“Rick Santorum”, DEFINATLY NOT ready for a Seat @ the Big People’s Table.
Rick Santorum would be proud to sign such legislation if it landed on his desk. The man’s openly declared himself as a ‘culture warrior’ and sees it as the government’s duty to help enforce what he sees as desirable culture. Ergo, he’d be more than happy to use stuff like SOPA as a means to this end.
Rick Santorum is no friend of limited government and in his own words is opposed to so-called “radical individualism.” In his worldview, liberty is just a gateway to libertinism.
I am now withdrawing my support for Rick Santorum.
If he supports this, he is a dangerous man.
Isn't there anyone running for president of this country who actually, really and truly understands and believes in the concepts of personal freedom and individual self determination?
Al Frank,Barbara Boxer,Diane Fienstein and Lindsey Graham are supporters of this bill , enough said
"Stopped short" equates to his candidacy with this near-endorsement.
Thanks for this post. I have been watching Santorum, this is a complete turnoff.
Since when is the law (and thus “regulation”) NOT supposed to be concerned with theft (of which “piracy” is nothing other than a means to theft)???
In fact piracy IS THEFT and property rights are at the core of Conservative principals.
A “pirate” is one who attempts to take something while avoiding the costs-to-market-entry that had to be paid by the producers/owners of what the pirate takes, for nothing.
The idea that piracy is justified because technology makes it so much easier, and therefor it is the fault of the owners of the pirated goods, not the pirates, for not adopting a different business plan IS NOT A CONSERVATIVE OR FREE MARKET THEORY SOLUTION.
By the logic of the “its-not-the-pirates-fault” theory, piracy in the Mediterranean in the early 1800s was not the fault of folks like the “Barbary pirates”, but the fault of merchants who failed to build or man ships that could out run the pirates at sea.
Truthfully, online piracy is a direct result of the insanity of pricing out there. You can go to a Red Box and rent a movie for a buck and a quarter. If you digitally rent it, odds are you're going to end up paying at least three times that amount. Consider it - one requires a physical copy to be made, distributed, stocked in a machine, and then handle all the credit card transaction fees. The other simply requires clicking on a link and credit card transaction fees.
The digital copy gives no better production quality, offers far less features than the physical discs, yet costs more. It is encouraging piracy, just like they did when they distributed peer sharing software and told us which was best to steal music and movies with by comparing copyrighted content over multiple pieces of software. Forbid price fixing by media companies (the so called ‘licensing’), or commission sales (another form of price fixing.) If a physical DVD can be rented on a nightly basis for under a buck fifty, then no digital movie should ever cost more than a buck fifty, even less if provided by a cable provider for on-demand watching.
O.K.
Where do the OTHER two conservatives stand on this subject?
Go Newt!
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.
I had decided it was either Gingrich or Santorum. Any candidate that finds SOPA or any similar regimen acceptable is not acceptable to me.