jerk reactions from so-called conservatives are going to kill us.
We already have tons of laws and regulations regarding piracy.
SOPA has nothing to do with piracy.
We don’t need government in every damned aspect of our lives.
“It absolutely will. Under SOPA, the Attorney General can take down sites without a court order.”
“Can” is the operative word there, and it is not any Attorney General that I am trusting, but the courts, which will, in my opinion, provide injunctions and appeals against an Attorney General’s action when they agree that there is a good argument against the “chain of evidence” rationale where the “pirates” are not the site being shut down and the site that is has simply unknowingly allowed a link to the “pirates” to be placed, by a user onto their web pages some where. The SOPA law may have allowed such an extreme circumstance but I do not think the courts will accept it. The fact that the law allows certain actions without a court order will not stop the courts from weighing in against it, and there are plenty of judges who will chose to do just that.
Expect there is no trial,court order or anything before shutting down the website, send a dmca claim and valla freerepublic gone in a day
Yes trust the government what a great idea!
I had decided it was either Gingrich or Santorum. Any candidate that finds SOPA or any similar regimen acceptable is not acceptable to me.
So a guy running for POTUS is advocating regulations--just not government ones. What do you think he means?
Websites dealing with creative content could be self regulatory. A significant part of Santorum’s message is to have less government involvement by getting it out of the way of the private sector.
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