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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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... I want to perform cranial activities with Tuesday Weld!!
(Score: 2, Insightful) by jelizondo on Saturday May 10 2014, @04:56AM
Many people think that disregard for laws amongst the elite is recent, but that is nothing new. They believe the U.S. of A. was different from other countries. Read your history, it was this way in the time of the Greeks and the Romans and it was this way in the U.S. of A. from the very founding of the country.
The big difference is that now the news travels around the world in minutes, and people tend to think things are getting worst. (Check the availability heuristic, Daniel Kahneman [wikipedia.org].)
The way I see it, is either people will get off their couches and use this new-found power of the Internet to bring elected representatives to behave and a true and wonderfull democratic period will ensue or they will continue to watch TV and not give a damn, making the elite impervious to limited criticism.
Now get off your couch and don't even think about hanging around my lawn!