Did The White House Call For A New SOPA?
from the missed-that-one dept
On Friday, the White House's annual report on "IP enforcement" came out, and we noted the serious problems with the report. However, we did miss a little tidbit that Declan McCullagh picked up on. Hidden in the details of the report, it does suggest that we still need a "legislative solution" to offshore file sharing -- which was the point of SOPA/PIPA:"We believe that new legislative and non-legislative tools are needed to address offshore infringement."Now, the report also does reiterate what the White House said earlier during the SOPA/PIPA fight: that it would not support DNS blocking or other legislative efforts that harm the internet, but just saying that it supports some legislation at all seems pretty questionable. If anything, it's probably a wink and a nod towards Hollywood to try again, with something less overreaching. Of course, anything that's cooked up in the backrooms again simply isn't going to go over well, and (as I noted in my previous post on the report) it's a real shame that the White House doesn't even seem to acknowledge that the landscape and awareness on this issue has changed.
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It wont be hidden or in back rooms
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And thus was born the new ICE policy requiring all men and women in the agency wearing nothing but middrift shirts and belly button rings....
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So everyone at the agency would be sans pants and footwear?
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Translation:
"We need some sort of law that let's us shoot down those pesky 'pirate drones' people are talking about without any kind of due process."
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Heres an idea
How about we try to get our own laws in order first. When most of the population doesn't agree with the laws they are trying to pass to control us or anyone else in the world, how about the government consult the people and actually listen. Then we can arrive at much more reasonable laws. It would be a lot better than their current procedure of ask the public for opinions, then ignore everything they hear so they can pass some bill written by a lobbyist instead.
Or, and for the record, even when our laws do become much more reasonable instead of the copyright insanity that exists today, we STILL don't want our government trying to force our views down other country's throats.
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You want an end to the war on drugs? Well, we have a ton of people that have contracts.
You want less copyright law? Well, the movie and music industry are buying us.
You can't stop a good gravy train.
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Remember when we used to be able to be proud to be from this country, and it stood for something, and we were the good guys? Yea, I know, it was long before I was born, but those must have been some fun times.
Now, we're given choices between John Jackson and Jack Johnson, both of whom are in the pockets of the same lobbyists, told we have a "choice," and then blamed by the rest of the world when they pull shit like this because it's our "leaders."
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Either that or it was because I was young and not yet disillusioned with the system. Take your pick.
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After all, it worked for the PATRIOT act, it passed 99 to 1, only becoming controversial after it was passed. But once it passed, they simply HAD to keep on extending it again and again, despite protests over it's violations of civil rights. Because otherwise terrorists would attack us again within hours according to it's supporters, and who wants to get blamed for another terrorist attack!
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"Do you want the terrorists to win?"
"Won't someone think of the children?"
"What about American jobs?"
Build up enough false pressure and they can get legislators to pass anything.
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Will it include DNS filtering? Yes? Sweet, that supposed billions of dollars of damage will be kept out while people go find more European, Chinese and Canadian proxies so they can access "pirated" material! Amazing!
Will it involve DHS? You betcha, we're doing this for "national security". Oh, and we're throwing in the NSA, just to go piss you off.
Will it remove the 1st Amendment? You betcha, that was a stupid piece of shit George Washington did there! He certainly didn't have a brain, nor does the American public. Get used to it.
Will it fuck the DMCA whole? What was the answer? YES, YOU DUMBASS! The DMCA's takedown process makes us queasy. We want a faster way to do it, cheap, fast with no form of oversight. Like McDonalds.
Love,
--the MPAA, RIAA, and a fuckload of others.
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Check your history book, I think you mean George Mason.
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We don't need more legislation, but for the bulk of my lifetime the only concern Government has had consistently is how to expand itself, so why stop now? After all, more laws means more authority means more enforcement means more enforcers means more jobs! And who doesn't want the Government to create jobs in this economic environment?
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There go my 'marching hammers' flashbacks again.
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Sound theory :D
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Obama's White House
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All hail King "Just call me Daddy!" Obama!
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Their lying, I know because their lips are moving.
It may be an old joke but it's the truth.
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Inaguaration Day 2013
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-Kurt Vonnegut on Book Burning.
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