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SOPA AND PIPA

There is a bill rapidly working its way through both houses of congress that, if it becomes law, would empower governments and corporations to shut down websites such as this one without due process, according to opponents of the bills that I trust.  I haven’t yet studied the bills myself, which is my usual custom before bringing a concern to you, MMM readers.

The opposition to the “Stop Online Priracy Act” (HR 3261) and the “Protect IP Act” (S 968) have alarmed me enough to bring the conversation to MMM before doing my own research so that we can learn about it together.

PROTECT IP / SOPA Breaks The Internet from Fight for the Future on Vimeo.

 

 

So far among the New Jersey congressional delegation, only U.S. Senator Robert Menendez has taken a postion of the bill, according to propublica.org .  Menendez is for the bill, so its a pretty good bet that it is a threat to freedom.

Craigslist has quite a few links with more information about the bills, including who is for it and who is against it.

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Posted: January 17th, 2012 | Author: | Filed under: Freedom, Media | Tags: , | 5 Comments »

5 Comments on “SOPA AND PIPA”

  1. Chris said at 5:00 pm on January 17th, 2012:

    What’s ridiculous is that a lot of GOP Senators and Reps supported the bill. It’s proof that it’s not only the Dems who vote on a bill without reading it. All the GOP supporters of these bills voted against “net neutrality”, but this time their staff (or lobbyists, or whoever tells them how to vote) forgot to tell them that it’s all part of the same Big Government plan to take over the Internet. It’s funny to see how some of them just had an epiphany, and now are all of a sudden against the bills.

  2. Close the Shop, Art said at 8:29 pm on January 17th, 2012:

    Put your money where your mouth is, Art. You should follow the lead of Wikipedia and other websites and protest SOPA and PIPA by shutting down this website for 24 hours starting at midnight.

    Popular Websites to Go Dark Over SOPA Controversy

  3. Lois said at 6:31 am on January 18th, 2012:

    Yikes. This thing is so big and so BAD makes you want to dive under the covers and stay there. This is the control-freaks in Washington on steroids.
    Yeh, Art—-if you were to take down this site for the day might get the attention of all us little guys in this area—-to see what we can do too: “….–if you let them.”

  4. lois said at 6:33 am on January 18th, 2012:

    —-how do we NOT let them???

  5. ArtGallagher said at 9:00 am on January 18th, 2012:

    @ Close the shop,

    Thank you for thinking that closing MMM would have an impact like closing wikipedia would have.

    Given the daily visitors MMM gets from Capitol Hill, I think MMM could have a bigger impact staying open.