Lamar Smith MUST GO!
This bill if passed into law is the end of FreeRepublic.com .
Within weeks of implementation of the regulatory apparatus legislated in this bill, there will be hundreds of falsified complaints against each and every political website under the Jurisdiciton of the United States of America.
This bill will destroy everything that has been built here on FR and amongst various political and socio-political websites over the last 15 years.
This bill was specifically written to destroy ALL political speech on the internet.
And the Republicans are the ones railroading this through Congress.
It’s all over folks.
this bill is bad news but I think even FReepers have been downplaying it.
This shows how moronic the GOP leadership is.
This bill, pushed at the behest of Hollywood, does nothing for the GOP. The truth is that the publishers, movie moguls, studios, etc - they’re not about to start treating Republicans better in the press or movies.
So why is the GOP carrying water for these clowns? Unexplained. Why is the GOP willing to engender the fury of the conservative base when this results in the shut-down of various conservative web sites that have enabled any measure of conservative/Republican electoral success? Because the GOP leadership is packed to the rafters with morons and retards, that’s why.
SOPA is staunchly opposed by free speech and digital rights advocates, as well as top Internet portals such as Google, Facebook, Twitter and Wikipedia. In anticipation of the hearing, Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales is conducting a straw poll to gauge Wikipedian interest in a community strike -- a blackout of either the U.S. Wikipedia pages, or even the entire site. So far, 87 percent of respondents are in favor of a strike....IMO, the sponsors of the bill consider the muffling of protest to be a feature, not a bug.Here's a worst-case scenario free speech supporters say is entirely possible: Proxy servers such as those that aided the Arab Spring are also used to stream content that qualifies for copyright infringement. Shut down the proxy server for a SOPA violation, and the voices of protest could be muffled as well....
Where does this bill stand in the Senate? Do they have anyone willing to filibuster it?
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We apparently have the best congress that money can buy.