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SOPA : Undead and Loving It

posted by Woods on Saturday May 10 2014, @02:00AM   Printer-friendly
from the my-favorite-acronym-that-sounds-like-Mario-asking-for-cleaning-supplies dept.

Blackmoore writes:

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: 5, Interesting) by Rune of Doom on Saturday May 10 2014, @04:35AM

    by Rune of Doom (1392) on Saturday May 10 2014, @04:35AM (#41481)

    It's long past being a matter of politics or which side you prefer. At least, for sane human beings it is. America's institutions are broken and dysfunctional, and it's pretty clear that they will never be fixed in any real sense. The only questions left are how long things can keep going before the whole thing comes apart (around 15 years is my best guess), how bad the crash will be (hopefully no worse than Orlov's mid-State Three), and how much damage will be done by the shockwaves around the world (not devastating, I hope/guess).

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  • (Score: 4, Insightful) by The Mighty Buzzard on Saturday May 10 2014, @11:38AM

    by The Mighty Buzzard (18) Subscriber Badge <themightybuzzard@proton.me> on Saturday May 10 2014, @11:38AM (#41558) Homepage Journal
    You're too optimistic of the American people. I'd guess no less than 20 years and likely closer to 50. The state will not allow itself to collapse. It will bleed the people for life support first and we simply have not bred any generations of fighters to stand up to it since WWII. The closest we've come are the Gen-Xers and they're more cynical and nihilistic than angry. Whatever generation does finally stand up and say fuck this noise is going to have to be willing to bleed and die for their cause; the entrenched, corrupt power structure will not willingly or easily give up power.
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