SOPA Is So Bad, Political Cartoonist Comes Out Of Retirement To Create New Comics Warning About It

from the get-your-censor-on dept

Tue, Dec 20th 2011 3:03pm — Mike Masnick

David Rees became a well known political cartoonist about a decade ago, but he eventually gave it up for other pursuits... until SOPA came along. Last week he announced that he was coming out of retirement in order to launch GetYourCensorOn.com, with a bunch of comics and images related to SOPA. Here are just a couple, but you can click the link above to see more.

I still don't think the politicians supporting this mess realize what they've stirred up online...

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Filed Under: censorship, copyright, david rees, protect ip pipa, sopa

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Jay (profile), 20 Dec 2011 @ 2:14pm

New Year's Resolution
Every supporter of Sopa is not voted into office after 2012.
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Jay (profile), 20 Dec 2011 @ 2:14pm

New Year's Resolution
Every supporter of Sopa is not voted into office after 2012.
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- Someantimalwareguy (profile), 20 Dec 2011 @ 2:32pm
  
  Re: New Year's Resolution
  Every supporter of Sopa is voted OUT of office IN 2012.
  
  There, fixed that for you...
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  - Anonymous Coward, 20 Dec 2011 @ 9:32pm
    
    Re: Re: New Year's Resolution
    A vote for SOPA gets you no VOTAs.
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    - Hephaestus (profile), 21 Dec 2011 @ 6:33am
      
      Re: Re: Re: New Year's Resolution
      God, that is horrible ...
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  - harbingerofdoom (profile), 21 Dec 2011 @ 5:06am
    
    Re: Re: New Year's Resolution
    nothing ever changes because voters have forgotten they should not be voting for charisma.
    
    there... fixed that for you.
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Mike42 (profile), 20 Dec 2011 @ 3:37pm

Great.
I checked out his site, and I really like his stuff. Now I'm gonna have to buy his collections.

(Booya! Blue and Joe, us freetards buy stuff, too!)
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- vegetaman (profile), 20 Dec 2011 @ 7:29pm
  
  Re: Great.
  These are great. Hopefully he keeps it up.
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randyme (profile), 20 Dec 2011 @ 3:52pm

voting out
I created a mobile website to check the records of your local congresspeople on this vote. For now you can contact them with it, but after any votes are cast they'll show up next to the name & photos.

Very efficient to vote based on your location! http://sopatrack.com - optimized for mobile for use at the polls.
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- robin, 20 Dec 2011 @ 4:46pm
  
  Re: voting out
  +1 for jquery mobile, and +100 for the effort!! thx!
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- Rekrul, 20 Dec 2011 @ 5:20pm
  
  Re: voting out
  What am I supposed to be seeing at this web site? Because all I see is a message explaining what the web site is supposed to be for. I even looked at the page source to make sure some content wasn't hidden, and there doesn't appear to be anything there.
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  - PaulT (profile), 21 Dec 2011 @ 1:17am
    
    Re: Re: voting out
    Maybe you have some kind of script blocker that's hiding some content? If not, there's a big red button that says "find your congresspeople" - try that.
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    - Hephaestus (profile), 21 Dec 2011 @ 6:34am
      
      Re: Re: Re: voting out
      He is probably using an old version of IE
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  - randyme (profile), 21 Dec 2011 @ 5:50am
    
    Re: Re: voting out
    You should be able to click the red button at the top & it will geo-locate you & find your local congresspeople.
    
    If you're not in the US, I'm not sure what will happen... Probably will find the congresspeople on the closest coast of the US?
    
    Also you'll probably need to be using a modern, up-to-date browser.
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- harbingerofdoom (profile), 21 Dec 2011 @ 5:13am
  
  Re: voting out
  like it.
  tankyouveddymuch!
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- DannyB (profile), 21 Dec 2011 @ 6:13am
  
  Re: voting out
  So you're saying you've created a 'rogue' website that will be taken down under SOPA.
  
  Good thing the courts are preemptively enforcing SOPA by honoring arbitrary take down requests.
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- DannyB (profile), 21 Dec 2011 @ 6:15am
  
  Re: voting out
  Why should politicians be worried about getting voted out?
  
