Even if these specific bills may be dead, like zombies rising from the dead, they will be back because the key phrase in all of this is “as written.”
Over the weekend, the Obama administration issued a potentially game-changing statement on the blacklist bills, saying it would oppose PIPA and SOPA as written, and drew an important line in the sand by emphasizing that it “will not support” any bill “that reduces freedom of expression, increases cybersecurity risk, or undermines the dynamic, innovative global Internet.”
Yet, the fight is still far from over. Even though the New York Times reported that the White House statement “all but kill[s] current versions of the legislation,” the Senate is still poised to bring PIPA to the floor next week, and we can expect SOPA proponents in the House to try to revive the legislation—unless they get the message that these initiatives must stop, now. So let’s take a look at the dangerous provisions in the blacklist bills that would violate the White House’s own principles by damaging free speech, Internet security, and online innovation:
Longish boring article about what positions/understandings could be taken. Don’t we have the entirety of the import with knowing the Whitehouse said “as written”? In most cases, isn’t this simply a public notice that the lobbyists have to push more money to Obama before it will be passed?
Still–no one in jail or prosecuted for the Financial Meltdown of 2008.
Scandalous.
OK, just this once I agree with #2.71828 bobbo the duck humping left handed proto-theist with long nose hair.
BORING.
Just go the The Oatmeal to understand this whole thing. And to be entertained, bien sur.
HAH!!! I am NOT left handed!!! You should take that back.
Obama Administration speaking with both sides of their mouth:
People got “emphasizing that it “will not support” any bill “that reduces freedom of expression, increases cybersecurity risk, or undermines the dynamic, innovative global Internet.” ” and cheered, but what for:
“…To minimize this risk, new legislation must be narrowly targeted only at sites beyond the reach of current U.S. law…”
in the same statement? For me this Obama statement absolutely demands “National Internet”.
Wikipedia, and other websites, to shut for 24 hours over US anti-piracy laws (ie–tomorrow all day==what will I do?)
http://newscientist.com/blogs/onepercent/2012/01/wikipedia-to-protest-us-anti-p.html?DCMP=OTC-rss&nsref=online-news
No law is ever truly enacted to a politician (they always figure it doesn’t apply to them) nor ever truly repealed. They’re looking for ways to bring back the Inquisition as we speak.
Repeat a law just because its a stupid idea? Give me a break.
They’re still pissed off about having to conform to the laws of gravity and they absolutely hate the absolute limit of the speed of light. (Some of them actually believe in the Star Trek FTL drive.)
Politicians hate being told that somethings are not negotiable.
Absolute zero? Nonsense!
300,000kps speed limit? Bullshit!
Plankt intervals? Crap!
It really pisses me off that anyone would think they need to control the Internet. It’s like thinking they need to control the air molecules because some of those molecules might contain “wrong” information or something. (And who’s to say what’s right or wrong when it’s just two dim wits talking?)
What Congress fails to recognize are acts that certain individuals commit. They then fail to allow effective prosecution of any criminal act under any existing law. So instead, these genius legislators who continue to impose crippling taxes, pass illegal acts like Obama care, and can’t even balance their own budget, now seem to think they need to monitor things in order to prevent any “unapproved act” from occurring. But it’s reality just an excuse to try and censor!
(It’s also a good example of the knee jerk reaction to 9/11 that continues since the only argument ever given in favor of idiotic laws like this is always the same: “to prevent terror.”)
I don’t how anyone else feels about this. I suspect most don’t like it. I also suspect that most aren’t bothering to do anything like call/write their Congressman in protest either. And that probably pisses me off even more!
wait does this mean Obama has done something right for the people by opposing (vetoing) these bills? Amazing! I’m sure any republican in that office would sign it in. I guess the RIAA and MPAA aren’t in Obama’s pockets after all. Or is he? Maybe he wants a more vague bill?
Said it before and I’ll say it again,Lars from Metallica destroyed
the internet,He had to get greedy open his big mouth open
the eyes of more greedy people who make gazillions of dollars
from others who don’t even go near a computer.There will always be someone who can’t afford movies,music…etc.Get people jobs!get people working!40 dollars to take my son to a movie…insanity.
In my day it was called bootlegging(Some bootlegs are better then live albums the record company’s produce) and in my opinion has never
had any effect on the all mighty dollar to be made.
Bad things are bound to happen when you bend over for the SOPA.I don’t pirate,we do without or pay for it online.I can do without a virus attached too a file.
So, is dvorak.org/blog going to black out for a day of protest?
1. Politicians are all lying scumbags, and
2. You’ll keep right on voting for them.
“But MY politician is DIFFERENT!”
Yeah.
Like good progressives, they want to ensure that they can shut down their political opponents.
COPA or whatever it might be called in the future, are just another way of turning the world into a two class economy. Rich and poor. Those who own and control all the content. And those who can’t afford to pay for very much of that content, when they’ve barely got the money to feed themselves.
And when that happens, the MPAA and RIAA will go to the government for a bailout, to keep themselves solvent, for the benefit of all mankind. But never lowering their costs, one penny. I’m certain, whether or not they get SOPA and PIPA passed. They will still be planning for a government handout, to compensate from all that piracy they imagine is behind their loss of sales. Even though it’s the shrinking middle class, that no longer buying their Justine Bieber CDs, or their 3D movie tickets.
SOPA Outrage Is Breaking the Senate’s Websites
Mark Begich (D – AK)? His site’s down completely. Barbara Boxer (D – CA)? Her is loading like it’s hosted on a Palm Pilot. And yes, Patrick Leahy (D – VT), you who co-sponsored PIPA—your site is all the way down. Dead. Gone.