SOPA

[Bond]

Apparently a few legislators will attempt to tack it onto an anti-child-pornography bill sometime in the future. Classy.

[Typhoid]

Originally Posted by Bond

Apparently a few legislators will attempt to tack it onto an anti-child-pornography bill sometime in the future. Classy.

Well, if you can't beat 'em, threaten them into opposing a bill that also has anti-child-porn attached to it.

[TheGame]

Originally Posted by Typhoid

Well, if you can't beat 'em, threaten them into opposing a bill that also has anti-child-porn attached to it.

Hopefully the media and people don't act stupid enough to let this slide.

Wait.. all the major media companies support this...

Ahem, hopefully the people aren't stupid enough to let this slide.

[TheSlyMoogle]

I don't think they'll let it slide.

[KillerGremlin]

I hope it doesn't slide, but like I said early in this thread...

There are just scary implications with SOPA. Rumor on the street is that SOPA is a guaranteed failure. However, SOPA is going to be attached to the end of some "Stop Online Child Pornography Act" that congress will be unable to vote against (because who is going to vote against stopping child porn).

Ultimately you figure this is going to get passed at some point. SOPA is less interesting to 99% of Americans than the Kardashians.

A part of me feels like this country deserves what it has coming. 80% of the lazy fucks in this country don't vote. So this is what you get. Congress with an all time disapproval rating, and this SOPA bill that is going to end the Internet as we know it.

I stand by that statement. I think most Americans are too preoccupied to care. The fact that SOPA is being called the "anti-piracy" bill by news outlets is upsetting too. So far every news story I have seen makes it sound like people are in favor of piracy...

The only way I see prolonged defeat of the legislation in this bill is if a company like Google:

1) Blacks out ALL their services for a day; no Gmail, no blogspot, no Google Voice, no Android, no hosting, NOTHING

2) Google has a press conference where they discuss how much information they have. Google is a scary entity. They know what type of strange porn you search for, they know about your web browsing habits. But MOST importantly: they also know what strange porn your Congressman looks at. They know what Obama searched for.

Transparency always wins. If Google becomes a transparent entity...then everyone gets their grievances aired our.

Kind of like in Mean Girls.