  Haven't most precincts started using computerized voting equipment with no audit trail?
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Anonymous Coward, 20 Dec 2011 @ 3:54pm

"I still don't think the politicians supporting this mess realize what they've stirred up online..."

I still don't think the politicians give a flying f*** about what the sheeple think.
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- demented, 20 Dec 2011 @ 9:19pm
  
  Re:
  Of course they don't. And like the British gov't of the late 1700s, they WON'T until the people make it a huge problem for them.
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  - TtfnJohn (profile), 20 Dec 2011 @ 10:11pm
    
    Re: Re:
    just a widdle detail here. It was largely the Lords and nutty old King George III who didn't care what the colonists wanted or cared about. The Commons was stuffed full of supporters of the revolutionaries. Sadly it wasn't until 35 some odd years later that the Commons finally knackered the Lords so that something like what happened in America wouldn't ever happen again.
    
    It helped that a certain Queen Victoria was as disgusted with what the Lords and George the Nutty had done that where the Commons couldn't directly overrule the Lords, she did. The legal and full neutering of the Lords didn't really happen till the early 20th Century by which time no one really cared all that much what they thought.
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Kevin H (profile), 20 Dec 2011 @ 4:11pm

But I certainly hope that they GET THE POINT!
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NetworkAdmin, 20 Dec 2011 @ 4:38pm

I think they do
Read this interesting article on the several cases of what the Government, both local and national, have been up to in the last year or so:

http://endoftheamericandream.com/archives/first-amendment-under-attack-18-examples-of-how-the y-are-coming-for-our-free-speech
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Anonymous Coward, 20 Dec 2011 @ 5:54pm

He can go back into retirement now, he got his "get off my lawn" out.
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- TtfnJohn (profile), 20 Dec 2011 @ 10:34pm
  
  Re:
  Not for a while yet. You can get far more converts to the cause of stopping SOPA/PIPA while lampooning them and making fun of it all while at the same time educating people about the consequences.
  
  I detect some fear here.
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Anonymous Coward, 20 Dec 2011 @ 9:10pm

Just my view, but this person should either:

1. Read SOPA and Protect-IP for comprehension, or

2. Go back into retirement.

The last thing we need to have an accurate and meaningful discussion is one who has succumbed to misleading propoganda that relies on absurd hypothericals and buzz words.
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- TtfnJohn (profile), 20 Dec 2011 @ 10:13pm
  
  Re:
  Oh, he's intruding on the turf SOPA/PIPA apologists thought they had an exclusive on?
  
  Damned pirate!!!!
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- Anonymous Coward, 20 Dec 2011 @ 10:38pm
  
  Re:
  "The last thing we need to have an accurate and meaningful discussion is one who has succumbed to misleading propoganda that relies on absurd hypothericals and buzz words."
  
  Like the proponents of SOPA and Protect-IP?
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- PaulT (profile), 21 Dec 2011 @ 1:22am
  
  Re:
  So, yet again, an AC attacks an actual artist rather than provide any reason why his opinion is wrong. Of course, someone can't read the actual bills and come to the same conclusion as everybody else against it independently. If they don't toe the corporate line, they must be misled by lies - although, of course, you won't tell us how they're wrong.
  
  "propoganda that relies on absurd hypothericals and buzz words"
  
  Ah, you started reading your own posts? Well done.
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  - The Devil's Coachman (profile), 21 Dec 2011 @ 6:17am
    
    Re: Re:
    That is what douche bags do. Another candidate for some gonad crushing.
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anonymous, 21 Dec 2011 @ 1:12am

luckily, this post hasn't yet been censored!
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Emjay, 21 Dec 2011 @ 1:57am

I don't mean to be pedantic, but "hypothericals"??
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Toot Rue, 21 Dec 2011 @ 7:24am

No more complaining
"I still don't think the politicians supporting this mess realize what they've stirred up online..."

Actually, I'm sure they do. That's why they are trying to get this bill passed...
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Anonymous Coward, 21 Dec 2011 @ 10:57am

STOP THIS
Stop fucking around and STOP THIS.
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