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SOPA : Undead and Loving It

posted by Woods on Saturday May 10 2014, @02:00AM   
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.

• Re:American political and legal systems are broken (Score: 4, Insightful) by The Mighty Buzzard on Saturday May 10 2014, @11:38AM

  by The Mighty Buzzard (18) <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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