SOPA

[Coach McGuirk]

Senator Hatch drops co-sponsorship of PIPA and will vote no to move the bill forward next week.

[Pheidippides]

Senator Hatch drops co-sponsorship of PIPA and will vote no to move the bill forward next week.

Well that's good news.

[HuskyFreeNorthwest]

posole with an S and without Fritos. no debate.

I would have gone with a sopapillas.

[Katy Lied]

I like to think that my email to Orrin this morning did the trick.

[cougjunkie]

ESPN supports SOPA yet Bill Simmons has committed 98 SOPA violations on Grantland so far.

[wuapinmon]

posole with an S

Mumpsimus!

[Uncle Ted]

While it looks like SOPA and PIPA are dead (for now) here is Clay Shirky on why they are a bad idea...

[YOUTUBE]vIuZU9q55XU[/YOUTUBE]

[Katy Lied]

Am I the only one amused by Uncle Ted linking to Ted.com?

[Moliere]

While it looks like SOPA and PIPA are dead (for now) here is Clay Shirky on why they are a bad idea...

I'm anti-PIPA but I'm pro Pippa!



I bet my linking of this picture would be against SOPA

Am I the only one amused by Uncle Ted linking to Ted.com?

Nope

[Moliere]

[Surfah]

SOPA explained:

[SCcoug]

Wow I never thought that Dodd would come right out and admit he was buying Congressmen on behalf of the MPAA.

Those who count on quote 'Hollywood' for support need to understand that this industry is watching very carefully who's going to stand up for them when their job is at stake. Don't ask me to write a check for you when you think your job is at risk and then don't pay any attention to me when my job is at stake

http://www.techdirt.com/articles/201...y-bought.shtml

[Uncle Ted]

Well, so much for killing SOPA in congress... Obama may be making it an executive order instead:

[The executive order] would create a new critical infrastructure cybersecurity council, which would be run by the Homeland Security Department and include representatives from the departments of defense, justice and commerce, and national intelligence office. The group would submit a report to the president to assess threats, vulnerabilities and consequences for all critical infrastructure sectors.

The draft order also allows federal agencies to propose new regulations or broaden existing ones, based on recommendations from the Commerce Department’s National Institute of Standards and Technology. …

Republicans and the Chamber of Commerce opposed the Senate bill that would have implemented a similar, voluntary program because they said it would lead to costly rules and regulations and would burden companies without reducing the risks. Obama and senior national security officials said minimum security requirements were needed so that companies would protect critical infrastructure.

Obama has been dogged during the presidential campaign by Republicans who claim his administration is anti-business.

http://jdnash.com/2012/09/sopa-is-no...ecutive-order/

Note: this “similar” legislation that Congress tried to sneak though in January was not stopped “by industry concerns”: it was stopped by a massive rage of the American Citizenry who took to Internet, Email, and Telephones to express their outrage to such an extent that the Congressional websites and telephones were overwhelmed and actually quit working. This atrocity died because the Congress shrunk back in terror at the degree of public rage their actions provoked. This legislation allowed the President to unilaterally shut down any web site he did not like simply by having a business friend claim it “has copyrighted material” — no naming the material in particular, no proof the material really is there, no proof that the web site owner does not have permission to use the material or outright own the material himself, and absolutely no warning or contact with the web site owner — a totally invisible, under the table, behind the back censure to allow a politician that does not happen to like the First Amendment to circumvent it, The only recourse the publisher who owns the web site has is to sue and prove his innocence — you read that right, no longer innocent until proven guilty, no longer proven beyond a reasonable doubt, the accused is assumed guilty because he is accused and must prove his own innocence. How convenient for a reign of tyranny! How repugnant for a Democracy!

This insistence by the White House that it alone shall unilaterally decide who is allowed to have a web site and what they are allowed to write is extremely dangerous. When the present administration does not get everything it wants, and is forbidden by Constitutional Law to have what it wants, then the White house simply circumvents Constitutional Law, making themselves to be above Law, and our Executive decides to illegally make himself our un-elected and unauthorized Legislator and Judge. He enforces his draconian mandates through his own version of zee SS, the Department of Homeland Security. From illegal searches of Citizens in Airports to demanding the appropriations bill for our military circumvents due process for any citizen “suspected” by him of being a terrorist, to secretly requiring security companies that install alarm and access control systems to wire those systems so that they automatically forward all private system data to the federal government for review, to deploying drones to spy on and potentially attack Citizens at home, the Department of Homeland Security has repeatedly demonstrated that it considers itself above all law.