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on Saturday May 10 2014, @02:00AM
from the my-favorite-acronym-that-sounds-like-Mario-asking-for-cleaning-supplies dept.
from the my-favorite-acronym-that-sounds-like-Mario-asking-for-cleaning-supplies dept.
Cory Doctrow at bOing bOing brings us Congressmen ask ad companies to pretend SOPA is law, break anti-trust:
A murder of Congresscritters and Senators have told Internet ad-brokers that they expect them to behave as though SOPA passed into law (instead of suffering hideous, total defeat); they want the companies to establish a secret, unaccountable blacklist of "pirate" sites. The group comprises Congressmen Bob Goodlatte and Adam Schiff, and Senators Sheldon Whitehouse and Orrin Hatch. This isn't just a terrible idea, it's also an obviously illegal antitrust violation.
He also links Mitch Stoltz from the Electronic Frontier Foundation Who points out this is a violation of the Sherman Anti-Trust law.
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(Score: 4, Informative) by Reziac on Saturday May 10 2014, @03:56AM
Meanwhile in America, the usual excuse for lunacy is "This is how it's done in Europe."
Fact is we both copy the worst of each other. :(
And there is no Alkibiades to come back and save us from ourselves.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by davester666 on Saturday May 10 2014, @05:31AM
Implemented via "free trade" deals. "The other side insisted on it, and it's just a minor thing so we went along with it."
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Fluffeh on Saturday May 10 2014, @09:04AM
It makes it easier for the politicians to do what they (and by they, I mean the people that buy them) want that way. They copy (and often extend just a little) what was done on the other side of the pond.
(Score: 2) by Reziac on Saturday May 10 2014, @12:34PM
Yep, that's a good point.... Take advantage of the age-old fad of Exotic Foreigners. You can justify any sort of nonsense if only you can get your constituents to buy into "but they do it this way and it's so much better than how we do it".
And there is no Alkibiades to come back and save us from ourselves.