SOPA Author Attacks Wikipedia, Schedules Debate on Bill

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SOPA: Black out

Unless you want the US Government “starting” the first step to controlling the information “You” are allowed to see or receive, YOU MUST get involved.
Freedom of information and outside interactions is the first thing a domestic abuser or a Government does to control and isolate YOU.
Once your source of information is restricted you can slowly be feed a selected philosophy of news. That is what is being attempted now in the US.

YOU! Right NOW! Not in the future should be, must be the defender of informational freedom. It takes all Americans to defend “The Freedom of the press” which is the bedrock of this Republic.

Lamar Smith is a pawn of BIG MONEY.

No more free porn. That should be enough to get the neutrals against SOPA. However, on a serious note, I live in a country where the internet is censored and trust me, it is not a good thing.

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SOPA goes Hand in Hand with NDAA. Bloggers and anyone posting anti-government comments will disapear.

Oh Lamar Smith you are so cute with your outdated fears of the interwebs and not noticing the hypocrisy of controlling information and being old to have grown up around Red Scare times. I guess he didn't hear how Communist Russia loved to control information isn't that adorable!
(Sarcasm)

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-Edited by Lamar S. Smith R-TX H.R. 3261

I don't see how watching a show I missed two months ago on a video-viewing website is a harm to the MPAA...

Looks like the author is going to have to find another way to keep the public down. It was a good try though.

If you look at the players, this issue is CORPORATIONS against users (the people), where once again the gov't has chosen to back the corps.

Like about everything else in the USA, SOPA and PIPA are about protecting the interests of the super rich. Fight your own battles, corporations!

Honorable Representative Lamar Smith, Name one time in the history of the US that the Government has known when to stop at what they say the original intent was. I can answer that for you, NEVER. You politicians will twist that which ever way you want. Don't like what is being written about you or your peers, shut them down. The only other reason I can think of for this bill, other than protecting yourselves, is that you owe the big money and this is what they want. If their copy rights and patents are so important to them, explain why we the tax payers are the one protecting their property?

Congress as become the lackey of Big Business.

"The bill will not harm Wikipedia, domestic blogs or social networking sites."
Using the same rhetoric: War is peace. Ignorance is strength. Freedom is slavery - George Orwell

It's a new Freedom! Why aren't all of you excited? Congress may just give us the "freedom" to be 'Allowed to View" internet content. Wow ! /s

Seriously though, do the Hollywood producers and Celebrities need to be protected ? The NFL ? Gosh, we saved the too big to fail banks, now we are being forced to provide special protection for a certain class of content providers. This legislative attempt to tame the internet will make Sarbanes-Oxley look cheap.

SOPA has everything to do with using your tax money to protect the profits of the members of the RIAA and MPAA, and little to do with protecting intellectual property. If online piracy was something that didn't hurt corporations, but only harmed independent film maker and musicians, then there wouldn't be a bill at all, and the politicians would be saying "It's not our job to protect your creations, take them to civil court." But as soon as lobbyists and money gets involved suddenly it's vital to stop these horrible crimes. Independent artists know that while online theft is an issue, the authors of this bill couldn't give a #$%$ about anything but their own profits. (in fact if independent artists were driven out of business the RIAA would stand up and cheer, more money for them.)

We don't want the bill marked up, we don't want it period. I'm tired of the new police state.

I thought Repubes were for "less government looking over our affairs, telling us what to do, blah blah..."?

I'm willing to pay a reasonable amount of money for creative content, provided most of it ends up with the artist. I think nine people out of ten think that way. If those that are supposed to gather the cash for artists would not put so much in their own pockets and would stop making things so complicated for artists as well as the general public, people would be even more agreeable than that.

Virtually unknown congressman from Oklahoma rails against Wikipedia, the third most trafficked website on the internet. Good luck with that one, Lamar.