Here’s the full list of the current co-sponsors for SOPA. If any of their opponents in next year’s election are paying attention, they should be using this as a key issue and reaching out to the internet community, ASAP. What happened to GoDaddy can happen to a politician in an instant:
Mark Amodei [NV2]
Joe Baca [CA43]
John Barrow [GA12]
Karen Bass [CA33]
Howard Berman [CA28]
Marsha Blackburn [TN7]
Mary Bono Mack [CA45]
John Carter [TX31]
Steven Chabot [OH1]
Judy Chu [CA32]
John Conyers [MI14]
Jim Cooper [TN5]
Ted Deutch [FL19]
Elton Gallegly [CA24]
Robert Goodlatte [VA6]
Tim Griffin [AR2]
Tim Holden [PA17]
Peter King [NY3]
John Larson [CT1]
Ben Lujan [NM3]
Thomas Marino [PA10]
Alan Nunnelee [MS1]
William Owens [NY23]
Ben Quayle [AZ3]
Dennis Ross [FL12]
Steve Scalise [LA1]
Adam Schiff [CA29]
Brad Sherman [CA27]
Lee Terry [NE2]
Debbie Wasserman Schultz [FL20]
Melvin Watt [NC12]
And here’s the list of Senators who are both supporters of PIPA and are up for re-election in 2012. Wikipedia lists who’s already registered to challenge them. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Senate_elections,_2012
Ben Cardin [Maryland]
Bob Casey [Pennsylvania]
Bob Corker [Tennessee]
Dianne Feinstein [California]
Kristen Gillibrand [New York]
Orrin Hatch [Utah]
Amy Klobuchar [Minnesota]
Bob Menendez [New Jersey]
Bill Nelson [Florida]
Sheldon Whitehouse [Rhode Island]
So is there any way to tell its probability of passing through all of Congress ? How likely is it to pass both the House and Senate with enough of a majority so that Obama cant veto it ? That last part is important since, though we can never count on obama to do the right thing, there is a good chance even he would know to vote agains tthis if it truly does what opponents fear it would.
And also, I was wondering where to go to find truly good unbaised info on what sites would be affected, in addition to the articles shown above . Would it actually be able to shut down all internet forums, and shut down sites providing subscriptions to articles from science/biology/physics/economics magazines and publications ? Protestors say it will and others insist that only those who flagrantly flaunt copyright laws, liek pirate bay or Sidereel, are in real danger. So how do we tell what sites are in danger and if the whole internet really is somehow in danger of being shutdown ? I mean, i cant imagine the latter would be the case-eventually COngress would get enough pressure so that they would be forced to add some kind of ammendment the sponsors who claim they are losing money from piracy would eventually lose far more of their income when if people had no access to sites where they coudl buy entertianment content.