SOPA and PIPA (2 Viewers)

[alstah]

Wikipedia Protest Blackout to SOPA+PIPA 18/01/2012:

"Imagine a World Without Free Knowledge - For over a decade, we have spent millions of hours building the largest encyclopedia in human history. Right now, the U.S. Congress is considering legislation that could fatally damage the free and open internet. For 24 hours, to raise awareness, we are blacking out Wikipedia"

Apparently Google's Home page and even Facebook might protest against SOPA and PIPA.

What are your thoughts on SOPA and PIPA? Will it destroy the internet forever?

 

[Blastus]

http://phetdreams.tumblr.com/post/15560868881/on-sopa I wrote this a while ago

 

[Examine]

http://www.politicalnewsnow.com/201...now-in-drivers-seat-media-maverick-cnet-news/

 

[funkshen]

these two acts are an unfortunate necessity in the eternal struggle against scoundrels and miscreants

 

[funkshen]

http://twitter.com/wikipediawtf

fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck

 

[tywebb]

Apparently Google's Home page and even Facebook might protest against SOPA and PIPA.

Google's protest is only on their US site at https://www.google.com/landing/takeaction

To get the US version of google, type http://www.google.com/ncr

 

[Lentern]

Whatever

 

[alstah]

What are the chances that Obama veto's it?

 

[Phoenix Fury]

Apparently both have been withdrawn from congress now.

 

[inJust]

Honestly, I think SOPA and PIPA is just a plow for the government to receive lobbying money. Think about it. Google/Facebook/Twitter/Wikipedia all earn millions in advertising any given day. So the risk of shutting their website down FOREVER is going to cost them billions in the long run. Wikipedia shutting down a day is already hurting them. But that's how much it means to wikipedia. So you think they aren't "lobbying" under the table? "Donations" and the like?
If the government threatens this, then all said companies would be forced to give them money to "influence" them not to do so. Obviously they won't do it. Most of congress rally their supporters on Fb/Twitter and probably have google as their homepage.

Trust me, they're just rallying for lobbyist money. They won't actually go through with it.

 

[inJust]

It's just a scare, so they would get money. I thought you guys would know how 'bought' both congress and the senate are. I feel quite lucky to be living in Australia. At least our corruption isn't that transparent.

 

[Aliyas]

If it actually passed (although I highly doubt it will, plus I was told many of the key players are dropping support) then the world will be thrown into complete chaos. People won't take it lying down.

 

[Phoenix Fury]

If it actually passed (although I highly doubt it will, plus I was told many of the key players are dropping support) then the world will be thrown into complete chaos. People won't take it lying down.

Pretty sure they would, people are terribly subservient and passive/apathetic shitcunts.

 

[inJust]

Pretty sure they would, people are terribly subservient and passive/apathetic shitcunts.

Civil disobedience is the most effective weapon. Look at OWS. People are starting to dislike the corporations.

 

[abbeyroad]

you talk about it like it's a recent thing. mnc are so anti competitive that even some capitalists dislike them.

 

[inJust]

Corporations as in Banking Firms etc.

 

[Lolsmith]

you talk about it like it's a recent thing. mnc are so anti competitive that even some capitalists dislike them.

yeah they've put through/attempted this (SOPA-esque nonsense) a few times before

 

[Lolsmith]

Civil disobedience is the most effective weapon. Look at OWS. People are starting to dislike the corporations.

yeah and all the good they did

 

[inJust]

yeah and all the good they did

Things take time. Civil rights movement took years

 

[Lolsmith]

Yeah except they had dedicated people that actually knew what they were complaining about

the OWS guys are basically the Hippies from that South Park episode