Stop Online Piracy Act

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Originally Posted by Diff-chan

Nobody makes a long-ass post like you did without believing it. Stop pretending.

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I would.

Typing is pretty easy.

See, look.

In 1982 the great demon Mandrkak came to Alabama. While there he partook of many great meals of cornbread, BBQ, and Bud lite. After finishing his banquet of Alabama's finest, he traveled to the devil's crossing to entice men. After driving 4 hours in a Mercury, he finally arrived at the crossing. He pulled out his triple neck bass and began to play. People came from far and wide to see the demon play his heavy beats. One man in particular was very impressed with the demon and offered to trade the demon the life of his wife for the bass and his skills. The demon agreed knowing that the murder of the woman would damn the man. But little did the demon know that the woman was a Mormon and instead of murdering the woman, she married the demon. The demon was now in an open marriage with Fat Betty of Neshoba county. Betty Hoba they would call her. The man left town with his new won skills and bass and the demon was stuck in Desoto with ole Fat Betty.

See how easy that was? And I don't believe a word of it.

Voting was pushed back until early 2012. Id link but I'm on my phone.

This shouldn't even make it past committee.

What's the support for this looking like? Is it close?

All I know it's being discussed by children.

It'll pass. We're fucked

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Originally Posted by Thief Silver

This shouldn't even make it past committee.

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but it will

as for support, it looks like 3/4ths of that hearing was bought and paid for by big media/don't know any better as the people putting forward genuine concerns about obvious loopholes I could count on one hand, and every single amendment they put forth to make the bill not as sinister was shot down faster than jfk in dallas

there's a hopeful theory floating around that they're intentionally making it as comically evil as possible just so it gets put down all that much faster in the actual senate, where things matter

e: vvv

big money > being noisy, and it only works sometimes to quiet the public while still giving a big leash to the deep pockets (see: canadian telecommunications and the publics recent fight with bell/rogers/shaw about tiered/metered internet access)

Well, there's a few more months to get noisy about this shit, make it happen or it's on you.

If it does pass, there's always the hope that the Supreme Court could shoot it down. It's not very hard to frame this as a speech issue.

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Originally Posted by Thief Silver

Sorry, but there's more at stake and more represented in this country than just money. If you're worried about just money, you can still become rich in China.

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It's definitely a balancing act - it's not like capitalism or socialism are in and of themselves answers to problems.

I agree the loopholes should be closed so businesses have to pony up, and that lobbyists should be made public in Washington (not removed -- just transparent). A 30% business tax or capital gains tax is fine across the board if everyone is playing on a level playing field.

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Originally Posted by YellerDog

Well, there's a few more months to get noisy about this shit, make it happen or it's on you.

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Would be great if a large movement occupying locations could have used their time in the spotlight to create awareness of certain problematic issues. But I guess when you shit in bags at the side of the road you've got other problems to deal with.