Santorum voices support for SOPA-like Internet regulation

Hotair ^ | 01/09/2012 | Tina Korbe

[microgood]

Nonsense. Ain’t gonna happen.

It absolutely will. Under SOPA, the Attorney General can take down sites without a court order.

But maybe you are one of those that think "We can trust them to do the right thing."

LOL.

[Sun]

“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.

[2111USMC]

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.

[Wuli]

“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.

[The Right wing Infidel]

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

[The Right wing Infidel]

Yes trust the government what a great idea!

[snowsislander]

Based on this poor response by Rick Santorum, I have decided to support Newt Gingrich.

I had decided it was either Gingrich or Santorum. Any candidate that finds SOPA or any similar regimen acceptable is not acceptable to me.

[j_k_l]

Santorum IS DONE

The damage he has done along with other Republicans that have supported this government power grab could cost them a great deal of support in 2012.

Stupid,stupid,stupid....

[Future Snake Eater]

I saw the clip, and he never said that they had to be *governmental* regulations.

So a guy running for POTUS is advocating regulations--just not government ones. What do you think he means?

[Lauren BaRecall]

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.