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According to THIS guy, c/net DISTRIBUTED the piracy software that they are now fighting against!!!!
Something STINKS about SOPA.
It’s not about PIRACY-it’s about POWER.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WJIuYgIvKsc&feature=related
Dropping the DNS provision is good. But SOPA still needs to be dropped entirely.
It’s all about power. Dangerous power that could easily be abused. So why give it to them?
The goal is for SOPA to be destroyed. Anything else is incremental.
Completely unaffected is the part of the bill that will allow the gvt to shutdown FR if they want to.
oh, I know they need a “reason.” But that’s never stopped them before.
Intrinsic in all these idiot laws that attempt to “protect” us from the big bad internet is the governments overwhelming desire and need to feel they are in control of everything. They can’t stand that a single thing may be outside their jurisdiction. It’s a power-trip thing.
Sure you can trust government. Ask any Indian.
It’ll be put back in during conference or through a bureaucracy.
Stop it or regret it. There’s no need to regulate the Internet. It’s doing fine without the government. You’ll never end pirating, just drive it out of business with a better business model.
If the domain name is blocked, just use the ip address.
This is a start. The whole damn bill needs to be trashed along with any members of congress and the admin that supported this crappy bill.
9. Big Brother Internet: The coming year will be the beginning of the end of Internet Freedom: a battle between the governments and the people. We predict in 2012 governments will propose legislation requiring Internet users to present the equivalent of a driver’s license and/or bill of health to navigate cyberspace. For the general population it will represent yet another curtailing of freedom and level of governmental control.
Parts are starting to fall off it. Keep firing! Don’t let up until you see it going down in flames!
Best recent discussion on the subject, for the informed intelligent citizen who has a smidgen of technical knowlege :
NOT enough. KILL SOPA and start over, as Darrell Issa has said. I don’t trust Lamar Smith. He yanked Steve King’s seniority and made immigration softie Elton Galleghy the immigration sub chairman. then wrecked the E-Verify bill by adding provisions to kill AZ, AL and GA’s immigration laws. Now this crap. Lamar needs to go, as does the despicable loser Boehner.
LAMAR SMITH IS A WHORE.
CNET News stringer is a whore’s whore for writing the headline as seen above.
This is NOT a victory.
FreeRepublic ceases to exist if SOPA is passed into law.
EVERY website that freeper news junkies patronize will cease to exist if SOPA is passed into law due to SOPA’s fascist provisions.
And now back to your regularly scheduled Saturday programming.
White House Says It Opposes Parts of Two Antipiracy Bills
By EDWARD WYATT
Published: January 14, 2012
WASHINGTON — The Obama administration said Saturday that it strongly opposed central elements of two Congressional efforts to enforce copyrights on the Internet, all but killing the current versions of legislation that has divided both political parties and pitted Hollywood against Silicon Valley.
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Lamar Smith seems like the kind of guy who could sweep the floor at the local Wal-Mart if given constant supervision and short working hours, so why in the world has he been elected to Congress?