Pipa sopa

[merrylander]

When SCOTUS decided that bribery was legal, when noknock trashed the 4th and 6th Amendments, when they wrote the Patriot Act, when a newer version of SCOTUS decided that corporations are people, when both parties in Congress keep twisting the rules so that the rich get richer and the rest of us get squat. Yeah, it is time for third or even a fourth party.

[hillbilly]

Well they gave it up ( at least for a while ). 13 million people took the time to sign a petition ( myself included ) against it.

Didn't a HUGE site with 150 million users get taken down early today... without the crap bills they were trying to pass? That tells me that they didn't need them and were trying to blow smoke up our asses so we'd miss the fine print that would sneak up on us later.

[Charles]

Hate to burst everyone's bubble, but if they don't get us before the election while everybody's watching, they'll get us AFTER the election while everybody ain't.

The fuckers are going to do it, one way or another.

IMHO

Chas

[bhunter]

Originally Posted by hillbilly

Well they gave it up ( at least for a while ). 13 million people took the time to sign a petition ( myself included ) against it.

Didn't a HUGE site with 150 million users get taken down early today... without the crap bills they were trying to pass? That tells me that they didn't need them and were trying to blow smoke up our asses so we'd miss the fine print that would sneak up on us later.

Yes. Megauploads, a New Zealand operated and Hong Kong headquartered company, was taken down yesterday and several people arrested. In response, Anonymous.com took down the RIAA, Universal, MPAA, and DOJ websites.

http://www.cato-at-liberty.org/the-i...eid=fbc79e9841

We will see what happens next. Interestingly, Obama's against, all GOP candidates are against, but the DNC Chair Wasserman-Schultz is for the SIPA SOPA legislation. Lamar Smith a republican out of Texas is the primary driver of the legislation.

The legislation was quite infantile in its methods and written far to broadly. The idiots might try to slip something through, but, for now, there is too much negative publicity.

It is often missed that the underlying technology was meant to survive a nuclear war and still have open communication channels.

[bobabode]

Originally Posted by Caminokid

I feel like we are losing all our rights. Is the bill of rights still any good? They are talking social networks are also effected. Places where you download things...let put Audio Karma in this. There is alot of us there that do download manuals for equipment...will this effect us too? It looks as though there is alot against it...but what about the unknowns? They could turn the tables bad really quick.

Hey Caminokid welcome! Bill of Rights was Oliver Cromwell'd a couple weeks ago. Corpse was dug up and executed.