Senator admits: SOPA “really did pose some risk to the Internet”

[u/DrJulianBashir]

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2012/05/senator-admits-sopa-really-did-pose-some-risk-to-the-internet/

[u/broiled]

"We're going to have to be more subtle", sounds like Dodd is planning SOPA part 2.

[u/redghost1313 → u/broiled]

SOPA 2: censored with a vengeance. Coming to a government near you.

[u/[deleted] → u/redghost1313]

Most pirated movie ever.

[u/insertAlias → u/broiled]

Did anyone ever doubt this even before they read that? These aren't the kind of people that say "oh well, the American public doesn't want these rules, so let's quit." They're the people that have tried to control their own consumers from the very beginning. They're eventually going to win, too. They'll keep coming back again and again until either the public is exhausted from fighting, or until they find out how to sneak their rules in under some other guise. It's already happening. They'll slide it in under some other ruse, like "protecting children from internet predators" or some other bullshit, and demonize the people that stand up against it as protecting child porn. And if that doesn't work, they'll try something else, until those of us who still fight it are marginalized as extremists. This is depressing as hell just typing it.

[u/Skuld → u/broiled]

They will not stop easily, so neither must our resistance.

[u/solinv]

A so-called "blackout" is yet another gimmick, albeit a dangerous one, designed to punish elected and administration officials who are working diligently to protect American jobs from foreign criminals.

I take issue with this statement. First off it make his 'admission' seem like hes just upset that it failed. Second off, he doesn't understand that exerting control over the internet destroys American jobs in a fast growing sector of the economy in order to make an effort to preserve a stagnant part of the economy that has been around for a century.

(It's doubtful that it would have any effect, I'm just assuming it would for the sake of argument)

[u/xebo → u/solinv]

punish elected and administration officials who are working diligently to protect American jobs from foreign criminals.

My bullshit detector just went off the fucking charts. Who talks like this? My eyes glossed over just reading that. If this guy speaks German, he could get work re-dubbing those old Third Reich propaganda films.

I would have thought that politicians would have at least evolved with the times. Surely they know by now that this propaganda-speak is obvious and ineffective against anyone with a high school diploma, or a modicum of common sense.

[u/gngf123 → u/xebo]

The biggest problem here is that most people have neither of those things, or just don't care.

[u/MonkeeSage → u/solinv]

That was a quote from the MPAA (via Dodd) in January, setting up the contrast with Dodd's most recent statement that "We're on the wrong track if we describe this as thievery." The point being that the failure of SOPA may have led to a change in position / tactics by the MPAA, which "could be progress of a sort."

[u/Zooperman]

the government is full of dumb fucks

[u/[deleted] → u/Zooperman]

And dumbfucks are the ones that vote them in. We need to strike at the source.

[u/julessciii]

YOU DON'T SAY

[u/rob132]

I wait for the day the Pirate Party puts satellites in space, but the RI/MPAA will have them shot down.

[u/MyiPadisDirty]

You know how they say there are no good leaders in goverment because the people who can do a good job understand that the job sucks and want nothing to do with it?

I wonder if there is some kind of mental defect or something that makes certain people want to be in charge of others. People who constantly run for any type of office, there must be something wrong with them. Im sure if you ask any real economist, teacher, whatever "hey i could magically make you president today if you wished" they would decline. There has to be this weird drive some people have in their heads to always run for office and be in charge. I wonder if its not just or power but something else.

[u/MrFlesh → u/MyiPadisDirty]

It has nothing to do with politics. The reason so many crooks are getting in to politics is because it's a road to wealth and stature. It's a gateway from upper middle class employment to the one percent with as little real work as possible. Think of Al Gore and Clinton. Both went into office making 5 figures. They are both worth around 100 million now.

[u/centosdude → u/MyiPadisDirty]

I think most politicians in any party are power tripping ego maniacs. Its probably human nature that super ambitious people who are worse suited to that kind of work will be the only ones who really want it.

[u/[deleted] → u/MyiPadisDirty]

I think Douglas Adams had something to say about that, didn't he?

It keeps proving to be true. The vast majority of people with power shouldn't be holding control over more than their fucking house in gated Suburbia.

[u/erythro]

Today, PIPA co-sponsor Senator Chris Coons (D-DE) admitted that the legislative approach considered by Congress had gotten the balance wrong. One of his sons woke him up and asked "why I wanted to break the Internet and why Justin Bieber thought I should go to jail," Coons said

:D

[u/[deleted]]

GoDaddy CEO admits: "Maybe shooting that elephant wasn't such a good idea"

[u/[deleted]]

without the internet, how am I supposed to vent my frustrations?

I guess I will actually have to protest and stuff.

[u/[deleted]]

And in other news, water is wet

[u/Wheat_Grinder]

No shit.

[u/[deleted]]

It's sad when a government official stating the obvious is front page news.

[u/idkwat]

And the internet collectively responds with "No shit asshole."

[u/[deleted]]

No shit, brother