SOPA - Stop Online Piracy Act

Surprised no thread about this yet. Very surprised so many huge companies have basically told the Feds to fuck off. Now we're threatening Spain if they don't jump on board?

http://yro.slashdot.org/story/12/01/05/1539230/us-threatens-spain-for-not-implementing-sopa-like-law

The US government are a bunch of wankers.

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sopa means soup where i come from

edit: therefore i automatically can't take it seriously

kinda late for a thread, really. everything's been said, the boycotts done, etc. at this point it either passes or it doesn't. most likely it doesn't.

rolling SOPA, anyone?

SOPA

  On 1/5/2012 at 6:09 PM, ruiagnelo said:

sopa means soup where i come from

 

edit: therefore i automatically can't take it seriously

in swedish, sopa is a term used for someone who's generally considered a failure (alt. "piece of trash").

  On 1/5/2012 at 6:14 PM, Jonas said:

Hackers will launch their own satellite eventually:

 

http://thehackernews...ellites-in.html

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iuwkzNjaPwc&feature=player_embedded

http://www.reddit.com/r/darknetplan/

http://www.reddit.com/r/darknet

http://www.reddit.com/r/meshnet

  On 1/5/2012 at 7:00 PM, iep said:

rolling SOPA, anyone?

 

SOPA

ROLLING SOPES

lordy, lordy, what in the name of kindness is that?

*conceals member*

It's a sope.

Stop Online Posting, Eat

SOPE.

roger that..

  On 1/5/2012 at 6:14 PM, Jonas said:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iuwkzNjaPwc&feature=player_embedded

nerds in lab coats are the future

  On 1/5/2012 at 5:59 PM, Rubin Farr said:

Surprised no thread about this yet

http://forum.watmm.com/topic/69994-anyone-hear-about-this-internet-censorship-bill/page__hl__censorship__fromsearch__1

The Internet is the wild west right now, it was a matter of time before the government realizes the internet is basically like another piece of land that they can rule over and tax the shit out of it.

please remember to contact your legislation, representatives, SOMEBODY about these absolutely batshit bills. they're PIPA in the Senate and SOPA in the house, and they both need to be crushed ASAP.

http://vimeo.com/31100268

http://arstechnica.c...dal-on-sopa.ars -- "Under voter pressure, congress is backpedaling (hard) on SOPA" -- this is the kind of story that shows what speaking up can do, so please take five minutes of your time to contact somebody and let them know this crap is unacceptable. silence is compliance in these situations.

http://americancensorship.org/ <--- easy way to get started helping

yeah, they're backpedaling... in so far that they're just going to propose another bill and hope it goes under our radar or doesn't make us as upset.

see: the OPEN act. same bullshit, cuter name. also, door in the face phenomenon. politics is so predictable.

same bullshit, cuter name indeed. people still need to speak up. feels good man, and staying quiet is seriously just saying "ok " to whatever the legislation does.

As much as I want to believe it will be quashed, we must when it's only a matter of time before and to the point that even Joyrex & mods might otherwise not even worth worrying about

Has it been shelved? http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/political-animal/2012_01/putting_sopa_on_a_shelf034765.php

yea.. shelved until it's not all over the media in a few weeks.. then they can sneakily sign it without much of a fuss

True, they were pretty slick sneaking in the NDAA over christmas..

If they censor the internet you guys would not have me nor my excelent posts.

Save the internet.

watmm should join the blackout tomorrow in protest!

Wikipedia is doing a blackout.

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:SOPA_initiative/Take_action