If You Want To Better Understand SOPA & PIPA, Here's An Article To Read
from the get-to-it dept
Last week, as I was writing my big post on the problems with SOPA & PIPA, Alex Howard, over at O'Reilly's Radar blog, was putting the finishing touches on a massive, but incredibly comprehensive discussion of both bills. If you're just waking up to this issue now and want a really complete analysis of what's going on and how we got here (and why you should be worried about both bills), it really is a fine place to start.
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Synopsis: Big Media bought politicians, now we're all doomed.
These bills don't come out of the blue. If you can't see the trend of increasing fascism and how this fits into it, then guess I can only envy your bliss.
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Re: Synopsis: Big Media bought politicians, now we're all doomed.
Ignorant bliss is enviable indeed! :oD
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Re: Synopsis: Big Media bought politicians, now we're all doomed.
The title of your post is under-inclusive, but it does capture the essence of at least one part of the compendium, the recent hearings before the House Judiciary Committee.
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Re: Re: Synopsis: Big Media bought politicians, now we're all doomed.
And cites source and examples.
Which further displays the growing realization and distaste for such blatant attempts at censorship and unscrupulous business practices.
Spread the word and do it with credibility.
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Re: Synopsis: Big Media bought politicians, now we're all doomed.
"I haven't read anything by these guys,, but I bet that what they say is this. Therefore, I will continue to ignore anything they actually say, and attack this opinion of them that I developed purely from my own prejudices."
Good for you! Unfortunately, bad for the rest of us, especially the ones who actually read the bill.
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Re: Synopsis: Big Media bought politicians, now we're all doomed.
Isaac Asimov, column in Newsweek (21 January 1980)
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Govts seek More, always...
Soon, law enforcement will start rounding up �enemy combatants� on US soil in the name of Home Land Security. Happened before, will happen again. Police are becoming more military oriented and are fighting transparency (videos, records and media �detaining� tactics).
Govt does NOT have your best interests at heart, history has proven it.
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Re: Govts seek More, always...
Revolution of one kind or another. When you become an autocracy, you can never relax control, which leads to a necessary revolution. Look at what happened in Libya and what is happening in Syria. Peaceful protests are working, in spite of state authoritarianism.
Cut that off, and you force people to combat you, and the people have lots of guns in America.
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Re: Govts seek More, always...
Heaven forbid that someone has nothing to do when nothing needs fixed.
The problem is, instead of actually doing what they should and examining the governmental services to see which ones should be removed, downsized, or adjusted to bring it in line with the world we live in, they want to keep what they have and add more so they are doing "something".
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that is correct dude above me. I gather you don't mind hollywood camped out on your proverbial lawn.
And nice word salad BTW. Are you done making us look obviously in the right yet?
Nigel
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Source: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-15888843
Now will ICE seize all assets from Merck & Co.? arrest their CEO's and bring them to justice?
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Re: Merck challenges Facebook
SOPA isn't meant for the little guys; plus, imagine the backlash when the entirety of Facebook is taken offline and the ICE page shows up. There would be worldwide riots as people couldn't play Farmville or [insert FB-only game here].
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They are a bit like the doctor making you take the ilol tasting medicine. You won't like it now,but you will feel. Better later!
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Wasting Billions on inefficient programs ($100B in US Medicare alone).
Giving the elected- top benefits and insider trading so they can become millionaires.
Passing laws that Censor the Internet, unjustly seize domains & crush transparency.
Create defective agencies: TSA, DOE, SEC-(2008), DOI �(MMS Oversight of Gulf spill), etc
Created monopolies with subsidies: Insurance-(McCarran-Ferguson Act), Ethanol, Solar panels, etc
Senate not passing a US funding bill since 2008 to shirk budgetary responsibilities & OVERSPEND by $1.5T a year.
What color is the sky of the world you live in AC?? Loser
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