Why is it that when regular citizens express their voices to their elected representatives it is "terrorising", but when corporations like his own lean on Downing St and Congress, that is perfectly acceptable? Seems to me the controversy over SOPA and PIPA has revealed once and for all the scale of influence wealthy "special interest" groups have over politicians. Is anyone out there still defending Rupert and News Corp as being on the side of the people?
I'm beginning to think that SOPA might be a good thing. Services and sites hosted in the US will move to Europe.
If it means companies in Europe get more of the funny legal threats that the likes of Piratebay post on their site when received, I'm all for it!
Basically SOPA is America's admission to it's attitude that they feel they have the right to apply their own rules to the world and the world doesn't have the right to apply the same rules to America. What America wants America gets and while this has been shelved its only a temporary thing, by hook or by crook SOPA will get ratified. The ball will then be in the court of other nations (obviously not sweden as they are America's gimp) to stick the two fingers up to america when they start trying to pursue copyright infringement cases through SOPA on websites not hosted in the US
Little by little, day by day, the tracking software will increase, the governments will get more of the data, their analysis of that data will become ever more sophisticated, laws will change, sites will be shut down, hackers and downloaders will be scapegoated. The more we live our lives via technology, the more likely Orwell's 1984 will become a reality.
Your a ****ing right wing thatcherite. This is the stuff of neo-conservative dreams, should you not be throwing your backing behind it?
Pity they won't stick the two fingers up. When America get away with the censorship that SOPA and PIPA will bring it is only a matter of time before other governments do the same. If it is ratified and it spreads, I will cancel all of my subscriptions including the Internet and I will never buy DVDs/music/video games again.
If it does get ratified the rest of the world won't follow suit. They'll be too bust making money out of all the sites and services that rush out of the US. The US will cripple their own IT industry.
