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I support SOPA. Everyday millions of Americans are pirating or streaming content that they do not have the rights to and this needs to be stopped because billions of dollars and millions of jobs are at stake. We need laws to fight this. Congress is finally doing something right.
I support SOPA. Everyday millions of Americans are pirating or streaming content that they do not have the rights to and this needs to be stopped because billions of dollars and millions of jobs are at stake. We need laws to fight this. Congress is finally doing something right.
There's already laws against this and people are being caught and prosecuted. What more do you think you're going to get with this that isn't on the books today ?
People need to start waking up and looking at legislation like SOPA in a larger societal context. When social unrest increases, governments throughout history have looked to create police states and restrict personal liberties. It should be no secret by now that we are exponentially losing our Constitutional rights.
SOPA and Freedom of Speech, the failed false flag event of Operation Fast and Furious and the Second Amendment, and the NDAA and the destruction of the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments. This is no coincidence that we are seeing all of these forms of societal controls come out at once.
What exactly does this have to do with controlling the internet.
The Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA), also known as H.R.3261, is a bill that was introduced in the United States House of Representatives on October 26, 2011, by Representative Lamar Smith (R-TX) and a bipartisan group of 12 initial co-sponsors. The bill expands the ability of U.S. law enforcement and copyright holders to fight online trafficking in copyrighted intellectual property and counterfeit goods.[2] Now before the House Judiciary Committee, it builds on the similar PRO-IP Act of 2008 and the corresponding Senate bill, the Protect IP Act.[3]
The bill would allow the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), as well as copyright holders, to seek court orders against websites accused of enabling or facilitating copyright infringement. Depending on who requests the court orders, the actions could include barring online advertising networks and payment facilitators such as PayPal from doing business with the infringing website; barring search engines from linking to such sites and requiring Internet service providers to block access to such sites. The bill would make unauthorized streaming of copyrighted content a felony. The bill also gives immunity to Internet services that voluntarily take action against websites dedicated to infringement, while making liable for damages any copyright holder who knowingly misrepresents that a website is dedicated to infringement
I don't have time to find it right now but supposedly the bill also contains something about blocking access to information from other countries.
LOL..look at who gets money from the corporates backing this bill..Harry Reid is the big winner here with having raked in over $1 million from these companies:
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