WSJ The Latest Mainstream Press To Run Anti-SOPA/PIPA Opinion Piece
from the this-isn't-what-hollywood-expected dept
Add the Wall Street Journal to the list of mainstream publications writing about just how damaging SOPA and PIPA would be. Former WSJ publisher, and now columnist, L. Gordon Crovitz, has written an opinion piece trashing the bills as being nothing more than Hollywood trying to "strangle" the internet.These bills would go so far to protect copyright that they would strangle the Internet with regulation. The Web would be transformed from a permissive technology where innovation is welcome to one where websites are shut down first, questions asked later.Crovitz summarizes the situation by highlighting how frequently the entertainment industry has cried wolf in the past:
Hollywood is playing to stereotype, hoping to suppress technology as it did in 1982, when the late industry lobbyist Jack Valenti said the invention of the VCR was to the "American film producer and the American public as the Boston Strangler was to the woman home alone." Hollywood has since also fought DVD players, DVRs and MP3 players.While not the official position of the WSJ, it's good to see more mainstream pieces calling out the problems with SOPA and PIPA. It's really kind of amazing. The supporters of these bills really seemed to think they'd be approved without any real pushback. They're still trying to make such claims in our comments. The reality is that there's a growing public realization that a few big businesses who don't want to adapt are trying to saddle the innovation industry with regulations to slow down the pace of innovation. That goes against what most people want. Sooner or later, Congress is going to realize that you can't just vote for the bills that get the most lobbying dollars... if you won't be able to get the votes of your constituents when election season rolls around.
Technology makes many things possible, good and bad. One thing that seems a mission impossible is having laws keep up with the pace of change on the Internet. Hollywood's effort to create a different story line for the future of the Web is a horror show. Lawmakers should walk out.
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Yes, victims of lawbreakers are the ones that need to "adapt".
"hey you, rape victim over there, stop complaining and learn to adapt."
LOL
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Is that what you're talking about?
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LOL
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For example, you could've said something like -
hey you, road kill over there, stop complaining and GTFOOMW.
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Suddenly you're with the "mainstream" press?
But I'll stick with opinion that the fix is definitely in so the Establishment organs are now free to criticize it. -- Took 'em a month to get excited? Phooey. -- Look for its passage right before Congress rushes off for holidays.
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Can you imagine the crap storm that would ensue for the reps that voted for it?
They're already gun shy. The last the thing they need is the whole Internet supporting their primary challengers.
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Here's a bigger question... When they're voted out, would the next reps repeal it?
Leahy's out of touch reply that 40 Senators support this, while the rest of the world does not, says that these Senators need a dose of reality because they will still try to support bad legislation.
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DMCA Repeal
Gee, yathink?
In all seriousness, this is the openly denied by SOPA's supporters' goal. Glad to see a MSM guy realize it.
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Oooh... I like this part.
Or having politicians even try to keep up with the technology that they are looking at blindly approving sweeping legislation over...?
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Yet another scripted meme that makes the op-ed one big slanted fail.
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Thanks for contributing Captain Obvious. Insightful as usual.
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http://www.forbes.com/sites/scottcleland/2011/11/28/sopa-opponents-bogus-net-neutrality-compa risons/
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I especially liked that quote :)
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http://www.forbes.com/sites/larrydownes/2011/11/28/the-revolt-against-congresss-new-interne t-piracy-proposals/
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Let's hope.
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This may or may not be heavy handed.
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/11/28/1040530/-Congress-is-close-to-destroying-the-in ternet-%28no-hyperbole%29
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Of course they support website rape by the broadbrush terrorist pirates with their $100M movies.
It's because they refuse to think analog. And Google.
Vote yes for America!
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Elvis Costello incites piracy!
Source: http://www.elviscostello.com/news/steal-this-record/254
In another quote:
Source: http://boingboing.net/2011/11/28/one-percenter-asks-have-you.html
Well, to that one I have to answer that aside from Einstein that was an office clerk, Pitagoras that probably founded the first socialistic society in written history, Archimedes, Leonardo Da Vinci(a bastard son that never got formal education), William Thomson(a.k.a. Lord Kelvin was the son of a farmer) and probably more than half the founders of the 500 biggest companies today no there was never anybody great that came from the 99%.
All of this ignoring the great names of today like Steven Hawkins, many many mathematicians including one Russian guy(Gregori Perelman) that lives in poverty and didn't take the million dollar award.
The more people get smart the more they realize that you can always live with only the basics apparently only the stupid ones are the ones that pursue the bling bling mentality.
Wealth should be a consequence of work well done, not some entitlement line of reasoning, trying to slice work into layers to make it easier to others to claim they are great is just not what the world needs, the world needs people who understand the whole dynamics between markets(people) and production, not crazy assumptions of what it should be, reality will always win that battle.
And SOPA is just another proof that stupid people are the ones trying to gain control without having to do any real work.
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Makes you so more credible and reliable. I just shed a tear.
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2) Nice anonymity. Be a shame if something happened to it (Like SOPA).
3) You consistently fail to address any even remotely valid criticisms of SOPA, just going with "chubby". I, for one, like chubby people, but you clearly don't.
4) Please, raise your discourse or bugger off back to Achin' Asshole, Alaska. After all, your view is becoming more and more marginalised every single day.
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